RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 A History of Eyak Language Documentation and Study: Fredericæ de Laguna in Memoriam
JF Arctic Anthropology
JO Arctic Anthropol
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 172
OP 217
DO 10.1353/arc.2011.0095
VO 43
IS 2
A1 Michael E. Krauss
YR 2006
UL http://aa.uwpress.org/content/43/2/172.abstract
AB Frederica de Laguna is generally considered the person who “discovered” Eyak. This paper chronicles a parade of characters who recorded Eyak in (over 9) vocabularies (1778–1862) and even phonographically (1899); more who defined or mapped it, even (1863) in color. Freddy’s fieldwork of the 1930s is then discussed, and finally that of linguists after her (1940–2006). This is a history full of ironies that should entertain the reader appreciative of humanistics, human foibles, and the history of science.↵Michael E. Krauss, Alaska Native Language Center University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska 99775-7680