Indigenous Language Articles?

s.t. bischoff bischoff.st at GMAIL.COM
Thu Aug 7 23:19:06 UTC 2008


Thanks William, that is a really good idea. I have the Volume and love the
map, I've been meaning to frame it. I will certainly use in the class now
that I know you can buy it.

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 4:32 PM, William J Poser <wjposer at ldc.upenn.edu>wrote:

> Not an article exactly, but for such a course you'll very likely
> want a map showing where the languages are. By far the best such map
> in my opinion is the one in the back pocket of Volume 17 of the Handbook
> of North American Indians, created by Ives Goddard at the Smithsonian.
> The map actually comes in two versions. There is a wall-sized version that
> is available from Amazon.com. However, that tends to get beat up (I haven't
> found a place that can laminate my copy), and students can't really make
> out much if you put it up at the front of a classroom. It is also possible
> to buy the smaller version of the map that comes with the Handbook, but
> Amazon.com and such places appear not to carry the small version. For the
> small version, you need to go to the publisher, which is the University of
> Nebraska Press. They not only have both versions, but their price for the
> wall-sized version was much lower than the price elsewhere the last time
> I checked. The small version is cheap enough (around $5.00) that you can
> provide one for every student if your class isn't too large.
>
> Bill
>
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