Wayne Suttles
American anthropologist
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- PhD Anthropology University of Chicago
- Masters Anthropology University of Chicago
- Bachelors Anthropology University of Washington
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Wayne Suttles was an American anthropologist and linguist. He was the leading authority on the ethnology and linguistics of the Coast Salish people of the Northwest Coast of North America. Biography As a student of Erna Gunther at the University of Washington, Suttles in 1951, was the first to be awarded a Ph.D. in anthropology at that institution. He did ethnographic work with Northwest Coast people, especially the Coast Salish, beginning in the mid-1940s and linguistic work beginning in the mid-1950s. His publications on the Coast Salish, including his interpretation of the relationship between culture and environment and the nature of the social network, have had a significant influence on both ethnographic and archaeological work in the region. As editor of Vol. 7, Northwest Coast, of the Handbook of North American Indians, Suttles was instrumental in making scholars active in different kinds of research aware of each other's work. He also testified as an expert witness in several legal cases relating to Native rights in both Washington State and British Columbia, the most important of which was R. v. Sparrow, which established Native fishing rights across Canada. His 2004 grammar of the Musqueam language was a milestone in Salish studies.
Wayne Suttles's Published Works
Published Works
- The economic life of the Coast Salish of Haro and Rosario Straits (1974) (136)
- The Cultural Ecology of India's Sacred Cattle [and Comments and Replies] (1966) (120)
- Affinal Ties, Subsistence, and Prestige among the Coast Salish1 (1960) (116)
- Okinawa: The History of an Island People. (1960) (89)
- Musqueam Reference Grammar (2004) (80)
- Coast Salish Essays (1987) (77)
- The Early Diffusion of the Potato among the Coast Salish (1951) (42)
- The Persistence of Intervillage Ties among the Coast Salish (1963) (33)
- Private Knowledge, Morality, and Social Classes among the Coast Salish1 (1958) (32)
- The Plateau Prophet Dance among the Coast Salish (1957) (28)
- Handbook of North American Indians. Vol. 7, Northwest Coast (1992) (27)
- Katzie ethnographic notes (1955) (24)
- The World is as Sharp as a Knife (1982) (14)
- The Fort Langley Journals, 1827-30 (1999) (11)
- Handbook of North American Indians. 7, Northwest Coast. (1991) (7)
- Comment on Aberle's Thesis of Deprivation (1959) (5)
- Linguistic means for anthropological ends on the Northwest Coast (1965) (4)
- Subhuman and Human Fighting (1961) (3)
- The "Middle Fraser" and "Foothill" Cultures: A Criticism (1957) (2)
- The Mouth of Heaven and the Kwakiutl Tongue: A Comment on Walens on Goldman (1979) (1)
- ETHNOLOGY: Kwakiutl Ethnography. Franz Boas. Helen Codere, ed (1970) (1)
- To Make My Name Good: A Reexamination of the Southern Kwakiutl Potlatch. Philip Drucker and Robert F. Heizer (1968) (1)
- Ecological Determinants of Aboriginal California Populations. Martin A. Baumhoff (1964) (1)
- Richard K. Beardsley and others: Village Japan . [By] Richard K. Beardsley, John W. Hall, Robert E. Ward. xv, 498 pp., 32 plates. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1959. (English agents: Cambridge University Press. 65s. 6d.) (1960) (0)
- ETHNOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY: The Great Loochoo: A Study of Okinawan Village Life. Clarence J. Glacken (1956) (0)
- Rites of Passage Death Notices (2005) (0)
- [Kwak'wala and Cowichan field notes, with notes on research in the Pacific Northwest] (1967) (0)
- The Northwest Coast in world Ethnography (1994) (0)
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