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Name:	Anthony  K. Webster
Institution:	Southern Illinois University
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Homepage:	http://www.siuc.edu/%7Eanthro/webster/index.html
State and/or Country:	IL USA
Linguistic Field(s):	Anthropological Linguistics
Subject Language(s):	Apache, Lipan Apache, Mescalero-Chiricahua
Language Family(ies):	Athapaskan
Selected Publications:	‘Ałk’idaa’ Mą’ii Jooldlosh, Jiní: Poetic Devices in Navajo Oral and Written Poetry. Anthropological Linguistics. 48(3): 233-265. On Speaking to him (Coyote): The Discourse Function of the yi- /bi- alternation in some Chiricahua Apache Narratives. Southwest Journal of Linguistics. 25(2): 143-160. From Hóyéé to Hajinei: On Some Implications of Feelingful Iconicity and Orthography in Navajo Poetry. Pragmatics. 2006. 16(4): 535-549. Keeping the Word: On Orality and Literacy (with a sideways glance at Navajo). Oral Tradition. 2006. 21(2): 295-324. The Mouse that Sucked: “Translating” a Navajo Poem. Studies in American Indian Literature. 2006. 18(1): 37-49. Coyote Poems: Navajo Poetry, Intertextuality, and Language Choice. American Indian Culture and Research Journal. 2004. 28(4): 69-91. Lisandro Mendez’s ‘Coyote and Deer’: On Reciprocity, Narrative Structures and Interaction. American Indian Quarterly. 1999. 23(1): 1-24. Sam Kenoi’s Coyote Stories: Rhetoric and Poetics in some Chiricahua Narratives. American Indian Culture and Research Journal. 1999. 23(1): 137-163. Articles to appear: A Note on Plains Apache Warpath Vocabulary. International Journal of American Linguistics. “To all the Former Cats and Stomps of the Navajo Nation:” Performance, the individual, and cultural poetic traditions. Language in Society.
Courses Taught:	Native Peoples of the Southwest Native American Verbal Art Descriptive Phonetics and Phonology Historical Linguistics Undergraduate Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology Graduate Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology
Dissertation Director * of:	Rhetorical Strategies and Political Gift Giving in the Orinoco Delta (Juan Rodriguez, Author)
Academic Paper Abstract:	"To all the former cats and stomps of the Navajo Nation:" Performance, the individual, and cultural poetic traditions
* This information has been submitted by the dissertation author.
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