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I am a cultural anthropologist. I study families and households and anything related to them or the concerns of the people in them. I also study the diverse and endlessly fascinating world of ballroom dance.
While I share the common anthropological fascination with the exotic, my research interests are currently well satisfied by studying in my native culture.
I have a graduate background in linguistics and suffer from a lifelong obsessive fascination with language.
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Just Call Me Stefan
Originally posted on Beautiful Girl In The Ballroom:
? ? It all started because I was fortunate enough to be at a studio that offered coaching and group classes with the famous Shirley Ballas. I mean, my dancing may not… -
Finding Fast-Fading Footprints
Click the link to read my recent article (Discover Magazine, Oct. 2014) about the 900,00 year old human (homo antecessor) footprints found by Chris Stringer’s research team in May of 2013. These are the oldest hominid footprints ever to have… Read More ›
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What does it mean to talk about a “Living Wage?”
The subject of a living wage comes up a lot in the news, in political debates, and in social discourses of all kinds lately. Politicians throw it around as if they have a clue what it means, which always irks… Read More ›
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Linguistic exogamy, anyone?
Linguistic exogamy, anyone?.
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Linguistic exogamy, anyone?
Babel issue 8 August 2014 Fish People I am pleased to share with you my piece on Jean Jackson’s seminal research on the Tukanoan people of the Columbian Vaupés (above), featured in the August 2014 issue of Babel, the… Read More ›
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Real Bodies in Real Life
Real Bodies in Real Life.
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Real Bodies in Real Life
In 1928 Evans Pritchard observed, “In ethnological accounts the dance is usually given a place quite unworthy of its social importance. It is often viewed as an independent activity and is described without reference to its contextual setting in native… Read More ›
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Oldest Hominin Footprints Found Outside of Africa
Originally posted on Anthropology.net:
The Laetoli hominin footprints have finally met their match. A group of footprints dating between 850,000 and 950,000 years ago were reported in coastal Happisburgh, the United Kingdom, as seen in a publication in Plos… -
A New Year at Home
It’s warming up (20’s!) as I get ready to publish this post, but with the wind chill these past few days hovering around 0° F, it has seemed an ideal time to crawl into my hibernaculum and do some intense… Read More ›
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Review of Planet Word
Waterman Planet Word Review Happy New Year! Sharing my review of J.P. Davidson’s Planet Word (above) from the November Issue of Babel: the language magazine http://www.babelzine.com/ . I’m thrilled to be published in Babel as I am an original subscriber… Read More ›