Manhart editing

[Anthony Grant]

Well put, Bob!

>>> "Rankin, Robert L" <rankin at KU.EDU> 25/09/2011 00:02 >>>
Father Manhart attended a couple of the early Siouan Conferences and
gave short papers.  There were a few covert comments about "homilies"
and the like, and I'm afraid he probably wasn't made to feel
particularly welcome.  But both Jan and Wally are right.  Our
predecessors were almost all "talented amateurs".  Horatio Hale, James
Owen Dorsey, and Francis Laflesche were among them.  Others were
primarily ethnographers who documented languages out of a sense of duty,
John R. Swanton, and Robert Lowie among them.  Where would we be without
them?  We'd know next to nothing about Tutelo, Ofo, Biloxi, Quapaw and
several other languages, and those of us studying Kansa, Omaha, Ponca,
and Osage would have had to start virtually from scratch.  It's true
that they all made their share of mistakes for us to try to sort out,
but that's the history of scientific inquiry.  I've spent enormous
amounts of time trying to correct the transcription errors in Dorsey and
add things like vowel le!
 ngth, but without Dorsey's manuscript materials to work from, my own
data collection for Kansa would have been poor indeed.  I guess Newton's
famous quotation sums it up:  "If I have seen further it is only by
standing on the shoulders of giants."

Bob



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