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...Chan is of the post-post-modern breed of iconoclasts. Whereas the original version wanted the utter annihilation of authority, Chan and his tribe just want to spin it around until it falls on its ass. The Vietnam generation has aged out of vogue, and it turns out that anarchy is unpleasant. Chaos, however...
After four years spent making the short walk between Eliot House and Harvard Yard each morning, Cristiana Strava ’09 will spend her next year trekking across the Sahara Desert with a semi-nomadic tribe in Morocco. Strava is one of the six seniors who received the Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Fellowship for a year of post-graduate exploration of another culture. The six senior recipients, chosen from among 87 applicants, include Strava, Lauren E. Brants, Wilmarie Cidre, Nicholas A. Rizzo, Nora A. Sluzas, and Brittan Smith.Each recipient will receive $18,000 to travel abroad to a country...
...children - were slaughtered. This much we know at the outset of Shadows at Dawn, by Brown University historian Karl Jacoby. We also know who these attackers were, for the most part: an unlikely alliance of white settlers, Spanish-speaking landholders known as vecinos and members of an opposing tribe, the Tohono O'odham. But rather than tie these four groups' tales together into a standard history of what became known as the Camp Grant Massacre - one of the most brutal and sensational acts in the American Southwest of the late 19th century - Jacoby breaks them out separately, to better unpack...
...within the linguistic community—has been far from tranquil. And while Everett and this book are gaining national attention for the unique nature of his discoveries, he’s also raising quite a few eyebrows in the world of academia. The Pirahã are a small tribe of Amazonian indigenous people who dwell on the banks of the Maici River, a tributary of the Madeira River in Northwest Brazil. Though they have some contact with the outside world through traders on the river, they speak a very inaccessible, tonal language, and apparently haven’t changed...
...time reveling in his passion for sentences and structure. The Pirahãs language contains just eight consonants and three vowels; their repetitive staccato sounds like indecipherable gibberish to just about everyone else in the world except for Everett. Until he came along, no one outside of the tribe had ever become fluent in Pirahã. A few years ago, Everett made waves in the linguistics world when he challenged Noam Chomsky's idea that "recursion" - the act of combining two separate thoughts into a single sentence - was a universal trait found in all world languages. The Pirah...