Author: Franz BoasPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803250178
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Two major anthropological works study the roots, structure, and classification of Indian languages.
Introduction to Handbook of American Indian Languages
Author: Franz BoasPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803250178
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Two major anthropological works study the roots, structure, and classification of Indian languages.
Handbook of American Indian Languages: Introduction, by Franz Boas. Athapascan (Hupa) by P. E. Goddard. Tlingit, by J. R. Swanton. Haida, by J. R. Swanton. Tsimshian, by Franz Boas. Kwakiutl, by Franz Boas. Chinook, by Franz Boas. Maidu, by R. B. Dixon. Algonquian (Fox) by William Jones, rev. by Truman Michelson Siouan (Dakota) by Franz Boas and J. R. Swanton. Eskimo, by William Thalbitzer
Author: Franz BoasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 1236
Book Description
Includes chapters on Athapascan, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, Kwakiutl, Eskimo and Chukchee. (AB1739).
Introduction to Handbook of American Indian Languages and Indian Linguistic Families of America North of Mexico
Author: Franz BoasPublisher:
ISBN: 9781496201546
Category : Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
As Michael Silverstein discusses in his introduction to this new edition, the two foundational essays presented here are culminating moments in the scholarly history of North American indigenous peoples' languages and cultures. Franz Boas's "Introduction" essay (1911) initiates readers into the collection of grammatical sketches contained in the multiple volumes of the Handbook of American Indian Languages, underscoring critical issues of language in human cognition and its role in sociocultural variation. Twenty years earlier, J. W. Powell published "Indian Linguistic Families of America North of Mexico" to accompany his Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE) of the Smithsonian Institution. Powell interpreted the BAE's vast collection of vocabularies through a classificatory perspective like those of geology, geography, and biology, thus organizing understanding of the hundreds of attested languages as members of linguistic families. Originally published in the same volume in 1966, these two essays form a cornerstone of modern indigenous language studies. Franz Boas (1858-1942) is indigenous North America's most significant non-Native anthropologist. J. W. Powell (1834-1902) was the first director of the Bureau of American Ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution and a strong supporter of linguistic research. Michael Silverstein is the Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology, of Linguistics, and of Psychology at the University of Chicago. Among many publications in Native American studies are his chapters in several volumes of the Handbook of North American Indians of the Smithsonian Institution.
HANDBOOK OF AMERICAN INDIAN LANGUAGES
Author: FRANZ BOASIntroduction [to Handbook of American Indian Languages]
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Author: Franz BoasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 1096
Book Description
Handbook of American Indian Languages
Author: Franz BoasPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108063446
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 915
Book Description
Includes chapters on Athapascan, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, Kwakiutl, Eskimo and Chukchee.
Introduction to Handbook of American Indian Languages [by] Franz Boas
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Author: Franz BoasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
Introduction to the Handbook of American Indian Languages
Author: Franz BoasIntroduction to the Handbook of American Indian Languages
Author: Franz BoasHandbook of American Indian Languages: Volume 1, Part 2
Author: Franz BoasPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781139626552
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Edited by the eminent anthropologist and linguist Franz Boas (1858-1942), this work was first published in two huge volumes between 1911 and 1922. Comprising detailed studies of several Native American languages, Volume 1 has been split into two parts for this reissue. Part 2 contains chapters on the Chinook, Maidu, Algonquian, Siouan and Inuit languages. Each chapter contains a discussion of the speakers of the language, its geographical distribution, the phonetic system, and an analysis of the grammar and vocabulary. The work built upon the foundations laid by J. W. Powell (1834-1902) in his Introduction to the Study of Indian Languages (1877). Boas, a pioneer in the field of cultural anthropology, intended the present work to promote his culturally relativist approach to ethnographic study. Overall, the project ranks as a landmark in entrenching scientific principles for the study of North America's indigenous peoples and languages.