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Archeology Of Mississippi
1926057931University Ms: Mississippi Geological Survey 1926. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illustrations In Text. Xii 372 Pp. Maroon Cloth Gilt. First Printing 1926 Dates On Title And Copyright Pages. Near Fine Cover Gilt Brilliant Spine Gilt Complete And Clear.Hinges Tight No Marks Remarkably Well Preserved With No Water Damage. Ownership Signature Of John R. Swanton. Per Wikipedia John Reed Swanton 1873 -1958 Was An American Anthropologist Folklorist And Linguist Who Worked With Native American Peoples Throughout The United States. Within Months Of Receiving His Doctorate From Harvard Swanton Began Working For The Bureau Of American Ethnology Of The Smithsonian Institution In Washington Dc At Which He Continued For The Duration Of His Career Spanning More Than 40 Years. Swanton First Did Fieldwork In The Northwest. In His Early Career He Worked Mostly With The Tlingit And Haida. He Produced Two Extensive Compilations Of Haida Stories And Myths And Transcribed Many Of Them Into Haida. Another Major Study Area Was Of The Muskogean-Speaking Peoples In Texas Louisiana And Oklahoma. Swanton Published Extensively On The Creek People Chickasaw And Choctaw. He Also Documented Analyses About Many Other Less Well-Known Groups Such As The Biloxi Ofo And Tunica The Last Of Which Supplemented Earlier Work By Albert Samuel Gatschet. He Worked With Natchez Speaker Watt Sam And Argued In Favor Of Including The Natchez Language With The Muskogean Language Group. Swanton Wrote Works Including Partial Dictionaries Studies Of Linguistic Relationships Collections Of Native Stories And Studies Of Social Organization. He Worked With Earnest Gouge A Creek Who Recorded A Large Number Of Traditional Stories At Swanton's Request. These Materials Were Never Published By Swanton.They Have Recently Been Published Online As Creek Folktales By Earnest Gouge. Swanton Also Worked With The Caddo And Published Briefly On The Quipu System Of The Inca. Swanton Was One Of The Founding Members Of The Swedenborg Scientific Association In 1898. He Was President Of The American Anthropological Association In 1932. He Also Served As Editor Of The American Anthropological Association's Flagship Journal American Anthropologist In 1911 And From 1921 To 1923. Swanton Was Also A Member Of The American Folklore Society Serving As Its President In 1909. Also Per Wikipedia The Author Calvin Smith Brown Iii 1866- After His Graduation From Vanderbilt Studied At The Universities Of Paris And Leipzig 1894-1895 And Then Returned To Pursue A Ph.D. In Comparative Literature At The University Of Colorado. Brown Assumed The Post Of Assistant Professor Of Romance Languages At The University Of Mississippi Where He Remained For The Rest Of His Academic Life. He Taught German French And Italian And Eventually Became The Chair Of The Department Of Modern Languages. While Brown'S Professional Duties Were In Modern Languages He Continued To Pursue His Interests In The Sciences Publishing A Monograph On The Lignite Of Mississippi In 1907 As Well As Essays On The "Botany Of Tishomingo State Park" On "Landscaping With Native Plants" And On The Petrified Forest Of Mississippi. Mississippi Initiated A Geological Survey Of The State In The Early Twentieth-Century And Brown Assumed The Title Of "Archaeologist" For The Project. Brown Began Photographing Mound Sites As Early As 1912 And For The Next Fourteen Years He Amassed An Impressive Collection Of Photographs And Artifacts While Documenting His Work With Multiple Records. The End Result Of Brown'S Labors Was His Book The Archaeology Of Mississippi 1926 Which Is Now Recognized As One Of The Pioneering Works Of Its Kind. <br/> <br/> Mississippi Geological Survey hardcover
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