Comments on: Wartime Anthropological Linguistics /2007/03/15/wartime-anthropological-linguistics/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology Fri, 08 Dec 2017 18:00:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.1 By: Steve St. Clair /2007/03/15/wartime-anthropological-linguistics/comment-page-1/#comment-250356 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:21:02 +0000 /2007/03/15/wartime-anthropological-linguistics/#comment-250356 I’m part of a group who is very interested in early trans-Atlantic contact. We’re actively arranging what we hope will become an all-encompassing conference including the best individuals to discuss their work in any field that might impact current thinking on early trans-Atlantic contact.

We’re calling it the Atlantic Conference. It’s scheduled for August 15-17, 2008 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. We’re getting great interest from very qualified individuals including Dr. Dennis Stanford, Chairman of the Anthropology Department at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution. Dr. Stanford has done groundbreaking work on pre-Clovis exploration of North America; Dr. Benjamin Olshin, Professor of Philosophy, History, and History of Science at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. And many others.

Please visit our website at –
http://www.AtlanticConference.org/
to learn more.

We’re actively seeking experts to share their latest research from any area that might impact the area of early trans-Atlantic contact – Linguistics, Archaeology, Ancient Seafaring, Pictographs, Native Studies, DNA Genetics, etc.

If you can suggest any speaker from your group, I would be much indebted to you. And, of course, if anyone from your group would wish to attend, you’re very welcome.

Kind Regards,

Steve St. Clair
The Atlantic Conference

]]> By: Intellectuals and war « ubikcan /2007/03/15/wartime-anthropological-linguistics/comment-page-1/#comment-61614 Sun, 25 Mar 2007 18:25:14 +0000 /2007/03/15/wartime-anthropological-linguistics/#comment-61614 […] The relationship between intellectuals such as anthropologists or geographers in wartime activities is a thorny one. […]

]]> By: Lem /2007/03/15/wartime-anthropological-linguistics/comment-page-1/#comment-58890 Sun, 18 Mar 2007 13:29:01 +0000 /2007/03/15/wartime-anthropological-linguistics/#comment-58890 Several months ago I read sections from the final manuscript of David Price’s soon to be published next book (is it released in the U.S. yet?) on anthropologists in the second world war. His chapter on linguistic anthropologists in the war has more on Haas, Swadesh and others, and I was surprised to learn just how widespread such relationships were.

]]> By: Jason Baird Jackson /2007/03/15/wartime-anthropological-linguistics/comment-page-1/#comment-57121 Fri, 16 Mar 2007 00:57:04 +0000 /2007/03/15/wartime-anthropological-linguistics/#comment-57121 It is true that wartime Thai studies played a major role in reshaping Haas’ personal and professional life. Oral history among her students and her student’s students paints a reasonably clear picture of Kroeber’s non-support of (hostility toward?) Haas at Berkeley. This seems to have been a factor in the emergence of a separate linguistics program there. Before the war Haas was un/under-employed doing (important) field research on Southeastern Indian languages in Oklahoma and elsewhere in the Southeastern U.S. She suffered greatly before the war as a woman academic (getting passed up for jobs she wanted and was clearly qualified for), particularly when she was married to Morris Swadesh. She wanted an academic job but could not break in. (The Swadesh tie also opens a connection to discussion (a la Price’s book Threatening Anthropology) of the government (esp. FBI) persecution of progressive anthropologists.) More robust biographical information on Haas is available in volume 39, number 4 (winter 1997) of the journal Anthropological Linguistics–a special issue devoted to Haas’ work, life, and influence. A table of contents for this is available online. Her NAS biographical sketch by Kenneth Pike is available in full online.

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