Oswald Werner Collection 1963-1964

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Oswald Werner Collection 1963-1964

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The anthropologist Oswald Werner was a member of the faculty at Northwestern University from 1963 until his retirement in 1998. A student of Navajo language and culture, he had a particular interest in Navajo medicine and science. The Werner Collection consists of two of Oswald Werner's early works on Navajo language and culture: his dissertation, "A typological comparison of four trader Navaho speakers" (Indiana University, 1963) and a paper "The Navaho ethnomedical domain: prolegomena to a componential semantic analysis" (1964).

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Werner, Oswald.

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Oswald Werner was born on February 26, 1928, the son of Dr. Gyula and Bella (Toth) at Rimavska Soboat, in the former Czechoslovakia. Werner attended the Technische Hochschule of Stuttgart, Germany between 1946 and 1950, where he took the equivalent of a bachelor of science degree in Applied Physics. Werner joined the faculty of Northwestern in 1963 and remained until his retirement in 1998. His research focused on linguistics as well as cultural anthropology, particularly as they re...

Werner, Oswald, 1928-

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Born in Rimavska Sobota in the Slovak Republic in 1928, the anthropologist Oswald Werner emigrated to the United States after the Second World War. Having received a bachelor's degree in Applied Physics from the Technische Hochschule in Stuttgart in 1950, he eaarned his MA in Anthropology from Syracuse University and doctorate in Anthropology and Linguistics from Indiana University. His dissertation, "A Typological Comparison of Four Trader Navaho Speakers" (1963), was the first in ...