Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 17 - Languages

Informationen zum Autor A specialist in Algonquian languages, Ives Goddard is curator and senior linguist in the Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Klappentext Provides a basic reference work on the Native languages of North America, their characteristics and uses, their historical relationships, and the history of research on these languages. Fold-out, color, volume map. Zusammenfassung A 20-volume encyclopedia summarizing knowledge about the Native peoples north of Mesoamerica, including cultures, languages, history, prehistory, and human biology. Each volume contains illustrated chapters on each topic and concludes with bibliography and index.

Product details

• Authors: Ives Goddard, William C Sturtevant, William C. Sturtevant
• Assisted by: Ives Goddard (Editor), William C. Sturtevant (Editor)
• Publisher: Smithsonian books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.08.2006
• EAN: 9780874741971
• ISBN: 978-0-87474-197-1
• No. of pages: 958
• Dimensions: 236 mm x 295 mm x 56 mm
• Series: Handbook of North American Indians; Handbook of North American Indians
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology