Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology

Project GutenbergProject Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

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English Originals Social Sciences Social ObservationIllustrated GuideAcademic MonographDocumentary AnthologyFieldworkFolk CustomsEthnographyModern China

Summary

Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology by John Wesley PowellAuthor: ,Language: English, Class: PM: Language and Literatures: Indigenous American and Artificial Languages, Release Date: Sep 10, 2008

Editor's review

This book is the seventh annual report of the U.S. Bureau of Ethnology, compiled under the direction of John Wesley Powell, and an important compilation of late nineteenth-century American ethnology and anthropology. Its value lies not in narrative reading but in providing researchers with first-hand observational records, linguistic material and field-survey frameworks, reflecting how scholars of the time systematically organized North American Indigenous languages, customs and social organization. As a public-domain ebook, the text is searchable and citable, suitable for tracing the history of the discipline, supplementing anthropology course materials, or for readers interested in early ethnographic writing conventions. It should be read as historical source material rather than popular literature, with attention to the report's format, classificatory standards and the perspective limits of its recorders, and used alongside later research to appreciate its significance for the history of scholarship.

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  1. Read the table of contents and introduction first to understand the report's scope and format, then closely read chapters relevant to your research.
  2. Keep a notebook of terms, place names and group names for cross-checking against other ethnographic material.
  3. Read alongside modern anthropological methodology to note the perspectives and classificatory limits of early recorders.
  4. If citing in writing, verify original page numbers and edition information; avoid citing secondary summaries.

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FAQ

Is this a complete Chinese translation? No. The ebook is the original English public-domain text, the annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology, with no Chinese translation or introduction; readers need English reading ability.
Can I read it without a background in anthropology? You can browse it, but depth of understanding will be limited. The report contains extensive technical terminology, group names and survey formats; without background knowledge it is easy to see only the material and miss the context, so some grounding in the history of anthropology is advisable.
Is it suitable as a source for direct citation in papers? It can be cited as a primary historical source, but the edition and page numbers must be noted, and because the report was compiled long ago its classifications and wording carry the limits of their era; it is best used in comparison with modern research.

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