Handbook of American Indian languages

Author(s)

• Boas, Franz

Bibliographic Information

Handbook of American Indian languages

Franz Boas

（History of American thought, . Classics in American thought）

Thoemmes Press, 2002

• : set
• v. 1, pt. 1
• v. 2, pt. 1
• v. 3, pt. 2
• v. 4, pt. 2

Note

Reprint of: Washington : G.P.O., 1911-1922, which was issued as Bulletin 40 of Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Franz Boas (1858-1942) is considered "the father of American anthropology". As the first professor of the subject at Clark University from 1899 to 1937, he established the "four-field" approach to the study of societies through attention to human evolution, archaeology, culture and language, each of which has become a sub-field in academic anthropology. Boas brought a new rigour to his many investigations in all these areas. He championed cultural relativism and was a fierce opponent of "scientific racism". The influence of Boas's methods and conclusions has spread beyond anthropology and now permeates intellectual life. His stature is hard to eggaxerate. The "Handbook of American Indian Languages" is Boas's main contribution to anthropological linguistics. It grew out of expeditions made by Boas to study the tribes of Baffin Island and British Columbia in the 1880s. Supplemented by the research of his collaborators, the "Handbook" was first published by the Smithsonian Institution as Bulletin 40 of the Bureau of American Ethnology (part 1, 1911; part 2, 1922). The first of these four classic volumes contains a long introduction on general linguistic principles, followed by many chapters devoted to the languages of various American Indian tribes. Subsequent volumes analyze the grammar and vocabulary of individual languages in great detail, always according to Boas's central methodological rule - that the internal structures of languages and societies must be allowed to emerge on their own, without the distorting imposition of European templates upon them.

Table of Contents

• Volume 1: Athapascan
• Tlingit
• Haida
• Tsimshian
• Kwakiutl
• Chinook
• Maidu
• Algonquian
• Siouan
• Eskimo. Volume 2: Chinook
• distribution and history
• phonetics
• grammar
• vocabulary. Volume 3: the Takelma language of South-Western Oregon
• phonology -vowels, consonants
• morphology - the verb, the noun, the pronoun, the adjective, numerals, adverbs and particles, interjections. Volume 4: Siuslawan (Lower Umpqua)
• distribution and history
• phonology
• morphology.

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Details

• NCID: BA56732583
• ISBN:
  • 185506961X
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: engnai
• Place of Publication: Bristol, England
• Pages/Volumes: 4 v. (vi, 1069; v, 903 p.)
• Size: 23 cm
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA50530076