Open AccessISSN 1083-7264Est. 1995| Benchmarks | Benchmarks (Anthropoetics V, no. 1) |
| By Erik Eisel | “In the Beginning was the Word…”: The Question of the Origin of Language in Goethe’s Faust |
| By Eric Gans | The Little Bang: The Early Origin of Language |
| By William Mishler | The Question of the Origin of Language in René Girard, Eric Gans, and Kenneth Burke |
| By Herbert Plutschow | An Anthropological Perspective on the Japanese Tea Ceremony |