Eskimo Tribes – Their Distribution and Characteristics, Specially in Regard to Language. With a Comparative Vocabularly, and a Sketch–Map: Their ... a Sketch-Map: 11 (Monographs on Greenland) - Softcover

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9788763514064: Eskimo Tribes – Their Distribution and Characteristics, Specially in Regard to Language. With a Comparative Vocabularly, and a Sketch–Map: Their ... a Sketch-Map: 11 (Monographs on Greenland)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 8763514060 ISBN 13: 9788763514064
Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2017

Synopsis

The purpose of the first section of this book is to show what conclusions it is possible to draw from the mode of life, the customs and usages of the Eskimo, so far as regards the migrations by which they have spread over their present territory. But is is not intended to go farther back than the commencement of this dispersion.

The purpose of the second section is, in the first place, as an introduction, to continue the conclusions and usages of the Eskimo mentioned in the former part, adding one apparently safe inference from their language, concerning their homestead before their dispersion. Then, as the main object follows the Comparative Vocabulary of the Dialects. In the former part it is tried to give the elements, out of which the words are formed, and the rules for employing this material. In the present part a selection of the words themselves is compiled.

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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Publication date
2017
Language
English
ISBN 10 
8763514060
ISBN 13 
9788763514064
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
316