• Melville Jacobs (July 3, 1902 – July 31, 1971) was an American anthropologist known for his extensive fieldwork on cultures of the Pacific Northwest....
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  • received notable support from later anthropologists, thus in 1947 Melville Jacobs noted: "To many physical anthropologists Nordic means a group with...
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    languages are now extinct. Coosan Hanis † Miluk † (a.k.a. Lower Coquille) Melville Jacobs (1939) says that the languages are as close as Dutch and German. They...
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  • University of Washington anthropologist-husband Melville Jacobs, whom she had married on January 3, 1931. Jacobs had no formal training in anthropology but...
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    James Owen Dorsey, a wordlist of approximately 150 words taken by Melville Jacobs in 1935 in work with Lower Umpqua speaker Hank Johnson, an audio recording...
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    Victoria Howard, a Chinook speaker who dictated songs and stories to Melville Jacobs. It derives from Latin, dictāre (to assert). The exercise requires...
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  • S. state of Oregon who was a cultural and linguistic consultant to Melville Jacobs, an anthropologist at the University of Washington. Annie was born...
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  • Albert S. Gatschet, Franz Boas, Leo J. Frachtenberg, Philip Drucker, Melville Jacobs, and Leslie Spier. Descendants of the Molala reside on the Confederated...
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    myths as well as of Oregon history. In 1928, Howard was approached by Melville Jacobs, a professor of anthropology at the University of Washington state...
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  • vocabulary obtained by Horatio Hale in 1841 (published in Hale 1846). Melville Jacobs and John P. Harrington were able to collect fragmentary data from the...
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    Integration. Boca Raton, Florida, USA: Universal Publishers, 2008, p. 8. Melville Jacobs, Bernhard Joseph Stern. General anthropology. Barnes & Noble, 1963...
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    Melville Jacobs | The Online Books Page". onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2023-12-15. Howard, Victoria; Mason, Catharine; Jacobs, Melville (2021)...
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    Melville Jacob Shyer (September 28, 1895 – September 14, 1968) was an American film director, screenwriter and producer and one of the founders of the...
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    Blues" Victor Military Band 1914 Melville Jacobs Collection of Native Americans of the American Northwest Melville Jacobs 1929–1939 "Minnie the Moocher"...
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  • American politician Melville E. Ingalls (1842–1914), American politician Melville Jacobs (1902–1971), American anthropologist Melville James (1877–1957)...
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  • 309. Robert Ranulph Marett, Anthropology, Henry Holt, 1912, p. 104 Melville Jacobs, Bernhard Joseph Stern. General anthropology. Barnes & Noble, 1963...
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  • Another speaker was Annie Miner Peterson, who worked with linguist Melville Jacobs to document the language. As of 2007, classes in Hanis were offered...
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  • 1950, while Barker was studying at the University of Washington under Melville Jacobs, he became involved with science fiction fanzines, writing articles...
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  • Integration. Boca Raton, Florida: Universal Publishers, 2008. p. 8. Melville Jacobs, Bernhard Joseph Stern. General anthropology. Barnes & Noble, 1963...
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    Bunzel Roland Burrage Dixon Alexander Goldenweiser Melville Herskovits Zora Neale Hurston Melville Jacobs Alfred Kroeber Alexander Lesser Robert Lowie Margaret...
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  • songs and stories collected from Victoria Howard and published by Melville Jacobs. The open-source platform FirstVoices hosts community-managed websites...
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    kept a diary in Aleut during the decade. At the same time, linguist Melville Jacobs picked up several new texts from Sergey Golley, an Atkan speaker who...
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    base its policies on such a false premise. Boas, and his students such as Melville J. Herskovits, opposed the racist pseudoscience developed at the Kaiser...
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  • Berkeley where he was trained by Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie and Melville Jacobs, writing his dissertation as a grammar of Tübatulabal. At first he...
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  • Seaburg, William R.; Pamela T. Amoss. Badger and Coyote were Neighbors: Melville Jacobs on Northwest Indian Myths and Tails. Oregon State University Press...
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    Raton, Florida: Universal Publishers, 2008. p. 8. ISBN 978-1599429830 Melville Jacobs, Bernhard Joseph Stern. General anthropology. Barnes & Noble, 1963...
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  • graduate, Hymes carefully analyzed a corpus, within the publication by Melville Jacobs of the songs and stories of Victoria Howard, developing new approaches...
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    'thirsty' Limited lexical items in Cayuse have been collected by Rigsby, Melville Jacobs, Verne Ray, and Theodore Stern. Their Cayuse informants had highly...
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    University of Washington in 1967. His dissertation, which was supervised by Melville Jacobs, was entitled James Sewed: A Social, Cultural and Psychological Analysis...
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    was convinced that her father should have been called Jacobs because his father was Henry Jacobs, a free white man. After Harriet's mother died, her father...
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