Faculty Profiles

 

Bambi Schieffelin

Professor of Anthropology
B.S. 1967, M.A. 1977, Ph.D. 1979, Columbia.

Research interests include linguistic anthropology, language ideology, literacy, language socialization, childhood, missionization, Papua New Guinea, Caribbean.

Publications
“Marking time: The dichotomizing discourse of multiple temporalities.” Current Anthropology, 43: 5-17. 2002.

“Introducing Kaluli Literacy: A Chronology of Influences. In Regimes of Language, P. Kroskrity, ed. Santa Fe: SAR. 2000.

"The 'Real' Haitian Creole: Ideology, Metalinguistics, and Orthographic Choice." In Language Ideologies: Practice and Theory, co-edited with K. Woolard and P. Kroskrity. New York: Oxford University Press. 1998.

"Language Ideology," co-authored with K. Woolard. Annual Review of Anthropology 23. 1994.

The Give and Take of Everyday Life: Language Socialization of Kaluli Children. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1990.