This review sketches a linguistic anthropology of images. While linguistic anthropology has
not historically focalized images as a central theoretical object of concern, linguistic …

Investigating the communicative practices of indigenous Santali speakers in eastern India,
Nishaant Choksi examines the overlooked role of script in regional movements for autonomy …

This thesis investigates the customary law of the Santals community in Bangladesh.
Following the ethnographic method, this study aims to explore the customary laws of the …

In the face of settler colonial expansion, contemporary environmental change, and
contradictory revitalization practices, language activists in Napo, Ecuador are increasingly …

The Brahmic family of scripts is used to record some of the most spoken languages in the
world and is arguably the most diverse family of writing systems. In this work, we present …

In this essay, we reconsider the topic of “Linguistic Diversity in South Asia”—the title of the
landmark 1960 volume edited by Charles Ferguson and John Gumperz—from the …

Abstract Santali is an Austro-Asiatic language spoken throughout eastern India, Nepal, and
Bangladesh. It is currently written in multiple scripts, including a Roman script devised by …

On 13 August 2015, it was revealed that Rahul Gandhi, at that time vicepresident of the
Indian National Congress (INC), used notes in Hindi written in Roman script and not Modern …

This article draws on Judith T. Irvine's over two decades of work on ideologies of
honorification to investigate and analyze the historical transformation of the use of the dual …

This chapter investigates the complicated phenomena of religious conversion among Orang
Asli and Santal indigenous groups, focusing on the ethical and practical issues it presents to …