Judith Pine

Title

Associate Professor

Department

Anthropology

Institution

Western Washington University

judy.pine@wwu.edu

Education

Ph.D. University of Washington

Research Interests

Linguistic Anthropology Indigenous Responses Language Maintenance

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Biography

I first encountered linguistic anthropology as an undergraduate at Kansas State University, where I took the introductory course and was immediately hooked. I was fortunate to have Prof. Harriet J. Ottenheimer as one of my instructors, whose textbook I currently use to teach ANTH 247 - Intro to Linguistic Anthropology. I grew up in a fairly small town in Kansas. Seattle is the largest city I have lived in for any extended period of time. In the summer of 2010, I lived in the city of Kunming, Yunnan, PRC for a few weeks, spurring yet another recalibration of my idea of “big city”. The city of Kunming, in 2009, had an estimated population of 6,800,000. Washington State reported an estimated population of 6,668,200 in the same year. This is a marvelous benefit of fieldwork, the opportunity to build new frames of reference and reconfigure past ones. My research has taken me to less densely populated areas. My primary research site is a small village , about 200 people, most ethnic Lahu and all are speakers of the Lahu language. Lahu “languaging” and language use by Lahu speakers is the focus of my on-going research. I am particularly interested in literacies and in Lahu language media, and I believe I may have one of the largest collections of Lahu language music videos in the US.

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Linguistic Anthropology Indigenous Responses Language Maintenance Globalization Borders Literacy Theory Endangerment American Anthropological Association Southeast Asia Writing Lesson Anthropological Ethics Language Media Whose Story St Century Language Standardization Linguist List Ethnic Minorities Linguistic Minorities Roundtable Discussion Transnational Flows Applied Anthropology Ethnic Studies Faculty Colloquium Media Consumption Native Peoples Washington Press Governance Reform British Columbia Asian Research Southeast Asian Studies

List of Publications (17)

In 2012

August 2012 "Lahu", Native Peoples of the World ed. Steven Danver. Mesa Verde Publishing: San Marcos, CA. revised, resubmitted "Writing Right: Language standardization and entextualization" in Pragmatics. revised, resubmitted "Christianity, modernity, and creativity: the construction of a Lahu Baptist identity", in The State and the Inscription of Modernity, John Marston, ed.
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In 2011

"Lahu Language Media: Transnational Flows, Identity and Borders", 11th International Conference on Thai Studies, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, July 26-28, 2011.
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"Technologizing and words: learning to stop worrying and love the digital", American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Nov 2011.
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"Modern Lahu : Lahu-language Media in the 21st Century", Center for Ethnic Studies and Development, Chiangmai University, Sep 7, 2011.
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Blommaert, Jan and Dong Jie (2011) Ethnographic Fieldwork: a beginners guide in Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, accepted, pending publication.
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"Anthropology of the institution : Learners as agents of change", a roundtable discussion including Prof. James Loucky and Prof. Kathleen Saunders, accepted for the Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, March 2011.
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In 2010

"Whose Story?: Lahu histories and Lahu identities", American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Nov 2010.
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In 2009

"Modern Viewers: Lahu media consumption and 21st century Lahu identity", presented October 30, 2009, Faculty Colloquium, Department of Anthropology, Western Washington University.
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"Writing right - language standardization and entextualization", American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Dec 2009.
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"Managing Modernity: 21st century Lahu Language Media in Thailand (and beyond)", presented April 7. 2009, International Lecture Series, Center for International Studies,
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In 2008

Reviews Heller, Monica. (2006) Linguistic Minorities and Modernity: a sociolinguistic ethnography in Linguist List 19.1934, 18 June 2008.
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2008 "Literacy, anthropological ethics, and the orthographic dilemma: analysis of a writing lesson" IN Culture and Development in Southeast Asia. David Wangsgard, ed. Silkworm Books: Chiangmai, Thailand.
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2008. "Landscapes of Literacy: The View from a Lahu Village" in Integration, Marginalization and Resistance: Ethnic Minorities of the Greater Mekong Subregion.
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In 2000

2000. "Lahu literacy and the possession of writing". SEASPAN: The Northwest Regional Consortium for Southeast Asian Studies. vXIII, n2. Winter 2000.
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In 1999

1999 "Lahu Writing/Writing Lahu: Literacy and the Possession of Writing" in Globalization and the Asian Economic Crisis: Indigenous Responses, Coping Strategies, and Governance Reform in Southeast Asia. Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia: Vancouver, Canada. pp 176-185.
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Prasit Leepreecha, Kwanchewan Buadaeng and Don McCaskill, eds. Silkworm Books: Chiangmai, Thailand.
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University of Washington Press: Seattle. in translation "Christianity, modernity, creativity: the construction of a Lahu Baptist Identity" in El Cristianismo en Perspectiva Global: Impacto y presencia en Asia, Oceania y las Americas. Carlos Mondragon, ed.
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