The Northern Athabaskan Survey of Edward Sapir and James A. Teit  

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Adlam, Robert G.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Anthropological Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 49 no. 2 (Mar. 2007), page 99-117.
Fulltext: Vol. 49, No. 2, pp. 99-117.pdf (2.3MB)

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This article investigates the collaboration of Edward Sapir and James A. Teit in a project sponsored by the Geological Survey of Canada and focusing on the northern Athabaskans in the period from 1910, when Sapir first came to head the newly created Division of Anthropology, until the time of Teit's death in 1922. Despite the project's ambitious objectives, it progressed little further than the Tahltan of the Stikine River and their eastern Kaska neighbors. Although the reasons for this are complex, it is suggestive of an anthropology taking shape well beyond the strict dictates of the Boasian text tradition. For Sapir, this would see the development of a comparative hypothesis regarding a six-unit classification of North American Indian languages, while for Teit, it would lead to an advocacy on behalf of aboriginal peoples in pursuit of their land rights.

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