Piers Kelly

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Author of π˜›π˜©π˜¦ π˜“π˜’π˜΄π˜΅ π˜“π˜’π˜―π˜¨π˜Άπ˜’π˜¨π˜¦ 𝘰𝘯 𝘌𝘒𝘳𝘡𝘩 (Oxford, 2022)
Research: graphic codes in Southeast Asia, West Africa, and Australia.
Websitehttps://bravenewwords.info/
Websitehttps://messagesticks.com.au/
Piers KellyOct 17, 2024

Striking details you find in museum files that don't make it into official public catalogues. Accompanying a Samoan kava bowl in a US collection:

"The night before Woodworth left the island he called to say good bye to chief and remarked that he wished the chief would purchase for him a certain kava bowl seen in the house of a subject. The chief told Woodworth he would have it stolen for him. The bowl was sent aboard steamer next morning as it was about to sail"

Piers KellySep 18, 2024
#academicimpact
Piers KellyAug 29, 2024
@Tara hey! Followed you back the moment I saw you are a tea drinker who likes country music. Howdy comrade 😝
Piers KellyAug 23, 2024
Today I learned that honey bees have a concept of zero
Piers KellyMay 9, 2024
Very early Vai manuscripts shared by Charles Riley https://catalogingafricana.wordpress.com/2024/05/08/virtualizing-a-small-collection-of-19th-century-vai-manuscripts/
Virtualizing a small collection of 19th century Vai manuscripts

I presented on a select group of 19th century Vai manuscripts to a meeting of the Liberian Studies Association late last month. Here are the sample images I used, extracted in some cases from large…

Cataloging Africana
Piers KellyMay 7, 2024
Uwe Edelheid @dietweetereiMay 7, 2024

I finally managed to read The Last Language On Earth by @pierskelly cover to cover. Most fascinating read about one intriguing case of human linguistic creativity!

Eskaya is a created script and language of the Philippines. The author succeeds in disentangling the complex historical and ideological context of Eskaya while staying respectful to the views and ideas of its users

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-last-language-on-earth-9780197509913?cc=de&lang=en&

Piers KellyMay 5, 2024
quixoteMay 3, 2024
Finally found it. The cartoon I saw that summarizes my feeling about the Hamas-Netanyahu disaster:
Piers KellyApr 21, 2024

Hendrik Heinze interviewed me about my book for Bayern 2.

A very clear synopsis!

It's in German/English and you can listen to it here: https://www.br.de/radio/bayern2/sendungen/sozusagen/eskayan-oder-die-letzte-sprache-der-welt-100.html

Sozusagen: Eskayan - oder: Die letzte Sprache der Welt | BR.de

Eine Philippinen-Insel, ein Dschungelvolk, eine rΓ€tselhafte Plansprache: Eskayan. Mit uns spricht der australische Anthropologe und Linguist Piers Kelly - der seit 20 Jahren zu verstehen versucht, wie ein Volk, in dem die wenigsten schreiben und lesen konnten, zu einer eigenen, aufwΓ€ndig konstruierten Sprache kam, mit eigenem Vokabular und vor allem: eigener Schrift. (Lesetipp: Piers Kelly - "The last language on earth", Oxford University Press)

Piers KellyApr 18, 2024
Staff Chief of JointsApr 18, 2024
Can't. That's the day the teddy bears have their picnic.
Piers KellyApr 5, 2024
Ele Willoughby, PhDApr 5, 2024

New edition of Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179), surrounded by plants and a mineral she touted as medical treatments, her invented alphabet and model of the universe, on lovely ivory Japanese washi paper. Her writings preserve not only her own knowledge and theories but the nature of institutional medicine and folk healing of her day (which she deftly combined). 🧡1/2

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