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

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

Boas, Franz
Powell, J. W.
Holder, Preston

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Native American HistoryIndigenous Languages of the AmericasLinguistics

ISBN10: 149620154X
ISBN13: 9781496201546
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: Oct 1 2017
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
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.

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