Anthony K. Webster

Anthony K. Webster is a linguistic anthropologist and professor of anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. He also has affiliations with the Native American and Indigenous Studies Program and the Department of Linguistics. His work focuses primarily on verbal artistry, especially among Navajos. He’s been doing this since 1997. He is the author of Explorations in Navajo Poetry and Poetics (2009), Intimate Grammars: An Ethnography of Navajo Poetry(2015), and The Sounds of Navajo Poetry: A Humanities of Speaking (2018). With Paul V. Kroskrity, he is co-editor of The Legacy of Dell Hymes: Ethnopoetics, Narrative Inequality, and Voice (2015). He lives in southern Illinois.

The Diné Reader The Diné Reader
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The Diné Reader

An Anthology of Navajo Literature

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Intimate Grammars

An Ethnography of Navajo Poetry

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