Dell H. Hymes Homepage at the University of Virginia

[Francis Hult]

Homepage at the University of Virginia

 

Dell H. Hymes

Commonwealth Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus
Ph.D. Indiana University 1955

 

I never know what to say when someone asks what I have done and do. So much of it has depended and depends on circumstances. I have never done anything I would myself describe as theoretical or ethnographic (in a strict sense of either term), although I have often written about ideas, and spent a fair amount of time hanging around Indians. I am interested in what is done in the study of the use of language, oral narrative and poetry, the history of anthropology and linguistics, Native Americans, theology.

 

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