| | 1 | Author: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages | | | | | The Committee was organized in 1927 under the direction of Franz Boas and with initial funds from the Carnegie Foundation of New York. Its objective was to collect materials for the study of Indian languages and dialects | |
| | | Title: | Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics
| | | | Type: | Collection | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | Native American languages | | | | Dates: | 1882-1958 | | | | Extent: | 80 linear feet | | | | Abstract: | Manuscript material on American Indian linguistics and ethnography collected by the Committee on American Languages of the American Council of Learned Societies under the direction of Franz Boas. The Committee was organized in 1927 under the direction of Franz Boas and with initial funds from the Carnegie Foundation of New York. Its objective was to collect materials for the study of Indian languages and dialects, but manuscript sources in folklore and ethnography also were added. Most of the documents were collected between 1927 and 1937, but additions have been made up to the present. They include field notes, dictionaries, grammars, lexical files, and texts. An index (up to 1945) can be found in the "Supplement" to Language, Journal of the Linguistic Society of America, Vol. 21, No.3 (July-September, 1945), by C. F. Voegelin and Z. S. Harris. Individual entries, indexed by subject and author, are listed in John E. Freeman and Murphy D. Smith, A Guide to Manuscripts Relating to the American Indian in the Library of the American Philosophical Society (Philadelphia: APS, 1980), and Daythal Kendall, A Supplement to A Guide... (Philadelphia: APS, 1982). The collection includes manuscripts of M.I. Andrade, Franz Boas, Ella Deloria, Jaime de Angulo, Roland Dixon, Reo Fortune, Leo Frachtenberg, Pliny Goddard, Herman Haeberlin, George Herzog, George Hunt, Robert Lowie, Paul Radin, Gladys Reichard, Edward Sapir, Morris Swadesh, John Swanton, C. F. Voegelin, and others. | | | | Source: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages (497.3 B63c) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Folklore, mythology, religion | Linguistics and philology | |
| 2 | Author: | Kalibala, Ernest B., 1900- | | | | | Ugandan Educator. Inspector of education, Church Missionary Society; Head of Aggey Memorial School, Kampala, 1934; assistant professor of sociology and chair of social science division, Morris Brown College, Atlanta, 1944-1946; area specialist, U.N. Trusteeship Department, 1946-. | |
| | | Title: | We the Savages
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1941 | | | | Extent: | 126 leaves | | | | Abstract: | Critique of anthropology | | | | Source: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages (497.3 B63c) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| 3 | Author: | Radin, Paul, 1883-1959 | | | | | Anthropologist. Ethnologist, Bureau of American Ethnology, 1910-1912; field ethnologist, Canadian Department of Mines, 1912-1917; assistant professor, ethnology, University of California, Berkeley, 1918-1920; lecturer, ethnology, Cambridge University, 1920-1924; Canadian fieldwork, 1925-1926; Fisk University, 1927-1931; University of California, Berkeley, 1931-1940; Black Mountain College, North Carolina, 1941-1945; foundation supported lecturing and research, 1945-1957; Samuel Rubin professor, and head of department, anthropology, Brandeis University, 1957-1959. | |
| | | Title: | Manuscript materials on Indian linguistics and ethnography
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | Otomi | Huave | Mixtec | Chinantec | Patwin | | | | Dates: | 1912-1959 | | | | Extent: | Approximately 600 leaves and 300 cards | | | | Abstract: | Includes manuscript material on Otomi, Huave, Mixtec, Chinantec, Patwin | | | | Source: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages (497.3 B63c) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Folklore, mythology, religion | Linguistics and philology | |
| 4 | Author: | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | | | | | Anthropologist, linguist. Research assistant, anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 1907-1908; instructor, anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, 1908-1910; chief of division, anthropology, Canadian National Museum, 1910-1925; associate professor, anthropology, University of Chicago, 1925-1927, professor, anthopology and general linguistics, 1927-1931; Sterling professor, anthropology and linguistics, Yale University, 1931-1939 | |
| | | Title: | Edward Sapir Manuscripts
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | Native American languages | | | | Dates: | Circa 1905-1939 | | | | Extent: | 17 linear feet | | | | Abstract: | Dictionaries, texts, word lists, field notes, miscellaneous materials on American Indian languages and ethnography. Primarily linguistics, but some folklore and general ethnography. Includes material on Paiute, Wasco, Wishram, Chinook, Hopi, Algonquin, Nootka, Okanagon, Otomi, Athapaskan, Uto-Aztecan, Wakashan, Yana, Navaho, and other languages | | | | Source: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages (497.3 B63c) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Folklore, mythology, religion | Linguistics and philology | |
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