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About
Rebecca Wood is a linguistic anthropologist whose research focuses on understanding community language reclamation efforts in indigenous communities. More specifically, she is interested in the ways language embodies important sociocultural information and provides insight into how cultural groups are dealing with changing environments through the theoretical approaches of language socialization, language ideologies, and semiotics.
Other research interests include the political economy of outdoor sport, focusing on inequality, the politics of land use, and gender from an ethnographic perspective.
Education
- PhD, Linguistic Anthropology, University of Montana
- MA, Linguistics, University of Montana
- BA, Anthropology, University of Montana
Selected Publications
- Wood, Rebecca. 2017. "The Power of Language: Indexicality and the Sociocultural Environment." Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford 9 (1): 119-133.
- Lyon, John and Rebecca Greene-Wood. 2007. Lawrence Nicodemus’s Coeur d’Alene Dictionary in Root Format. University of Montana Occasional Papers in Linguistics, 20. Missoula: UMOPL Linguistics Laboratory.
Courses Taught
- ANTH 1040: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
- ANTH 2800: The Nature of Language
- ANTH 3500: Ethnographic Methods and Theory
- ANTH 3660: Applied Community Studies
- ANTH 3800: Special Topics in Linguistic Anthropology
- ANTH 3810: Language, Culture, and Society
- ANTH 3820: Native American Languages and Cultures
- ANTH 3830: Language and Discrimination
- ANTH 4450: Ethnography of Sport
- ANTH 4980: Senior Seminar
- Theme: Anthropology and You
- Theme: People and Place