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Oswald Werner's Degrees

PhD Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Linguistics University of Chicago
Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Oswald J. Werner , better known as Ossy Werner, was a Czechoslovakian-born American linguist. He was Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics for thirty years at Northwestern University and retired in 1998 as Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Linguistics. During this period he researched the Navajo language and culture. Although specializing in their medicine and science, he impacted anthropology, linguistics, ethnography, ethnographic methodology, ethnoscience, and cognitive anthropology.

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Oswald Werner's Published Works

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The Construction of Primary Data in Cultural Anthropology (1986) (117)
Speculations on the growth of ethnobotanical nomenclature (1972) (73)
Systematic Fieldwork. Vol. I: Foundations of Ethnography and Interviewing. (1989) (36)
Foundations of ethnography and interviewing (1987) (29)
Linguistics and anthropology : in honor of C.F. Voegelin (1977) (21)
Navaho Systems of Classification: Some Implications for Ethnoscience (1969) (19)
Ethnographic analysis and data management (1987) (18)
The Basic Assumptions of Ethnoscience (1969) (17)
The Synthetic Informant Model on the Simulation of Large Lexical/Semantic Fields (1978) (17)
Short Take 13 (1994) (16)
A Taxonomic View Of The Traditional Navajo Universe (1983) (12)
Explaining Explanation: Tension in American Anthropology (1978) (12)
SOME NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN ETHNOSEMANTICS AND THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF LEXICAL/SEMANTIC FIELDS (1974) (10)
Semantics of Navaho Medical Terms: I (1965) (8)
A Lexemic Typology of Navajo Anatomical Terms I: The Foot (1970) (8)
Ethnographic Mapmaking: Part 1—Principles (2001) (7)
How to Reduce an Unwritten Language to Writing: I (2000) (7)
Ethnographic Debriefing (1999) (6)
Short Take 24: Do We Need Standards for Ethnography? (1998) (5)
How to Reduce an Unwritten Language to Writing: II. Consonants (2000) (4)
How to teach a network: minimal design features for a cultural acquisition device or C-KAD (1989) (4)
Short Take 7: How to Record Activities (1992) (3)
Short Take 26: Ethnographic Photographs Converted to Line Drawings (1998) (3)
How to Reduce an Unwritten Language to Writing: III. Phonetic Similarity, Suspicious Pairs, and Minimal Pairs (2001) (3)
Ethnographic Mapmaking: Part 2—Practical Concerns and Triangulation (2001) (3)
Anthropology and Linguistics (1965) (3)
Short Take 10: Semantic Accent and Folk Definitions (1993) (2)
Notation for Transcribing Conversations and Interviews (1996) (2)
Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology. H. Russel Bernard (1999) (2)
Ethnographers, Language Skills and Translation (2003) (2)
When Recording Is Impossible (1999) (1)
Short Take 11: Constructed Folk Definitions From Interviews (1993) (1)
Short Take 23: Protection of Human Subjects and Ethnographic Photography (1997) (1)
Short Take 19: Ethnographic Photography. Part 1 (1996) (1)
Short Take 25: Referencing Native Consultants' (1998) (1)
Short Take 16: Stimulus Translation and Ethnography (1995) (1)
Short Take 15: The Case for Verbatim Cases (1995) (1)
Short Take 21: Multistage Translation (1997) (1)
Short Take 22: Converting Decision Tables to Flow Charts with DTREDUCER (1997) (1)
Short Take 12 (1994) (1)
Communication and Culture: Readings in the Codes of Human Interaction ALFRED G. SMITH, ed (1967) (1)
How to Reduce an Unwritten Language to Writing: V. Problems with Phonemes (2002) (1)
How to Reduce an Unwritten Language to Writing: IV. Complementary Distribution (2002) (1)
Short Take 20: Native Outlines for Ethnographies (1996) (0)
Short Take 8: Hapax Legomenon: First Steps in Analyzing Your Interviews (1992) (0)
Tension in A merican A nthropology 1 (2008) (0)
Short Take 17 How to Design Fonts in Navajo (or in any other language) Using FONTOGRAPHER 4.1 (1995) (0)
Linguistics: Computers in Language Research. Walter A. Sedelow and Sally Y. Sedelow. (1981) (0)
Short Takes (1990) (0)
The World Takes a Stand (2002) (0)
The Navajo Atlas: Environment, Resources, People, and History of Diné Bikeyah. JAMES M. GOODMAN (1984) (0)
The Formal Content of Ethnography. Philip K. Bock (1987) (0)
Uses of a Fish-Eye Lens (2000) (0)
Teaching English to Speakers of Choctaw, Navajo and Papago; A Contrastive Approach. Indian Education Curriculum Bulletin No. 6 [Part II, English for Speakers of Navajo]. (1969) (0)
Design Your Own Exotic Alphabet (1990) (0)
Volume Information (1966) (0)
Semantics and Translation (1977) (0)
Volume Information (1969) (0)
Translating Cultures: Perspectives on Translation and Anthropology. Paula G. Rubel , Abraham Rosman (2004) (0)
Systematized Lexicography or "Ethnoscience" (1967) (0)
Short Take 14 (1994) (0)
Social/Cultural Anthropology: Navajo Medicine Bundles or Jish: Acquisition, Transmission, and Disposition in the Past and Present. Charlotte J. Frisbie (1990) (0)
Don't Discount These Factors (1999) (0)
Anthropology in Trouble at NIMH (1979) (0)
Short Takes (1991) (0)
2. Memory and Context: Toward a Theory of Context in Ethnoscicnce (1985) (0)

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