About Piers Kelly

Piers Kelly is a linguistic anthropologist at the University of New England, Australia

Piers Kelly is a linguistic anthropologist at the University of New England, Australia

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NBN Episodes hosted by Piers:

Alexandra Roginski, "Science and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Tasman World: Popular Phrenology in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

September 4, 2023

Science and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Tasman World

Alexandra Roginski
Hosted by Piers Kelly

The contentious science of phrenology once promised insight into character and intellect through external ‘reading’ of the head. In the transforming…

"Being Your Bestest Anthropologist: A Guide to Unlocking Your Neat Self" (Collegeville Press, 2021)

October 29, 2021

Being Your Bestest Anthropologist

The Anthropology Department
Hosted by Piers Kelly

A note from the editor: This book is satire, as is the interview. If you do not appreciate satire, you would be well served not to read the book or li…

Maïa Ponsonnet, "Difference and Repetition in Language Shift to a Creole: The Expression of Emotions" (Routledge, 2019)

August 12, 2021

Difference and Repetition in Language Shift to a Creole

Maïa Ponsonnet
Hosted by Piers Kelly

In today’s global commerce and communication, linguistic diversity is in steady decline across the world as speakers of smaller languages adopt domina…