James Kari

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James Kari is a linguist and Professor Emeritus specializing in Athabascan languages of Alaska. In the past twenty-five years he has done extensive linguistic work in many Athabascan languages including Ahtna, Dena'ina, Koyukon, Deg Hit'an, Holikachuk, Tanana, and Upper Tanana. He retired from Alaska Native Language Center of the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 1997 but continues to work on several Alaska Native language projects. He worked with Dena'ina writer and ethnographer Peter Kalifornsky on a compilation of this important ethnographers works.

[edit] Selected Works

• Kari, James. 1975. A classification of the Tanaina dialects. Anthropological Papers of the University of Alaska 17:49-55.
• Kari, James, Priscilla Russell Kari and Jane McGary. 1983. Dena’ina Ełnena: Tanaina Country. Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center. Includes good bibliography and many photographs.

Coeditor of:

• Kalifornsky, Peter. 1991 "K'tl'egh'i Sukdu, A Dena'ina Legacy: The Collected Writings of Peter Kalifornsky" edited by James Kari and Alan Boraas. Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center.