Dr. James Stanlaw
Professor of Anthropology
- About
- Education
- Awards & Honors
- Selected Research
Current Courses
ANT 185.003 Cultures Of The World: An Introduction To Cultural & Linguistic Anthropology
ANT 379.001 Guns, God, and Gynecology: Symbols In American Culture
ANT 479.001 Guns, God, and Gynecology: Symbols In American Culture
ANT 287.001 Independent Study In Anthropology
ANT 400.005 Independent Study In Anthropology
ANT 398.001 Professional Practice: Research Apprenticeship Anthropology
Research Interests & Areas
linguistic anthropology, cognition, language and culture contact, popular culture, Japan, Southeast Asia, Co-Editor of Pan-Japan.
Ph D Anthropology/Linguistics
University of Illinois
Urabana-Champaign
This year I was also flattered to be chosen for an Illinois State University 2015 Impact Award
2015
Grants and Contracts
editor-in-chief
James Stanlaw.
Wiley. August 2013 - 2016
Book Review
Review of “Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty’s Trek Across the Pacific” by Christine R. Yano.
James Stanlaw.
(2014), 41, 611-613, American Ethnologist
review of English in Asian Popular Culture
James Stanlaw.
(2012), 28, xii + 275, Hong Kong University Press, World Englihses
Book, Authored
Turkish translation of Language, Culture, and Society, 7th ed. by James Stanlaw, Nobuko Adachi, Zdenek Salzmann,
James Stanlaw, Nobuko Adachi, Zdenek Salzmann.
(2023), 500, Mak Grup Medya Pro. Rek. Yay. A.S.
“I’m Married to Your Company!:” Everyday Voices of Japanese Women [Onna no Serifu 12
Masako Ito, Nobuko Adachi, James Stanlaw.
(2007), Rowman & Littlefield
Book, Chapter
Americanist Transcription systems
James Stanlaw.
(2020), 1, 28-36, The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology
Benjamin Lee Whorf
James Stanlaw.
(2020), 4, 1920-194, The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology, Wiley Blackwell
Bronislaw Malinowsi
James Stanlaw.
(2020), 1, 1317-1321, The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology, Wiley Blackwell
Chomsky and the Chomskyan tradition vs. linguistic anthropology
James Stanlaw.
(2020), 1, 144-156, The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology
Cognitive Anthropology
James Stanlaw.
(2020), 1, 201-226, The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology
Color and Color Nomenclature
James Stanlaw.
(2020), 1, 240-253, The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology
Edward Sapir
James Stanlaw.
(2020), 4, 1706-1711, The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology, Wiley Blackwell
Ferdinand de Saussure
James Stanlaw.
(2020), 4, 1711-1715, The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology, Wiley Blackwell
Ideophones
James Stanlaw.
(2020), 2, 663-669, The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology, Wiley Blackwell
Marking and Markedness
James Stanlaw.
(2020), 3, 1321-1336, The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology, Wiley Blackwell
Phonemics
James Stanlaw.
(2020), 3, 1554-1564, The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology
Structuralism
James Stanlaw.
(2020), 4, 1812-1829, The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology, Wiley
Theoretical Aspects of Non-human Primates and Language,
James Stanlaw.
(2020), 1462-1466, The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology, Wiley Blackwell
language, sexuality, and desire
James Stanlaw.
(2020), 3, 1085-1096, The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology
English In Japanese Slang
James Stanlaw.
(2013), Slang, Oxford
Japanese Language: Change in -19-20th Centuries
James Stanlaw.
(2013), 1, 196-199, Japan at War: An Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO
Franz Boas
James Stanlaw.
1, 98-105, The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology, Wiley Blackwell
Book, Edited
The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthtropology
James Stanlaw.
(2020), 2000, Wiley Blackwell
Journal Article
Saigo Takamori
James Stanlaw.
ABC-CLIO, 1 (USA), 350-352, (2013)
Sakamoto Ryoma
James Stanlaw.
ABC-CLIO, 1 (1), 354-356, (2013)
Japanese Language: Change in 6-8th Centuries
James Stanlaw.
ABC-CLIO, 1 (978-1598847413), 199-203, (2012)
Newsletter
Jacklyn Weier, Ethan Ingram, and James Stanlaw. “How to CSAS (or, The ‘Do as I Say, Not as I Do’ Collection).
Jacklyn Weier, Ethan Ingram, James Ethan Stanlaw.
Central States Anthropological Society Bulletin Vol. 53, No. 1 (Spring, 2018), 4, (2018)
Other
SLA Business Meeting Report
James Stanlaw.
Anthropology News, 53 (2), 48-49, (2012)
Presentations
“Chico Will Scold You!”: Sound Symbolism, Folk Theories of Language, and Japanese-Pop-Culture.”
James Stanlaw.
Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs (MCAA 2023, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, October 1, 2023
“New Asians in New Worlds: Crossing Old Boundaries and Old Borders”
James Stanlaw.
72nd Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs (MCAA 2023, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champai, September 29, 2023
discussant on “Visible and Invisible Racial Minorities in Response Social and Political Contexts,
James Stanlaw.
2023 Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropolog, Cincinnati, OH., April 1, 2023
Visible and Invisible Racial Minorities in Response Social and Political Contexts,
James Stanlaw.
83rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology., Cincinnati, Ohio, April 1, 2023
“Pronoun Problems and Pronoun Envy.”
James Stanlaw.
2023 Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology,, Cincinnati, OH., March 28, 2023
America Meets East Asia: Mayonnaise and Tabasco in the Sushi
Nobuko Adachi, James M Stanlaw.
Breaking Bread in McLean County, https://us02web.zoom.us/w/82917293113?tk=l1woZmRZR_ttexSGbfyTjiPXJxLMOp9ijI1ydj1pjc8.DQMAAAATTkF8ORZ2X0hjTjE5WFNXQ2JET2hHUEM4TzJBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA&pwd=VkJFZE8rVHpLRFA2TnpaVFhiZmozUT09, October 12, 2021
“Doing a Little of This and a Little of That: How Small Things Can Lead to Big Results.” Paper presented at the invited session “Stimulating Undergraduate Anthropology
James Stanlaw.
117th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. November 16, 2018. San Jose, CA., . San Jose, CA., November 16, 2018
The Mandolin in America: The Ethnography of an Instrument and Its Revival.”
James Stanlaw.
2018 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Chapter of the Society of Ethnomusicolog, Indiana University, Bloomington. IN., April 21, 2018
Comments and Closing Summary and Remarks,
James Stanlaw.
Two Day Mini-Conference on Social, Ethnic, and Racial Boundaries on Campus and Community in the 21st Century, ISU, February 10, 2018
“Workshop: Sanctuary Resolutions on Cities and Campuses”
James Stanlaw.
Two Day Mini-Conference on Social, Ethnic, and Racial Boundaries on Campus and Community in the 21st Century, Normal, IL, February 10, 2018
“Guns, Policing, and Weapons: Cross-cultural Perspectives on Japan and America Roundtable” (“The Symbolism of the AR-17”).
James Stanlaw.
Two Day Mini-Conference on Social, Ethnic, and Racial Boundaries on Campus and Community in the 21st Century,, Normal, IL, February 9, 2018
The Donald and the Other: Language From the Street Corner to Main Street
James Stanlaw.
115th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC, November 30, 2017
Japanese Color Terms and Problems in Language, Culture, and Thought
James Stanlaw.
Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Norte Dame, IN, September 16, 2017
Comments on Writing and Script in Japanese Media
James Stanlaw.
15th International Conference of the European Association of Japanese Studies, Lisbon, Portugal, September 1, 2017
"Remember, Trump studied Anthropology, too!”: Where Did We Go Wrong?”
James Stanlaw.
96th Annual Meeting of the Central States Anthropological Society,, Lincoln, Nebraska, April 8, 2017
“From Maki(zushi) to Mac(Donalds) and Back: A Semiotic Look at the Development, Expansion, and Globalization of Japanese Sushi.”
James Stanlaw.
96th Annual Meeting of the Central States Anthropological Society, Lincoln, Nebraska, April 7, 2017
Discussant for the panel “Metaphors Large and Small: From the Social to the Political to the Physical”
James Stanlaw.
92nd Annual Meeting of the Central States Anthropological Society., aaanet.org, April 10, 2016
Mixing Mass Metaphors and Metaphors for Mass: A Linguistic Anthropological Look at the Animals in the Subatomic Zoo
James Stanlaw.
92nd Annual Meeting of the Central States Anthropological Society, aaanet.org, April 11, 2015
Japanese-Bluegrass: Creativity and Nostalgia in a Borrowed Imaginary Musical Genre.”
James Stanlaw.
91st Annual Meeting of the Central States Anthropological Society., www.aaanet.org, April 10, 2014
“Grades, Grants, and Grad School: Advice About Getting into Anthropology MA and Ph.D. Programs.”
James Stanlaw, Livia Stone, Abagail Stone.
91st Annual Meeting of the Central States Anthropological Society, Normal, IL, April 8, 2014
The Dynamics of the Presentation of Self Betwixt and Between Subcultures, Foreign and Domestic
James Stanlaw.
90th Annual Meeting of the Central States Anthropological Society, St. Louis, MO, April 5, 2013
The Dynamics of the Presentation of Self Betwixt and Between Subcultures, Foreign and Domestic
James Stanlaw.
90th Annual Meeting of the Central States Anthropological Society, St. Louis, MO, April 5, 2013
“Japanese Slang at the Borderlands of Identity.”
James Stanlaw.
90th Annual Meeting of the Central States Anthropological Society, aaanet.org, April 5, 2013
Some Trends in Japanese Slang
James Stanlaw.
International conference SLANG NOW 2012, UK, September, 2012