Sounding out ideas on language, vivid sensory words, and iconicity

Titling scholarly work in anthropology: Signifying significance, enregistering erudition

Betwixt and between: structure and anti-structure in titular rituals (>600 papers with “Betwixt & between” in title)

Homo Imitatens: Ludic pretense as a cover for essentialist tropes in anthropological titling (>2000 papers with “Homo + Latin Participle”, excluding sapiens & erectus)

Beyond Colons: Towards subtitles as sites for ponderous prolixity (>600 papers with “Beyond X: Towards Y” in title)

Equivocation by punctuation: (Re)imagining parentheses and un/certain slashes

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