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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>John Peabody Harrington was the man who had hidden, in one of his texts
on Tewa, the clue to why Indigenous languages seemed to be so badly
misrepresented. I have used this quote over and over in my papers. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>There are many parts of speech, each of which behaves
differently, and for which we have in English no satisfactory nomenclature.
Perhaps they may all be reduced to ‘nouns,’ ‘pronouns,’
‘verbs,’ and ‘modifying elements’ (Harrington, 1910).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>I don’t have the page number, but here is the source, Harrington,
John (1910). A Brief Description of the Tewa Language. Papers of the School of
American Archeology, No. 17, Washington, D.C. The Smithsonian<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>I remember at the time I was trying to piece together the puzzle pieces
that would tell me why what I could see about AmerInd languages didn't fit with
what people were writing about them. There was this general sense that there
was only on Ontology and one Epistemology. Then, one day a miracle occurred and
I found Harrington. His little clue told me to look for the
(mis)representations, and that my intuitions were correct. From Harrington, I
would Powell, and reading his 1880 Introduction to the Study of Indian
Languages with Words Phrases and Sentences To Be Collected. Washington:
Government Printing Office made everything really, really clear, not only the
words that we have and don't have, and the total disparagement of Indigenous
societies, but also the power issues (Powell was director of the Smithsonian;
it was a polite from of Bowdlerism). <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>I did some research in the summer of 2005, using the Hierarchical
Superiority of the Races metaphor with Conceptual Blending Theory technology as
the method of inquiry to investigate whether anthropological writings can be
filtered out and identified in such a way as to provide a kind of proof of the
omissions caused by the bias and bigotry of the time, as they influenced
academic writing, and it turned out that this worked pretty well. I added the
feminist viewpoint that characteristics can be communicated using grammatical
structure. Here's a small excerpt from that report: <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>The Grammar tree was composed of 3 subnotes: “Active voice
associates primitiveness”; “Passive voice hides skill”; and,
“Pejorative phrase”. Pejorative phrases include “these
Apache”, “all the hostiles”, “in aboriginal
times”, and, “myths, and folk beliefs”.
“Pagan” is popular in the Menominee document. Particular
grammatical forms are also used to conform to cultural expectations and to both
embed and reference cultural codes (<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Stories</span></i>
metanarrative). Active voice is used when the writer wishes to reinforce some
popular aboriginal characterization, as for example “The Apache, however
arrogant may have been his relations with his fellowmen, was entirely cognizant
of his abjectness and dependence before natural forces” (Opler &
Castteter, 1935). Passive voice is used when the writer wishes to disassociate
skillfullness, intelligence or cognitive involvement from the Ndn people, as in
“The lower leg bone of the deer was ground down to make a drill. Later
the iron-tipped arrow was used as a boring tool” (Opler & Castteter,
1935). Overall, Stories, and their components as defined by Carter (1993), are
used frequently to invoke cultural codes and conventions, to offer conjecture,
to imply causality, and to structure time and events.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>So while some people answer the question, Who is John Peabody
Harrington? by saying that he was a man obsessed, in my life, he was the bright
comet who lit the path to understanding. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Mia <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] On
Behalf Of phil cash cash<br>
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 9:13 AM<br>
To: ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU<br>
Subject: [ILAT] Now and Then -- John Peabody Harrington: A man obsessed (fwd
link)</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Now and Then -- John Peabody Harrington: A man obsessed<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>By Nancy Alexander, President, Highland Historical Society, Special to
Highland<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Community News<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Who is John Peabody Harrington?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>He was a linguist and ethnographer, whose obsessive life's work lay not
in a<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>single great discovery, but in the preservation of millions of words
and<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>customs of Native Americans, which even in the early 1900s, were
becoming<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>extinct. His work has become of increasing value to the many Native
American<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>people who are trying to piece together their languages and customs.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Full article link below:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>http://www.highlandnews.net/articles/2008/02/21/entertainment/04harrington.txt<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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