Vocabularies of the Tlingit Haida and Tsimshian Languages - Softcover

Boas, Franz

 
9781473301962: Vocabularies of the Tlingit Haida and Tsimshian Languages
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1473301963 ISBN 13: 9781473301962
Publisher: Dabney Press, 2013

Synopsis

This early work by Franz Boas was originally published in 1892 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Vocabularies of the Tlingit Haida and Tsimshian Languages' is a linguistic study on a Native North American tribe. Franz Boas was born on July 9th 1958, in Minden, Westphalia. Even though Boas had a passion the natural sciences, he enrolled at the University at Kiel as an undergraduate in Physics. Boas completed his degree with a dissertation on the optical properties of water, before continuing his studies and receiving his doctorate in 1881. Boas became a professor of Anthropology at Columbia University in 1899 and founded the first Ph.D program in anthropology in America. He was also a leading figure in the creation of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). Franz Boas had a long career and a great impact on many areas of study. He died on 21st December 1942.

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Publisher
Dabney Press
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1473301963
ISBN 13 
9781473301962
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
44

Other Popular Editions of the Same Title

9780260127594: Vocabularies of the Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian Languages: Read Before the American Philosophical Society, October 2, 1891 (Classic Reprint)

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