Notice bibliographique
- Notice
Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Gelo, Daniel J. (1957-....)
Wickham, Christopher John (1950-.... ; professeur d'allemand)
Titre(s) : Comanches and Germans on the Texas frontier [Texte imprimé] : the ethnology of Heinrich Berghaus / Daniel J. Gelo and Christopher J. Wickham ; with contributions by Heide Castañeda
Édition : First edition
Publication : College Station : Texas A & M University press, 2018
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xiv, 256 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm
Collection : Elma Dill Russell Spencer series in the west and southwest ; 42
Lien à la collection : Elma Dill Russell Spencer series in the West and Southwest
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
Contains text of Berghaus's 1851 ethnological article, "Über die Verwandtschaft der
Schoschonen, Komantschen und Apatschen" ("On the relationship of the Shoshones, Comanches,
and Apaches"), translated from the German by Christopher J. Wickham.
In 1851, an article appeared in a German journal, Geographisches Jahrbuch (Geographic
Yearbook), that sought to establish definitive connections, using language observations,
among the Comanches, Shoshones, and Apaches. Heinrich Berghaus's study was based on
lexical data gathered by a young German settler in Texas, Emil Kriewitz, and included
a groundbreaking list of Comanche words and their German translations. Berghaus also
offered Kriewitz's cultural notes on the Comanches, a discussion of the existing literature
on the three tribes, and an original map of Comanche hunting grounds. Perhaps because
it was published only in German, the existence of Berghaus's study has been all but
unknown to North American scholars, even though it offers valuable insights into Native
American languages, toponyms, ethnonyms, hydronyms, and cultural anthropology. It
was also a significant document revealing the history of German-Comanche relations
in Texas. Daniel J. Gelo and Christopher J. Wickham now make available for the first
time a reliable English translation of this important nineteenth-century document.
In addition to making the article accessible to English speakers, they also place
Berghaus's work into historical context and provide detailed commentary on its value
for anthropologists and historians who study German settlement in Texas
Sujet(s) : Berghaus, Henrich (1797-1884)
Comanche (langue) -- Étymologie
Comanches (Indiens) -- Texas (États-Unis) -- 19e siècle
Géographes allemands -- Texas (États-Unis) -- 19e siècle
Indice(s) Dewey :
976.400 497 (23e éd.) = Histoire - États-Unis - Texas - Étude en relation avec les Amérindiens du Nord
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781623495947. - ISBN 1623495946. - ISBN 9781623495954 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46873180m
Notice n° :
FRBNF46873180
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction: Comanches and Germans in central Texas ; Berghaus and German contributions
to American ethnology ; Who was Heinrich Berghaus? ; Berghaus and Humboldt ; Berghaus's
Physikalischer Atlas ; Berghaus's interest in ethnology ; Berghaus's ideology ;
Evaluating Berghaus's achievement ; Who was Emil Kriewitz? ; Berghaus and the development
of American anthropology ; Berghaus's 1851 ethnological article ; The 1851 article
in translation ; Commentary on the 1851 article ; The Berghaus glossary and map
; The glossary: an overview ; Comanche glossary ; Historical analysis of the Berghaus
map
