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Some Relations of Linguistics and Ethnology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

A. L. Kroeber
A. L. Kroeber*
Affiliation:
University of California
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Extract

[The paper illustrates the multiple relations of linguistics and ethnology by several discrete problems. See the last paragraph.]

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Research Article
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Language , Volume 17 , Issue 4-Part1: October-December , December 1941, pp. 287 - 291
Copyright
Copyright © 1941 by the Linguistic Society of America

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Footnotes

1

Presidential address read at the 17th annual meeting of the Linguistic Society, December 1940.

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12 F. Boas, Lang. 5.1–7 (1929); reprinted in Race, Language and Culture 219–25 (1940).