Bernard C Perley

Biographic Data

ID99755
NAMEBernard C Perley
GIVEN NAMESBernard C
FAMILY NAMEPerley
SIGNATUREPERLEY B C
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
ORCID0000-0002-3786-5564
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS38
TOTAL CITATIONS47
AUTHOR COUNT37
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2006
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX3

  • Remediating Cartographies of Erasure: Anthropology, Indigenous Epistemologies, and the Global Imaginary

    Bernard C PerleyBOOKRemediating Cartographies of…2025

  • Perplexities of Settler Colonial Folklore: Stripping for the Holidays

    Bernard C PerleyARTICLEJournal of American Folklore2025References: 4

    Folklore studies has a distinguished history that also includes unintended harms due to past practices. Folklorists have learned lessons from past practices and are actively engaged in meaningful and purposive methodologies of understanding and shared knowledge. A Native American perspective offers insights into past harms but does so in the service of respectful and responsive folklore studies. This essay introduces "Indian humor" via comic stri…

  • Documenting the Unexpected: Repatriating Native American Linguistic Sovereignty in Northeastern Ancestral Lands

    Open AccessBernard C PerleyARTICLEAmerican Indian Culture and…2025Cited by: 1

    More than 400 years of contact and concomitant linguistic colonialism has forced the great majority of Native American languages of the Northeast into extinction. Though many distinct Native American communities have disappeared, vestiges of their languages still exist in the usual and expected places-place names and historical documents. The few remaining languages continue to resist colonial domination and projected extinction by the end of the…

  • Native American and Indigenous Language Practices and Politics

    Open AccessBernard C PerleyARTICLEAnnual Review of Anthropology2024References: 6

    The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) designated the years between 2022 and 2032 as the International Decade of Indigenous Languages in an attempt to promote language “preservation, revitalization and promotion.” Such statements convey more than advocacy; they also convey complex politics and histories surrounding settler-colonial and Indigenous encounters through, with, and for Indigenous languages and co…

  • Vibrant modalities: Indigenous modes of being and survival in the sixth extinction

    Open AccessBernard C PerleyARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist2024References: 10

    It seems every summer, one cannot escape the daily news reports from across the globe detailing the devastation from fatal floods, fatal heat waves, extended droughts, killer red tides, and inextinguishable wildfires as well as the human intransigence in the face of these existential threats. The reports that reverberate across media platforms and across continents are tangible evidence of an anxious semiotics of doom. In these tumultuous years o…

  • Climate & Language: An Entangled Crisis

    Open AccessJulia C Fine, Jessica Love-Nichols et al.ARTICLEDaedalus2023Cited by: 3References: 8

    Rising ocean levels threaten entire communities with relocation. The continued erosion of Arctic coastlines due to melting ice sheets and thawing permafrost has forced Inuit communities to move to more secure locations. Each move dislodges Indigenous peoples and their languages from ancestral landscapes and ways of knowing, obligating communities to adopt colonial or majority languages. Scholars and activists have documented the intersections of …

  • Indigenous Anthropology

    Bernard C Perley, Bernard PerleyCHAPTER2021Cited by: 1

    Indigenous anthropology is an emergent praxis of Indigenous knowledge production that can be vaguely translated and tentatively identified as approximating anthropological enquiry in the Western sense of the social science. The decolonizing practices by Indigenous scholars have outlined contours of critical Indigenous praxis that seek to liberate Indigenous communities from colonial and settler hegemonies of knowledge production, dissemination of…

  • Dare we 'hope

    Open AccessBernard C PerleyARTICLEJournal of Sociolinguistics2021Cited by: 1

  • Language Revitalization

    Open AccessBernard C PerleyOTHERThe International Encyclopedia of…2020

    Language revitalization is a complex process or set of processes that promote the increased use of endangered languages by community members on a daily basis. The strategies for revitalization are dependent upon the circumstances of each language community and the conditions contributing to language loss. The last two decades have seen encouraging developments in comparative analysis of best practices as well as ideological shifts in theory and p…

  • Linguistic Imperialism

    Open AccessBernard C PerleyOTHERThe International Encyclopedia of…2020

    Linguistic imperialism is a process or set of processes by which speakers of a perceived prestige language suppress and/or marginalize the speakers of subordinated languages. In addition to a set of processes enacted by privileged populations, linguistic imperialism requires a set of conditions that sustain ideologies of power and unequal social relations in favor of those who speak the perceived prestige language. All iterations of linguistic im…

  • Indigenous Translocality: Emergent Cosmogonies in the New World Order

    Bernard C PerleyARTICLETheory & Event2020

    Indigenous peoples have endured the transformative processes of colonization that resulted in varying degrees of eradication, relocation, and transformation of their communities, ecosystems, and cosmogonies. Settler-colonial erasing of Indigenous worlds has initiated over 500 years of Indigenous translocalizing strategies that enabled surviving Indigenous communities to reconfigure ancestral worlds into contemporary emergent cosmogonies. These su…

  • Going Native…In Other Words

    Open AccessBernard C Perley, Henrietta BlackARTICLEAnthropology News2019

  • Anthropology…in Theory

    Open AccessBernard C PerleyARTICLEAnthropology News2019

  • Moon Landing 2.0, Tycho Crater

    Open AccessBernard C Perley, Bernard PerleyARTICLEAnthropology News2019

  • Love

    Open AccessBernard C Perley, Bernard PerleyARTICLEAnthropology News2019

  • Words That Matter Anthropology, Advocacy, and Indigenous Language Revitalization

    Open AccessBernard C PerleyARTICLEGeneral Anthropology2019References: 5

  • Ranger Fitness

    Open AccessBernard C Perley, Bernard PerleyARTICLEAnthropology News2018

  • A Common Cause

    Open AccessBernard C Perley, Bernard PerleyARTICLEAnthropology News2018

  • Future Anthropologists

    Open AccessBernard C Perley, Bernard PerleyARTICLEAnthropology News2018

  • Lewis Henry Morgan

    Open AccessBernard C Perley, Bernard PerleyARTICLEAnthropology News2018

  • Feeling the Pain of Fieldwork

    Open AccessBernard C Perley, Bernard PerleyARTICLEAnthropology News2018

  • Technography

    Open AccessBernard C Perley, Bernard PerleyARTICLEAnthropology News2018

  • Indigenous Peoples' Day Part II

    Open AccessBernard C Perley, Bernard PerleyARTICLEAnthropology News2018

  • Discoveries

    Open AccessBernard C Perley, Bernard PerleyARTICLEAnthropology News2017

  • What's in Your Bag

    Open AccessA Fuentes, Jason De León et al.ARTICLEAnthropology News2017