William A Smalley
Biographic Data
| ID | 176104 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William A Smalley |
| GIVEN NAMES | William A |
| FAMILY NAME | Smalley |
| SIGNATURE | SMALLEY W A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New Haven |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1949 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Troubled youth in transition
Another Hmong Messianic Script and Its Texts
Among several writing systems devised by native speakers of Hmong, the Sayaboury script is of interest because it is the only one in which a body of apparently original mythic religio-political text material has been recorded. It also has an unusually ingenious, elegant, and economical set of vowel symbols, and a convention of doubling all initial consonant symbols in formal writing. Of secondary interest is the fact that this system was produced…
Linguistic Diversity and National Unity
Linguistic Diversity and National Unity
Unlike other multi-ethnic nations, such as Myanmar and India, where official language policy has sparked bloody clashes, Thailand has maintained relative stability despite its 80 languages. In this study of the relations among politics, geography and language, William A. Smalley shows how Thailand has maintained national unity through an elaborate social and linguistic hierarchy. Smalley contends that because the people of Thailand perceive their…
Linguistic Diversity and National Unity
Linguistic Diversity and National Unity
Mother of Writing
Thailand's hierarchy of multilingualism
Multilingualism in the Northern Khmer population of Thailand
Adaptive language strategies of the Hmong
Discourse and syntax
Linguistics
Therapeutic discourse
The organization of prose and its effects on memory
Change of Editorship
Mon-Khmer Studies I
A Dictionary of Modern Spoken Mon
Outline of Khmu? Structure
Modern Asians and Western Churches
As a missionary in his first year, eager to apply the “indigenous principle,” I have been hearing but one thing lately: “The trend is to become Western.” It is my impression that this is far too much a rationalization on the part of missionaries. Of course, I realize that “if the natives want to ‘go Western,’ the indigenous thing to do is to let them make that choice.” But long before they make such a choice, it seems that the missionaries mold t…
Music, Church, and Ethnocentrism
It was more by accident than by design that the articles which comprise this special issue on “Developing Hymnology in New Churches” have been brought together. They all came to my attention about the same time, and they have been published together because they rather complement each other
A Case of Unity, if Not Ecumenicity
Practical Anthropology” Content and Style
As Practical Anthropology grow, the range of potential contributors to its pages is also growing. So does the range of content. While we are most anxious for just such a widening representation of author and content. PA does have a definite purpose, and a definite personality which we try to maintain. In the following paragraphs we will outline for authors and reviewers some of the elements of that purpose and personality with suggestions for the…
Outline of Khmu? Structure
Anthropological Study and Missionary Scholarship
The growing interest in the study of anthropology among missionary scholars and prospective missionaries in the United States prompted the Missionary Research Library to ask for a bibliography of anthropology for missionaries together with an interpretive introduction. The article which follows reproduces that introduction, with minor changes. Many of the readers of Practical Anthropology have had little or no formal training in this field, and p…
What is Christian Education
Over the past two years Practical Anthropology has had an exchange of discussion on the nature and relevance of Christian education in the Cross-cultural situation. It started with an editorial which posed very briefly the problem of the effectiveness of our witness to bring to men an understanding of God and of their relation to him. 1 It continued when William J. Samarin raised the question of goals for Christian education among non-Christian p…
The organization of prose and its effects on memory
Linguistic Diversity and National Unity
Unlike other multi-ethnic nations, such as Myanmar and India, where official language policy has sparked bloody clashes, Thailand has maintained relative stability despite its 80 languages. In this study of the relations among politics, geography and language, William A. Smalley shows how Thailand has maintained national unity through an elaborate social and linguistic hierarchy. Smalley contends that because the people of Thailand perceive their…
Thailand's hierarchy of multilingualism
Therapeutic discourse
Multilingualism in the Northern Khmer population of Thailand
Srê Phonemes and Syllables
Troubled youth in transition
Adaptive language strategies of the Hmong
Phonemic Rhythm in Comanche
Formulae for Comanche Stem and Word Formation
Formulae for Comanche Stem and Word Formation
A Program for the Study of French in Paris
Lessons from Asia
Phonemic Rhythm in Comanche
Srê Phonemes and Syllables
Cultural Implications of an Indigenous Church
The Bridges of GCD
The Voice and the Message
Present Needs and Future Trends
The Moral Implications of Social Structure
It has not been often that the editor of Practical Anthropology has received a letter raising serious objection to any of the many viewpoints which have been expressed in the pages of the magazine. We welcome such letters, of course, as they draw attention to weaknesses of presentation, faulty logic, wrong data, unwarranted conclusions, and many other possible problems with material published in PA. We did receive one such letter from the Rev. Pa…
What are Indigenous Churches Like
It seems that the only optimism that can be generated with respect to reaching the millions without Christ is not to be found in the number of missionaries who go to the field, but in the rapid multiplication of Christianity among nationals reached by nationals. How effective are indigenous churches? How free are indigenous churches? How numerous are they? Is the use of the term “indigenous church” simply lip service to a concept? [Question by Fr…
Some Questions about Missionary Medicine
Anthropological Study and Missionary Scholarship
The growing interest in the study of anthropology among missionary scholars and prospective missionaries in the United States prompted the Missionary Research Library to ask for a bibliography of anthropology for missionaries together with an interpretive introduction. The article which follows reproduces that introduction, with minor changes. Many of the readers of Practical Anthropology have had little or no formal training in this field, and p…
What is Christian Education
Over the past two years Practical Anthropology has had an exchange of discussion on the nature and relevance of Christian education in the Cross-cultural situation. It started with an editorial which posed very briefly the problem of the effectiveness of our witness to bring to men an understanding of God and of their relation to him. 1 It continued when William J. Samarin raised the question of goals for Christian education among non-Christian p…
Religious Systems and Allegiance to Christ
Making and Keeping Anthropological Field Notes
The individual who is resident among the people of another culture, even though he is not a professional anthropologist, has marvelous opportunities for observation, for casual or intensive interviewing, and for other ways of gaining extensive information about the people around him and their way of life. He often has a very real advantage over many professional anthropologists in the possibility of such contacts over a period of many years. Only…
Modern Asians and Western Churches
As a missionary in his first year, eager to apply the “indigenous principle,” I have been hearing but one thing lately: “The trend is to become Western.” It is my impression that this is far too much a rationalization on the part of missionaries. Of course, I realize that “if the natives want to ‘go Western,’ the indigenous thing to do is to let them make that choice.” But long before they make such a choice, it seems that the missionaries mold t…
Music, Church, and Ethnocentrism
It was more by accident than by design that the articles which comprise this special issue on “Developing Hymnology in New Churches” have been brought together. They all came to my attention about the same time, and they have been published together because they rather complement each other
A Case of Unity, if Not Ecumenicity
Practical Anthropology” Content and Style
As Practical Anthropology grow, the range of potential contributors to its pages is also growing. So does the range of content. While we are most anxious for just such a widening representation of author and content. PA does have a definite purpose, and a definite personality which we try to maintain. In the following paragraphs we will outline for authors and reviewers some of the elements of that purpose and personality with suggestions for the…
Outline of Khmu? Structure
Outline of Khmu? Structure
A Dictionary of Modern Spoken Mon
Mon-Khmer Studies I
Change of Editorship
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