33.1795, Books: The Autobiography of a Meskwaki Woman: Goddard

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Date: Thu, 19 May 2022 12:47:56
From: Joshua Snider [mundartpress at yahoo.com]
Subject: The Autobiography of a Meskwaki Woman: Goddard

 


Title: The Autobiography of a Meskwaki Woman 
Subtitle: A New Edition and Translation 
Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Mundart Press
	   
	

Book URL: https://www.amazon.com/Autobiography-Meskwaki-Woman-New-Translation/dp/0990334481/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=lGG1k&pf_rd_p=bbb6bbd8-d236-47cb-b42f-734cb0cacc1f&pf_rd_r=QREE0GSHP1HP044PRTTK&pd_rd_r=aceb05fd-3890-4a7c-b2c8-6b986f6c1d26&pd_rd_wg=tmzqW&ref_=pd_gw_ci_mcx_mi 


Translator: Ives Goddard

Paperback: ISBN:  9780990334484 Pages: 232 Price: U.S. $ $25.00


Abstract:

This is an edition and translation of an autobiographical account written in
the Meskwaki language in 1918 by an anonymous Meskwaki woman. The writer
describes how she was brought up and taught useful skills, and she talks
frankly about her personal life, which included three marriages. The original
manuscript is written in the alphabetic syllabary that the Meskwakis began
using in the last decades of the nineteenth century. It is in the National
Anthropological Archives of the Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian
Institution. It was originally published, with a few small omissions, by
Truman Michelson in 1925. The present edition, while heavily indebted to the
earlier work, has been revised on the basis of an examination of the
manuscript, and a fresh translation has been prepared based on fieldwork with
Meskwaki speakers. In this edition each line of the text is accompanied by an
interlinear labeling and analysis of every word, and an appendix lists and
analyzes every ending and ending complex. The running translation is
italicized to make it possible to easily follow just the English all the way
through. Copious textual notes, given separately, annotate details of
transcription, pronunciation, and translation, including variant renderings
and interpretations of different speakers and sources. The words in this text
may be found in A Meskwaki-English and English-Meskwaki Dictionary, by Ives
Goddard and Lucy Thomason (Mundart Press, 2014). This provides a practical
spelling of the words with no technical symbols except for the long-vowel mark
(^). Meskwaki (earlier called Fox) is the heritage language of the Meskwaki
Nation (officially named the Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa),
whose lands are in Tama County, Iowa. This Mundart Press reprint is a
photographic facsimile of the original edition that appeared as Algonquian and
Iroquoian Linguistics Memoir 18 (Winnipeg, 2006).
 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Language Documentation

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     Meskwaki (sac)


Written In: English  (eng)

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