Adam Harr


Adam Harr Entered 2000 banjer1@yahoo.com	Adam with his teacher Yohannes Tuka Loba, learning to tell the tale of Kolo Mbono No'o Loge Losu ("Pointy-Head and Pointy-Butt")
Linguistic Anthropology Regional focus: Eastern Indonesia I consider anthropology to be the comprehensive study of human realities - those aspects of the world, from global currencies to global warming, that are contingent on people's interactions and beliefs. Within this necessarily fragmented field of inquiry, my general interest is in the relationship between human realities and human languages. How does language in all its analyzed forms - phonemes, grammatical categories, metaphors, speech acts, contextual frames, sociolinguistic stereotypes, etc. - come to feel so real? And how do these forms of language shape the realities we live? I am currently (2006) doing dissertation research in central Flores with speakers of the Lio language, investigating how Lio sociocosmic categories are reflected in and realized through ritually regimented verbal performances. I am finding it to be very difficult and very rewarding work.

Entered 2000
banjer1@yahoo.com

Adam with his teacher Yohannes Tuka Loba, learning to tell the tale of Kolo Mbono No'o Loge Losu ("Pointy-Head and Pointy-Butt")

Linguistic Anthropology

Regional focus: Eastern Indonesia

I consider anthropology to be the comprehensive study of human realities - those aspects of the world, from global currencies to global warming, that are contingent on people's interactions and beliefs. Within this necessarily fragmented field of inquiry, my general interest is in the relationship between human realities and human languages. How does language in all its analyzed forms - phonemes, grammatical categories, metaphors, speech acts, contextual frames, sociolinguistic stereotypes, etc. - come to feel so real? And how do these forms of language shape the realities we live?

I am currently (2006) doing dissertation research in central Flores with speakers of the Lio language, investigating how Lio sociocosmic categories are reflected in and realized through ritually regimented verbal performances. I am finding it to be very difficult and very rewarding work.