Indigenous Mesoamerican writing systems, course
Sistemas de escritura indígena mesoamericana, curso
Object Details
| Subject Language | Multiple Epi-Olmec Mayan Mixtec Nahuatl |
| Language PID(s) | ailla:119562 ailla:119866 ailla:119689 ailla:119677 ailla:119659 |
| Title [Indigenous] | |
| Language of Indigenous Title | |
| Title | Indigenous Mesoamerican writing systems, course |
| Language Community | |
| Country(ies) | United States |
| Place Created | Pittsburgh, PA |
| Date Created | 1994-00-00 |
| Description [Indigenous] | |
| Language of Indigenous Description | |
| Description | These sound files are recordings of Dr. Kaufman's lectures for the Indigenous Mesoamerican Writing Systems class that he gave at the University of Pittsburgh during the fall semester in 1994. The class was listed as Anthropology 1446 & Linguistics 1446: Topics in Anthropological Linguistics. The writing systems covered in the course include Mayan, Epi-Olmec, Zapotec, Mixtec, and Aztec. There are only 2 textual documents. I043 is a course announcement and description; I044 is a handout for the class. The lectures were originally recorded on cassette tapes. Each tape was labelled with "MA Writing" and the date of the lecture. In the contents list below, the letters A and B refer to the A and B sides of the original cassette. I001: MA writing, 1 September 1994 A I002: MA writing, 1 September 1994 B I003: MA writing, 6 September 1994 A I004: MA writing, 6 September 1994 B I005: MA writing, 8 September 1994 A I006: MA writing, 8 September 1994 B I007: MA writing, 13 September 1994 A I008: MA writing, 13 September 1994 B I009: MA writing, 15 September 1994 A I010: MA writing, 15 September 1994 B I011: MA writing, 20 September 1994 A (Tape label says "weak batteries") I012: MA writing, 22 September 1994 A I013: MA writing, 22 September 1994 B I014: MA writing, 26 September 1994 A I015: MA writing, 29 September 1994 A I016: MA writing, 29 September 1994 B I017: MA writing, 3 October 1994 A I018: MA writing, 3 October 1994 B I019: MA writing, 6 October 1994 A I020: MA writing, 6 October 1994 B I021: MA writing, 14 October 1994 A I022: MA writing, 14 October 1994 B I023: MA writing, 18 October 1994 A I024: MA writing, 18 October 1994 B I025: MA writing, 20 October 1994 A I026: MA writing, 20 October 1994 B I027: MA writing, 24 October 1994 A The cassette tape labeled 27 October 1994 was blank. I028: MA writing, 3 November 1994 A I029: MA writing, 3 November 1994 B I030: MA writing, 8 November 1994 A I031: MA writing, 8 November 1994 B I032: MA writing, 8 November 1994 A (A second cassette tape was needed to finish recording on Nov. 8, 1994. The B-side was not used.) I033: MA writing, 15 November 1994 A I034: MA writing, 15 November 1994 B I035: MA writing, 6 December 1994 A I036: MA writing, 6 December 1994 B I037: MA writing, 8 December 1994 A I038: MA writing, 8 December 1994 B I039: MA writing, 12 December 1994 A I040: MA writing, 12 December 1994 B I041: MA writing, 15 December 1994 A I042: MA writing, 15 December 1994 B I043: Course Announcement I044: This appears to be a class handout dated September 23, 1994. The top line reads "filenameVB-AS-N" and the first heading says "When spellings of verbs are read as the corresponding verbal nouns." MAWRIT00: syllabus for course in 2000 MAWRIT02: syllabus for course in 2002 |
| Genres | Educational material |
| Source Note | MA_Writing_1994 |
| References | |
| Contributor(s) Individual / Role | Kaufman, Terrence (Researcher) |
| Contributor(s) Corporate / Role |
