Bernard Perley
Associate Professor
Office: Sabin 329
Phone: (414) 229-6380
e-mail: bcperley@uwm.edu
Web Site: pantherfile.uwm.edu/bcperley/trickstercosmos
Degree(s):
Ph.D., Harvard University
Masters, Architecture, University of Texas
B.F.A., University of Texas
Research Interests:
Linguistic Anthropology - language ideology, language endangerment, and language revitalization; Visual Anthropology - graphic ethnography (theory and practice); American Indian Studies- Repatriation (tangible and intangible properties), Indigeneity (Aboriginality), and Self-determination as ethnocosmogenesis (semiotics, intertextuality, and intermediality).
Courses Taught:
Anthro 105: Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology
Anthro 314: American Indian Societies and Cultures
Anthro 361: Applications in Linguistic Anthropology
Anthro 540: Applications in Anthropology: Native American Oral Traditions
Anthro 641: Seminar in Anthropology - Repatriation: New Solutions, Old Problems
Anthro 804: Linguistic Anthropology
Anthro 999: Graduate Reading course: Anthropological Semiotics
Selected Exhibits:
2008. Journeys in Spirited Landscapes. An exhibit of graphic ethnographies displayed at the UWM Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee.
1998 to present. "Toqawiw Tokec." An exhibit of pastel drawings visualizing the Maliseet language as integral to the Maliseet landscape. Currently on display in The Hall of the North American Indian at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge.
Selected Publications:
2012. Silence Before the Void: Language Extinction, Maliseet Storytelling, and the Semiotics of Survival. Invited chapter for the edited volume Telling Stories in the Face of Danger: Language Renewal in Native American Communities. Paul V. Kroskrity ed. University of Oklahoma Press. Norman.
2012. Zombie Linguistics: Experts, Endangered Languages and the Curse of Undead Voices. Anthropological Forum, 22(2): 133-149.
2012. Last Words, Final Thoughts: Collateral Extinctions in Maliseet Language Death. Invited chapter for the edited volume The Anthropology of Extinction: Essays on Culture and Species Death. Genese Sodikoff ed. Indiana University Press. Bloomington.
2011. Managing Language as an Integrated Cultural Resource. Invited chapter for the edited volume Companion to Cultural Resource Management. Thomas F. King ed. Blackwell. Malden.
2011. Defying Maliseet Language Death: Emergent Vitalities of Language, Culture, and Identity in Eastern Canada. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. Nebraska Press Listing
2009. Contingencies of Emergence: Planning Maliseet Language Ideologies. In Paul V. Kroskrity and Margaret Field (eds), Native American Language Ideologies: Language Beliefs, Practices and Struggles in Indian Country. University of Arizona Press.
2006. Aboriginality at Large: Varieties of Resistance in Maliseet Language Instruction. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, 13: 187-208.
2005. Ambiguous Esteem: Bibles in Dead Language. In Objects of Everlasting Esteem, Lucy Fowler William, William S. Wierzbowski, Robert W. Preucel (eds). University of Pennsylvania Museum Publication.
2004. North American Tricksters. Encyclopedia of Religion, second edition, Macmillan Reference.
2004. Indians of the Northwest Coast Indian. Encyclopedia of Religion, second edition, Macmillan Reference.
2003. Language, Culture, and Landscape: Protecting Aboriginal "Deep Time" for Tomorrow. Protecting the Cultural and Natural Heritage in the Western Hemisphere: Lessons from the Past; Looking to the Future at Harvard University. http://projects.gsd.harvard.edu/heritage/
2000. Medicine Wheelers and Dealers. In Ronald Niezen (ed.), Spirit Wars: Native North American Religions in the Age of Nation Building, pp. 217-219. University of California Press: Berkeley, Los Angeles, London .
