Fwd: biographical information about Dell Hymes

[Barbara Johnstone]

Here is an unordered list of the suggestions I received.  Many thanks
to everyone for being so quick and generous!

Barbara

Dell was the Voeglins' student at Indiana, I think, but his encounter
there (during summers?) with Kenneth Burke was important.


Dell H. Hymes Papers, American Philosophical Society
http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/mole/h/hymes.htm


*Hornberger, Nancy H. 2001. Hymes, Dell Hathaway (1927- ). In Concise
Encyclopedia of Sociolinguistics, edited by Rajend Mesthrie and R. E.
Asher, pp. 882. New York: Elsevier.

Hornberger, N. H. (1999). Hymes, Dell Hathaway. Concise Encyclopedia
of Educational Linguistics. B. Spolsky. Oxford, Elsevier Science:
765-766.


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*Excerpts (see especially pages 100-101):
Murray, Stephen O. 1998. American Sociolinguistics: Theorists and
Theory Groups. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
http://books.google.com/books?id=q_5wAAAAIAAJ&q=American+Sociolinguistics:+Theorists+and+Theory+Groups&dq=American+Sociolinguistics:+Theorists+and+Theory+Groups&pgis=1

The Biographical dictionary of social and cultural anthropology
(London, New York Taylor & Francis Routledge, 2004) has an entry for
him. Probably has most of that stuff -- and I think it's available
online.

There is an entry for Hymes in Spolsky's (1999) 'Concise Encyclopedia
of Educational Linguistics':
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bookdescription.cws_home/601516/description#description

The following from our Regenstein Library catalogue:
 1.

Title:  Biographical dictionary of social and cultural
anthropology / edited by Vered Amit.
Imprint:        London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
Description:    xxii, 613 p. ; 26 cm.
Subject(s):     Anthropologists -- Biography -- Dictionaries.
Ethnologists -- Biography -- Dictionaries.
 2.
Title:  The Routledge dictionary of anthropologists / Gérald
Gaillard ; translated by James Bowman.
Author:         Gaillard, Gérald.
Uniform Title:  Dictionnaire des ethnologues et des
anthropologues. English
Imprint:        London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
Description:    xi, 394 p. ; 26 cm.
Subject(s):     Anthropologists -- Biography -- Dictionaries.

Also note that there is a charming article by Rob Moore in the
Autumn 2008 issue of the Reed Alumni Magazine, and Jan
Blommaert and others have done a full issue of something or
other in Europe on Dell.
You probably know Stephen O. Murray's two books relevant here,
with lots of biographical detail.

And, last but (maybe) not least, Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_Hymes




---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Barbara Johnstone <bj4 at andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 11:05 AM
Subject: biographical information about Dell Hymes?
To: LINGANTH at listserv.linguistlist.org


Are there any sources (encyclopedias, for example) of basic
biographical information about Hymes -- where he studied, who he
studied with, etc.?  Please respond directly to me; I'll post a list
if I end up with one.  Thanks.

Barbara Johnstone

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Department of English
Carnegie Mellon University
http://english.cmu.edu/people/faculty/homepages/johnstone/default.html
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-- 
Barbara Johnstone
Department of English
Carnegie Mellon University
http://english.cmu.edu/people/faculty/homepages/johnstone/default.html
bj4 at andrew.cmu.edu