legacy materials

[Aidan Wilson]

"Is anyone aware of any archives that have field notes or recordings 
that are not be utilized?"

PARADISEC http://paradisec.org.au , for one, has plenty of recordings 
and field notes of languages from the pacific region (though not from 
the Americas nor Australia) in the archive that are quite freely 
available on application. The database is available for search on OLAC 
http://www.language-archives.org/tools/search/?archive=paradisec.org.au  
(of which Paradisec is a member), or you can search the database 
directly from here: http://paradisec.org.au/catalog

Just thought I'd let you know.

-Aidan Wilson
(Paradisec employee)

s.t. bischoff wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was wondering if anyone might know of some good resources for finding out
> about various legacy materials in museums, archives, garages, etc. I'm
> wondering if anyone has sat down and done a survey of all the linguistic work
> that has been done on indigenous languages. For example, I've heard that Boas
> left hundreds if not thousands of pages of material on indigenous languages.
> Also, Harrington has quite a reputation for having left field notes in various
> places. Has anyone done a systematic "inventory" of these types of materials,
> or has anyone proposed some way to do such an inventory? Is anyone aware of any
> archives that have field notes or recordings that are not be utilized?
>
> Thanks,
> Shannon
> PS Ives Goddard has a nice survey of linguistic work done in the Americas with
> excellent references in the Handbook of American Indians 17, for those
> interested in these things.
>
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>
> "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly, one begins
> to wish facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts."
>
> --Sherlock Holmes, A Scandal in Bohemia
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