Published 1982
by Scarecrow Press in Metuchen, N.J .
Written in English
Edition Notes
Includes index.
| Statement | William Bright. |
| Series | Native American bibliography series ;, no. 3 |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | Z7118 .B74 1982, PM501.C2 .B74 1982 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | x, 220 p. ; |
| Number of Pages | 220 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL3483869M |
| ISBN 10 | 0810815478 |
| LC Control Number | 82003331 |
Additional Physical Format: Online version: Dixon, Roland Burrage, Native languages of California. Lancaster, Pa., New Era Print. Co., About the Author. Victor Golla, a leading expert on the native languages of California, is Professor of Anthropology at Humboldt State is the editor of The Sapir-Kroeber Correspondnce: Letters Between Edward Sapir and Alfred Kroeber, – and of several volumes of The Collected Works of Edward Sapir. Nowhere was the linguistic diversity of the New World more extreme than in California, where an extraordinary variety of village-dwelling peoples spoke seventy-eight mutually unintelligible languages. This comprehensive illustrated handbook, a major synthesis of more than years of documentation and study, reviews what we now know about California’s indigenous languages. See E. Sapir in Selected Writings in Language, Culture, and Personality, ed. by D. G. Mandelbaum (); J. A. Mason in Handbook of South American Indians, ed. by J.
Indigenous languages of the Americas: a bibliography of dissertations and theses. [Robert Singerman] A valuable bibliographic tool for research in Native American languages, of North and South America, is provided by the present volume an impressive number of entries. Book\/a>, schema:CreativeWork\/a> ;. William Bright (Aug Oxnard, California – Octo Louisville, Colorado) was an American linguist who specialized in Native American and South Asian languages and descriptive linguistics.. Bright earned a bachelor's degree in linguistics in and a doctorate in the same field in , both from the University of California, Berkeley. Ishi (c. – Ma ) was the last known member of the Native American Yahi people from the present-day state of California in the United rest of the Yahi (as well as many members of their parent tribe, the Yana) were killed in the California genocide in the 19th century. Ishi, who was widely acclaimed as the "last wild Indian" in America, lived most of his . William James Sidis (/ ˈ s aɪ d ɪ s /; April 1, – J ) was an American child prodigy with exceptional mathematical and linguistic skills. He is notable for his book The Animate and the Inanimate, in which he speculates about the origin of life in the context of was raised in a particular manner by his father, psychiatrist Boris Sidis, .
Books Advanced Search New Releases Best Sellers & More Children's Books Textbooks Textbook Rentals Sell Us Your Books Best Books of the Month of over 6, results for Books: "Native American Languages". Alfred Louis Kroeber (J – October 5, ) was an American cultural received his PhD under Franz Boas at Columbia University in , the first doctorate in anthropology awarded by Columbia. He was also the first professor appointed to the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. He played an integral . David Adams concludes his book Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience (University of Kansas Press, ) with, “the white man concluded that the only way to save Indians was to destroy them, that the last great Indian war should be waged against children. They were coming for the children.”. Courtesy of the Ethnic Studies Library, University of California, Berekeley, Bibliography of Native American Bibliographies / compiled by Phillip M. White. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, pp. Main Library ZN67 W55 This book serves as the first and only master listing of bibliographies in the field of American Indian.
