Elements of the Kato Language
Publisher: University of California Press
176 pages with 45 plates. Small quarto (10 1/2" x 7 1/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers with black lettering to front wrapper. University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, Volume 11, number 1. [inscribed: "With the regards of the author. P E Goddard". First edition.
Born in Maine, Goddard received a seminary education and came to California as a missionary in 1897. While at Hupa in northwestern California, Goddard renewed an interest in languages and in 1900 entered the University as a graduate student in linguistics under the tutelage of President Benjamin Ide Wheeler. He completed his Ph. D. in 1904, the first in linguistics the University bestowed. Wheeler secured a position of Goddard as Instructor in the newly-founded Department of Anthropology in 1901, where he remained until 1909.
Edge wear with chips, title and author noted on spine, spine age darkened else about a very good copy.
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