Correspondence with Franz Boas, 1905-1934 [microform].

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Correspondence with Franz Boas, 1905-1934 [microform].

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Collection generally concerns American Indian linguistics and professional affairs in anthropology. Special discussion of Wasco, Pawnee, Nahua, Ute, Paiute, Wyandot, Mohawk; relationship of Wishosk and Algonquian, Salish and Wakashan, Haida, Tlingit and Athabaskan. Includes a report on phonetic transcription, 1913; and various papers pertaining to the American Council of Learned Societies' Committee on American Native Languages.

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Iowa State University, Parks Library

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Iowa State University, Parks Library

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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...

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 ...

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...