Comments on: Savage Minds Around the Web

By: Dustin (Oneman)

Dustin (Oneman) — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:52:15 +0000

J: The strikethrough happens when you use double-dashes. This stie uses Textile instead of HTML in comments, and Textile reads double-dashes as a strikethrough. I’ve edited your comment to remove the strikethrough.

By: J. Kirkpatrick

J. Kirkpatrick — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:21:55 +0000

How did part of my comment get struck out? I didn’t do it—JK

By: J. Kirkpatrick

J. Kirkpatrick — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:20:36 +0000

Daniel Goldberg wrote, calling for medical anthros instead of ethicists in medical settings: “I have often wondered how different my local world would be if it were anthropologists in charge of designing, implementing, and teaching cultural humility, instead of the relatively thin but conventionally dominant and poorly named “cultural competence.”
Cultural comopetence, eh? Now there’s a bureaucratic term for ya.

How about the oft-used term “compliance”, or “compliant” – used to refer to patients who take/follow orders and don’t raise objections. The power hegemony implicit in this term “compliant” just makes my blood boil. It was once used of myself when I had home health people coming over because of a broken arm. I thought I was just being polite and cooperative…then I saw what one wrote in her record book – that I was “compliant.” Argh. Whatever happened to the term “cooperative”, which implies negotiation, at least?

By: Daniel S. Goldberg

Daniel S. Goldberg — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:57:50 +0000

Thanks for the link! Comments welcome, of course . . .

By: jay sosa

jay sosa — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:59:05 +0000

Thanks, Steve, for your correction. Never a quibble too small for the comments.

By: MTBradley

MTBradley — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 05:00:23 +0000

The week before the first conference paper I ever gave (as an undergraduate, in 2002) I noticed Prof. Walker’s name among the recipients of the before-the-conference group e-mail and sent him a message asking him if he might be able to make it to my paper. During my paper—part of the final panel on the final day—he was indeed right there in the front row. I found him in the lobby afterwards and asked what he had thought of my presentation. He apologized that he had been able to take in very little of it as he had been functionally deaf for some time. So, in my limited interaction with him, he was a very good person in addition to being a very good scholar.

By: Jason Jackson

Jason Jackson — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:52:30 +0000

Although I did not know him, I can observe that Professor Walker was a major scholar whose studies extended beyond the Cherokee to encompass the languages and culture histories of other Southeastern U.S. native peoples as well. He pursued significant work in this field during the period of its post-war ebb. The recent revival of this research area owes a debt to his efforts. He was also well-regarded by many people in Indian Country.

By: Steve Chrisomalis

Steve Chrisomalis — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:10:55 +0000

Thanks for the link! A minor quibble: Walker’s main area of expertise was indigenous literacy in the Americas, most specifically the Cherokee syllabary, but he actually wrote very little about the Cherokee written numerals.