John Alden Mason

E366755

John Alden Mason was an American anthropologist and linguist known for his extensive fieldwork and documentation of Indigenous languages and cultures of the Americas.

Try in SPARQL Jump to: Surface forms Statements Referenced by

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
John Alden Mason canonical 1

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf anthropologist
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
fieldOfWork American Indigenous languages
anthropology
archaeology
ethnology
folklore studies
linguistics
genre ethnography
linguistic description
hasGender male
knownFor documentation of Indigenous languages of the Americas
ethnographic collections from Latin America
fieldwork on Indigenous peoples of Mexico
fieldwork on Indigenous peoples of South America
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf American Anthropological Association
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
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
South American Indigenous languages
Uto-Aztecan
surface form: Uto-Aztecan languages
workLocation Mexico
Philadelphia
surface form: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

South America

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Salinan language documentedBy John Alden Mason