American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society [ACLS Collection]

Kidder, Alfred Vincent, 1885-1963

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Kidder was an archaeologist who excavated sites in the Southwest. He became a member of the Advisory Board for the Laboratory of Anthropology in 1927. From the description of Alfred Vincent Kidder Pecos papers, 1915-1935. (Museum of New Mexico Library). WorldCat record id: 37992640 Kidder was an archaeologist who excavated sites in the southwest. He became a member of the Advisory Board for the Laboratory of Anthropology in 1927. From the description of Alfred Vi...

Boas, Franz, 1858-1942

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Born in Minden, Germany, on July 8, 1858, the anthropologist Franz Boas was the son of the merchant Meier Boas and his wife, Sophie Meyer. Raised in the radical and tradition of German Judaism, Franz's youth was steeped in politically liberal beliefs and a largely secular outlook that he carried with him from university through his emigration to the United States. At the universities of Heidelberg and Bonn, Boas studied physics and geography before completin...

Dixon, Roland Burrage, 1875-1934

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Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960

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Alfred L. Kroeber was an anthropologist. He taught anthropology at the University of California, 1901-1946, and was curator, 1908-1925, and director, 1925-1946, of the University's anthropological museum. From the description of Yana vocabulary and grammatical notes, 1911-1912. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 86165433 Anthropologist. From the description of Anthropology : mss., 1948. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 85185772 A...

Jenness, Diamond, 1886-1969

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Jenness was the ethnologist on the Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-1918. From the description of Papers, 1913-1921. (Dartmouth College Library). WorldCat record id: 237352321 ...

Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950

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Frank G. Speck was an anthropologist. From the description of Naskapi scenes, [ca. 1930]. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122523446 From the guide to the Naskapi scenes, [ca. 1930], Circa 1930, (American Philosophical Society) Frank Gouldsmith Speck was an anthropologist. From the description of Delaware Indian material, 1928. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122440271 From the descripti...

Reichard, Gladys Amanda, 1893-1955

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Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967

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James M. Crawford was a linguist who mainly studied Native American languages, including Cocopa, Yuchi, and Mobilian trade language. He came to the field of linguistics halfway through his lifetime after pursuing a career in forestry in the West and Southwest. After receiving his PhD in 1966 from the University of California at Berkeley, he returned to his birthplace, Georgia, where he taught in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Georgia at Athens. From the guide to t...

Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958

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Hoijer, Harry, 1904-1976

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James M. Crawford was a linguist who mainly studied Native American languages, including Cocopa, Yuchi, and Mobilian trade language. He came to the field of linguistics halfway through his lifetime after pursuing a career in forestry in the West and Southwest. After receiving his PhD in 1966 from the University of California at Berkeley, he returned to his birthplace, Georgia, where he taught in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Georgia at Athens. From the guide to t...

Olbrechts, Franz M.

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Haile, Berard, 1874-1961

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Franciscan missionary, linguist, and anthropologist. Worked extensively with the Navajo at Lukachukai and St. Michaels Missions in Arizona and wrote several works on Navajo ceremonials, language and grammar. From the description of Papers, 1893-1961 (bulk 1925-1961). (University of Arizona). WorldCat record id: 30482145 From the guide to the Berard Haile papers, 1893-1961 (bulk 1925-1961), (University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections) ...

Angulo, Jaime de

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Born Jan. 29, 1887 in Paris, France, of Spanish expatriate parents; came to US, 1905; studied medicine at Cooper Union Medical School, and in 1908 transferred to Johns Hopkins; conducted research at Stanford Univ, where his interests turned to anthropology and linguistics, and he studied Pit River (Achomawi) Indians of Northern CA; wrote two novels, Don Bartolomeo (1922) and The Reata (late 1920s), as well as some children's stories and poetry; also wrote a book about his first linguistic field ...

Sturtevant, Edgar H. (Edgar Howard), 1875-1952

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Educator; B.A., U. of Indiana, 1898; Ph.D., U. of Chicago, 1891; joined the Yale faculty in 1923 as an assistant professor of Greek and Latin, became an associate professor in 1926 and a full professor in 1927, retired in 1943; one of the foremost authorities on the ancient Hittite language. From the description of Edgar Howard Sturtevant papers, 1895-1936 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702166553 From the guide to the Edgar Howard Sturtevant papers, 1895-1936, (...

Harrington, John Peabody

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Goddard, Pliny Earle, 1869-1928

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BIOGHIST REQUIRED Anthropologist. Goddard held several curatorial positions with the American Museum of Natural History from 1909 to 1928. In 1914 he became Curator of Ethnology and from 1915 to 1928 he was a Lecturer in Anthropology at Columbia University. From the guide to the Pliny Earle Goddard American Indian Notebooks, 1901-1929., (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library, ) Ethnologist, museum curator. Goddard was Curator of Ethno...

Jacobs, Melville, 1902-1971

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Author, anthropologist, folklorist and professor of anthropology and linguistics, University of Washington. Melville Jacobs was born in New York City, July 3, 1902, where he attended public school and received his undergraduate degree from City College. He entered Columbia University in 1922, completing both a masters in history (1923) and a doctorate in anthropology (1931). He studied under the noted anthropologist, Franz Boas. In 1928, Jacobs was appointed an associate...

Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939

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American anthropologist and linguist. From the description of Yana field notes: holographs, 1907. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 227536942 ...

Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938

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American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on American Native Languages

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Formed in 1927 under the initiative of Franz Boas, Edward Sapir, and other academic linguists, the Committee on Native American Languages of the American Council of Learned Societies was charged with documenting the endangered languages of indigenous Americans. Wielding grants to encourage research, the Committee was chaired by Boas and staffed by Manuel J. Andrade, Jaime de Angulo, Roland B. Dixon, Pliny E. Goddard, Bernard Haile, John P. Harrington, Harry Hoijer, Melville Jacobs, Diamond Jenne...

Andrade, Manuel José, 1885-1941

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