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Book Out! Amapoualistle published in Mexico
Amapoualistle: Lecturas en Náhuatl de Hueyapan Morelos, a collection of texts in Nahuatl from Hueyapan, Morelos, and a short grammatical sketch and a vocabulary, was published by the State Government of Morelos in March, 2017. I collected and edited the texts, and wrote the grammar sketch and vocabulary, and compiled them for publication on the…
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Article in CLAR: Nahuatl in Colonial Guatemala
The article “Teotamachilizti: an analysis of the language in a Nahua sermon from colonial Guatemala“, which I co-authored with Julia Madajczak of the University of Warszaw is now out in Colonial Latin American Review. In the article we analyze the language of the document Teotamachilizti (link to the document here), which is written in an interesting…
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Cited in Copenhagen Post
The Copenhagen Post cited an opinion piece of mine, in which I argue that even the smallest languages, such as Mexican indigenous languages, may turn out to be relevant “Nerdy’s needed too “For a small country like Denmark, our main resource is our ability to navigate the world and interact with other people, and this…
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Postdoc at the University of Copenhagen
From July 1st 2016 I am a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Copenhagen in the Department of Crosscultural and Regional Studies. I will be working on a two-year research project called: Race, Nation, Language and Cultural Heritage in the Aztlán Borderlands, which is sponsored by a grant from the Danish Council for Independent Research. The project tries to…
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Irataba in American Anthropologist
My article is soon coming out in the september issue of American Anthropologist. It tells the story of how the article about the Mojave chief Irataba (1814-1874) was written on the online encyclopedia Wikipedia. On Wikipedia articles about Native people’s history are written mostly by non-experts who are also not members of the native groups…
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Blogpost on Aztec Writing
On the Nawatl Scholar blog, I published an analysis of the two main interpretations of the Aztec writing system. Aztec writing combined logograms (word signs that can be read in any language) with phonetic signs (that spell a specific language), but scholars are discussing whether the phonetic signs were strictly syllabic or whether they could be more…
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Page 99 challenge
My dissertation’s page 99 was featured at the Camp Anthropology Blog of Indiana University’s anthropology department. Here is a quote from page 99 of my 2016 dissertation “NAHUATL NATION: LANGUAGE REVITALIZATION AND INDIGENOUS RESURGENCE IN 21ST CENTURY MEXICO”. “Expropriation of indigenous resources has been, and continues to be, a basic element policy of Mexican national development…
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Article out in JLA
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