J V Powell
Biographic Data
| ID | 149233 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J V Powell |
| GIVEN NAMES | J V |
| FAMILY NAME | Powell |
| SIGNATURE | POWELL J V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Building Paper Embassies
The late 1640s and 1650s in England witnessed a growing popular interest in letters of state, attested by collections such as Cabala, Mysteries of State, in Letters of the great Ministers of K. James and K. Charles (1653), which promises that ministers of state will be “presented naked, their Consultations, Designs, Policies ... exposed to every mans eye.” Then in 1655, Cabala stationers Bedell and Collins arranged for the printing of another vol…
Court Politics, Culture and Literature in Scotland and England, 1500–1540
Jon Robinson. Court Politics, Culture and Literature in Scotland and England, 1500–1540. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2008. xi + 186 pp. index. bibl. $99.95. ISBN: 978–0–7546–6079–8. - Volume 62 Issue 2
The Social Art: Language and Its Uses
The Social Art: Language and Its Uses. Ronald Macauley. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. 241 pp
A Historic Addendum on the Relationship of Anthropologists and Indian Communities
While working on a dictionary of the Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka or Aht) language in 1992, I spent some time in Port Albemi, B.C., consulting with an old man named Charlie Watts. He told me that he was born in 1917 and added, ”My father, Sayaachapas,worked with Dr. Sapir. I was here in the 1940s when Morris Swadesh came out with his two little girls and his wife Frances. They lived in that cabin right over there. Besides working with the Old People, h…
To See Ourselves as Others See Us
sWhile doing fieldwork among the Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) of British Columbia, the author encountered a copy of a 50-year-old letter written by members of that tribe to protest the firing of Morris Swadesh by City College of New York, which followed Swadesh's indictment by the McCarthy Committee. The incident provides an outsider's view of the American Anthropological Association's handling of the matter and possibly suggests an evaluative metric …
Papers of the Twenty-First Algonquian Conference
Papers of the Nineteenth Algonquian Conference
Chinook Jargon Vocabulary and the Lexicographers
Language and the prehistory of North America
This paper addresses some of the problems involved in correlating a language spoken in the past with a particular archaeological site or geographical location, within the context of North America. It discusses both the values and limitations of linguistic data in attempting to assign a language to a particular location in prehistoric times or arrive at archaeological site/language correlations. Speculations regarding the area in which the ancestr…
Language and the prehistory of North America
This paper addresses some of the problems involved in correlating a language spoken in the past with a particular archaeological site or geographical location, within the context of North America. It discusses both the values and limitations of linguistic data in attempting to assign a language to a particular location in prehistoric times or arrive at archaeological site/language correlations. Speculations regarding the area in which the ancestr…
Chinook Jargon Vocabulary and the Lexicographers
The Social Art: Language and Its Uses
The Social Art: Language and Its Uses. Ronald Macauley. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. 241 pp
Language and the prehistory of North America
This paper addresses some of the problems involved in correlating a language spoken in the past with a particular archaeological site or geographical location, within the context of North America. It discusses both the values and limitations of linguistic data in attempting to assign a language to a particular location in prehistoric times or arrive at archaeological site/language correlations. Speculations regarding the area in which the ancestr…
Papers of the Nineteenth Algonquian Conference
Chinook Jargon Vocabulary and the Lexicographers
Papers of the Twenty-First Algonquian Conference
A Historic Addendum on the Relationship of Anthropologists and Indian Communities
While working on a dictionary of the Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka or Aht) language in 1992, I spent some time in Port Albemi, B.C., consulting with an old man named Charlie Watts. He told me that he was born in 1917 and added, ”My father, Sayaachapas,worked with Dr. Sapir. I was here in the 1940s when Morris Swadesh came out with his two little girls and his wife Frances. They lived in that cabin right over there. Besides working with the Old People, h…
To See Ourselves as Others See Us
sWhile doing fieldwork among the Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) of British Columbia, the author encountered a copy of a 50-year-old letter written by members of that tribe to protest the firing of Morris Swadesh by City College of New York, which followed Swadesh's indictment by the McCarthy Committee. The incident provides an outsider's view of the American Anthropological Association's handling of the matter and possibly suggests an evaluative metric …
The Social Art: Language and Its Uses
The Social Art: Language and Its Uses. Ronald Macauley. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. 241 pp
Court Politics, Culture and Literature in Scotland and England, 1500–1540
Jon Robinson. Court Politics, Culture and Literature in Scotland and England, 1500–1540. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2008. xi + 186 pp. index. bibl. $99.95. ISBN: 978–0–7546–6079–8. - Volume 62 Issue 2
Building Paper Embassies
The late 1640s and 1650s in England witnessed a growing popular interest in letters of state, attested by collections such as Cabala, Mysteries of State, in Letters of the great Ministers of K. James and K. Charles (1653), which promises that ministers of state will be “presented naked, their Consultations, Designs, Policies ... exposed to every mans eye.” Then in 1655, Cabala stationers Bedell and Collins arranged for the printing of another vol…
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