Arapaho Place Names in Colorado: Form and Function, Language and Culture  

Oleh:

Cowell, Andrew ; Moss, Alonzo

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Anthropological Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 45 no. 4 (Mar. 2003), page 349-389.
Fulltext: Vol. 45, No. 4, pp. 349-389.pdf (3.77MB)

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The first part of the article presents a list of 123 Arapaho place names recorded in 1914, providing transcription, translation, and linguistic analysis produced with a native speaker, as well as cultural annotations. The place names are discussed in terms of the internal evidence (congruencies of lin- guistic structure, semantic content, and the known or apparent inspiration for the names) supporting specific indigenous categories of place-naming. External evidence, in the form of ethnographic data on Arapaho symbolism, particularly as revealed in studies of decorative arts motifs, permits a better understanding of the place names. An examination of this external evidence reveals the deeper connections between the specific place names and place-name categories and Arapaho symbolic, sacred, and mythological thought of the nineteenth century. Comparative evidence from contemporary Arapaho place names demonstrates the virtually complete loss of certain of the nineteenth-century patterns of nam- ing, particularly those most highly connected to traditional religious and mytho- logical thought.

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