William Jones (anthropologist)

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William Jones (1871-1909) A graduate of Phillips Academy, Andover, in 1896, when he received his PhD from Columbia University, he became the fourth person to receive a PhD in linguistic anthropology, twelfth person to receive a PhD in anthropology, and first Native American PhD in anthropology. Jones was part Fox and a specialist in Algonquian languages, particularly known for his extensive collection of Algonquian texts. He was at one point an assistant curator at the Field Museum in Chicago and died in the Philippines in 1909 having been sent there to do fieldwork.

[edit] Bibliography

  • Jones, William (1904) “Some Principles of Algonquian Word-Formation” American Anthropologist 6: 369-407.

[edit] References

  • Bloomfield, Leonard (1922) “The Owl Sacred Pack of the Fox Indians”The American Journal of Philology 43(3): 276-281
  • Bernstein, Jay H. (2002) “First Recipients of Anthropological Doctorates in the United States, 1891-1930” American Anthropologist 104 (2): 551-564


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