John Alden Mason
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John Alden Mason was an American anthropologist and linguist known for his extensive fieldwork and documentation of Indigenous languages and cultures of the Americas.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Alden Mason canonical | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
anthropologist
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human ⓘ linguist ⓘ |
| academicDegree | PhD in anthropology ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1885-01-14 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1967-11-07 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Colby College
ⓘ
University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| employer |
American Museum of Natural History
ⓘ
Field Museum of Natural History ⓘ Penn Museum ⓘ
surface form:
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
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| fieldOfWork |
American Indigenous languages
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anthropology ⓘ archaeology ⓘ ethnology ⓘ folklore studies ⓘ linguistics ⓘ |
| genre |
ethnography
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linguistic description ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| knownFor |
documentation of Indigenous languages of the Americas
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ethnographic collections from Latin America ⓘ fieldwork on Indigenous peoples of Mexico ⓘ fieldwork on Indigenous peoples of South America ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Anthropological Association
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Linguistic Society of America ⓘ |
| notableFor |
contributions to Americanist linguistics
ⓘ
systematic classification of South American Indian languages ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Myths of the Spaniards in the New World
ⓘ
Handbook of American Indian Languages ⓘ
surface form:
The Languages of the South American Indians
Mexican indigenous languages ⓘ
surface form:
The Native Languages of Mexico
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| occupation |
anthropologist
ⓘ
linguist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Orland, Maine, United States of America ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Philadelphia
ⓘ
surface form:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
|
| positionHeld | Curator of the American Section at the University of Pennsylvania Museum ⓘ |
| studied |
Mayan languages
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South American Indigenous languages ⓘ Uto-Aztecan ⓘ
surface form:
Uto-Aztecan languages
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| workLocation |
Mexico
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Philadelphia ⓘ
surface form:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
South America ⓘ |
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