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Klappentext Franz Boas (1858–1942) is indigenous North America’s most significant non-Native anthropologist.¿J. W. Powell (1834–1902)¿was the first director of the Bureau of American Ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution and a strong supporter of linguistic research.¿Michael Silverstein is the Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology, of Linguistics, and of Psychology at the University of Chicago. Among many publications in Native American studies are his chapters in several volumes of the Handbook of North American Indians of the Smithsonian Institution. Zusammenfassung 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.
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Franz Boas (1858–1942) is indigenous North America’s most significant non-Native anthropologist. J. W. Powell (1834–1902) was the first director of the Bureau of American Ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution and a strong supporter of linguistic research. Michael Silverstein is the Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology, of Linguistics, and of Psychology at the University of Chicago. Among many publications in Native American studies are his chapters in several volumes of the Handbook of North American Indians of the Smithsonian Institution.
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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.
