Introduction to Handbook of American Indian Languages and Indian Linguistic Families of America North of Mexico, New Edition by Boas, Franz

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Introduction to Handbook of American Indian Languages and Indian Linguistic Families of America North of Mexico, New Edition by Boas, Franz

Introduction to Handbook of American Indian Languages and Indian Linguistic Families of America North of Mexico

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Introduction to Handbook of American Indian Languages and Indian Linguistic Families of America North of Mexico, New Edition by Boas, Franz

Introduction to Handbook of American Indian Languages and Indian Linguistic Families of America North of Mexico

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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.


Author: Franz Boas, J. W. Powell
ISBN-10: 149620154X
ISBN-13: 9781496201546
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2017
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.56d
By Franz Boas
By Franz Boas
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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.

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