Prof. Ward Goodenough

1. Benjamin Blount said,

   June 17, 2013 @ 9:30 am
   Although I did not know Ward Goodenough personally, having met him only once at an American Anthropological Association meeting, his work on applying linguistics to anthropology strongly influenced a generation of anthropologists, beginning in the 1960s. Along with several other anthropologists, including Kim Romney, Roy D'Andrade, and Charles Frake, he redirected cultural anthropology from 50 years of culture-trait definitions to a linguistic-cognitive one, stating that culture is what one has to know in order to behave meaningfully within a society. It's still used, even by anthropologists who may not know its origin. The reference is: Goodenough, W. H. (1957). Cultural anthropology and linguistics. In P. Garvin (ed.), Report of the Seventh annual Round Table on Linguistics and Language Study. Georgetown University Monograph Series on Language and Linguistics, 9. Washington, DC: Georgetown University.

New Poem 6/14/13

     The waterfall you saw

The waterfall you saw today is gone
And wont cascade again. Come dawn
Tomorrow it’ll be morphed into a rill
Following a rocky route downhill,
Entering a lake or maybe a river.

The memorable bit of your leisure

Is only a photo. Not to worry, though;
If you should return tomorrow
There'll be another waterfall
At the same place. It will enthrall
Hikers tomorrow who rest in awe
Since the waterfall’s beauty has no flaws.

The cascade of water they admire
Will flow on, to the adjoining shire
To become an unidentifiable part
Of the same lake or river where your

Waterfall went yesterday. That’s where

And how beauty passes away here.