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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/cbo9781139626569 2024-03-03T08:43:37+00:00 Handbook of American Indian Languages Boas, Franz 2013 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139626569 unknown Cambridge University Press https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms ISBN 9781108063449 9781139626569 book 2013 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139626569 2024-02-08T08:29:59Z Edited by the eminent anthropologist and linguist Franz Boas (1858–1942), this work was first published in two huge volumes between 1911 and 1922. Comprising detailed studies of four Native American languages, Volume 2 focuses on the Takelma, Coos, Siuslaw and Chukchi languages. Each chapter contains a discussion of the speakers of the language, its geographical distribution, the phonetic system, and an analysis of the grammar and vocabulary. The work built upon the foundations laid by J. W. Powell (1834–1902) in his Introduction to the Study of Indian Languages (1877). Boas, a pioneer in the field of cultural anthropology, intended the present work to promote his culturally relativist approach to ethnographic study. Overall, the project ranks as a landmark in entrenching scientific principles for the study of North America's indigenous peoples and languages. Book Chukchi Cambridge University Press Indian
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Edited by the eminent anthropologist and linguist Franz Boas (1858–1942), this work was first published in two huge volumes between 1911 and 1922. Comprising detailed studies of four Native American languages, Volume 2 focuses on the Takelma, Coos, Siuslaw and Chukchi languages. Each chapter contains a discussion of the speakers of the language, its geographical distribution, the phonetic system, and an analysis of the grammar and vocabulary. The work built upon the foundations laid by J. W. Powell (1834–1902) in his Introduction to the Study of Indian Languages (1877). Boas, a pioneer in the field of cultural anthropology, intended the present work to promote his culturally relativist approach to ethnographic study. Overall, the project ranks as a landmark in entrenching scientific principles for the study of North America's indigenous peoples and languages.
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Handbook of American Indian Languages
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Handbook of American Indian Languages
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Handbook of American Indian Languages
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Handbook of American Indian Languages
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Handbook of American Indian Languages
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Handbook of American Indian Languages
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handbook of american indian languages
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Cambridge University Press
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2013
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Chukchi
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Chukchi
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