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Introduction to Handbook of American Indian Languages and Indian Linguistic Families of America North of Mexico (Paperback, New Edition)
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Introduction to Handbook of American Indian Languages and Indian Linguistic Families of America North of Mexico (Paperback, New Edition)
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As Michael Silverstein discusses in his introduction to this new
edition, the two foundational essays presented here are culminating
moments in the scholarly history of North American indigenous
peoples’ languages and cultures. Franz Boas’s
“Introduction” essay (1911) initiates readers into the
collection of grammatical sketches contained in the multiple
volumes of the Handbook of American Indian Languages, underscoring
critical issues of language in human cognition and its role in
sociocultural variation. Twenty years earlier, J. W. Powell
published “Indian Linguistic Families of America North of
Mexico” to accompany his Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of
American Ethnology (BAE) of the Smithsonian
Institution. Powell interpreted the BAE’s vast collection
of vocabularies through a classificatory perspective like those of
geology, geography, and biology, thus
organizing understanding of the hundreds of attested
languages as members of linguistic families. Originally published
in the same volume in 1966, these two essays form a cornerstone of
modern indigenous language studies.
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