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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.

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“Combined here are two classics on the nature of Native languages of North America: Boas’s famous 1911 essay pointing to new methods of research and Powell’s pioneering 1891 work on classification.”—Scholarly Books in America

“[These] two cognate essays . . . are still regarded as fundamental to all subsequent work on the subject.”—The World in Books

"Both works . . . are of immediate and continuing value, not only to students of linguistics but to all Americanists and anthropologists in general. . . . it must be stressed that all . . . later work stems directly out of the pioneering papers here presented."—Preston Holder, in his preface

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Introduction to Handbook of American Indian

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    A Paperback / softback by Franz Boas, J. W. Powell, Preston Holder

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      Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/10/2017
      ISBN13: 9781496201546, 978-1496201546
      ISBN10: 149620154X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      “Combined here are two classics on the nature of Native languages of North America: Boas’s famous 1911 essay pointing to new methods of research and Powell’s pioneering 1891 work on classification.”—Scholarly Books in America

      “[These] two cognate essays . . . are still regarded as fundamental to all subsequent work on the subject.”—The World in Books

      "Both works . . . are of immediate and continuing value, not only to students of linguistics but to all Americanists and anthropologists in general. . . . it must be stressed that all . . . later work stems directly out of the pioneering papers here presented."—Preston Holder, in his preface

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      [No TOC]

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