MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Title:
Dates:
1934-1985
Abstract:
Trained as an anthropologist at Berkeley under A.L. Kroeber and Robert Lowie, Carl Voegelin spent the majority of his career as a structural linguist specializing in Algonquian languages, including Delaware, Potawatomi, Fox, Menominee, and Shawnee, and on the Seneca, Ojibwa (Chippewa), and Blackfoot (Siksika). His most significant contributions came through his studies of Delaware, Shawnee, and Hopi, but he is also credited with reviving the International Journal of American Linguistics after the death of its founder, Franz Boas, and with nurturing the program in anthropology at Indiana University, where he was on faculty from 1941 until his retirement in 1976.
The Voegelin collection contains field notes, lexical files, notebooks, papers, correspondence, and other materials relating to Voegelin's work on Native American languages. The bulk of the collection concerns Delaware and Shawnee, but there is significant material for Blackfoot, Menominee, Ojibwa and Potawatomi, Seneca, and Penobscot. Notes on Turkish, kept during the Second World War, are also present. Among other important series in the collection are Voegelin's correspondence and notes concerning two of his major projects: the translation and interpretation of the Walam Olam and his study of Shawnee law. Correspondents include Leonard Bloomfield, Eli Lilly, and Morris Swadesh. A portion of the collection is indexed in Kendall (1982).
Call #:
Mss.Ms.Coll.68
Extent:
34.5 Linear feet
Subjects:
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Ainu language | Algonquian Indians | Algonquian languages | Anishinaabe | Blackfoot language | Card files. | Chippewa language | Chomsky, Noam | Delaware language | Field notes. | Fox language | Gelatin silver prints | Gumperz, John J. (John Joseph), 1922-2013 | Hamp, Eric P. | Hodge, C. T. (Carleton Taylor), 1917-1998 | Indians of North America -- Delaware | Indians of North America -- Illinois | Indians of North America -- Indiana | Indians of North America -- Languages | Indians of North America -- New England | Indians of North America -- New Mexico | Indians of North America -- New Mexico -- Languages | Indians of South America | Language and languages -- Classification | Lilly, Eli, 1885-1977 | Linguistics | Maps | Maps. | Menominee language | Navajo Indians | Nitrate negatives | Notebooks | Ojibwa language | Ojibwe people | Potawatomi language | Quechua language | Seneca language | Shawnee language | Siksika language | Sound recordings | Turkish language | Turner, Glen | Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986 | Walam Olum | Witthoft, John