Werner, Oswald
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A taxonomic view of the traditional Navajo universeessay 1983
- Summary
- Oswald J. Werner, better known as Ossy Werner, was a Slovak-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. Wikipedia
- Gender or Sex
- Male [1][3][4]
- Unknown [2]
- Born
- 1928 [2]
- 1928-02-26 [4]
- Birth Place
- Rimavská Sobota [2]
- Rimavská Sobota [4]
- Died
- 2023-03-26 [4]
- Death Place
- Santa Fe [4]
- Country
- Czechoslovakia [2]
- Slovakia [2]
- Occupation
- linguist [4]
- anthropologist [4]
- Employer
- Northwestern University [4]
- Educated at
- University of Stuttgart [4]
- Syracuse University [4]
- Indiana University [4]
- Country of Education
- United States [4]
- Germany [4]
- Archives at
- Northwestern University Archives [4]
- Yale LUX
- Entity [4]
- Sources
- 1. VIAF
- 2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
- 3. Library of Congress
- 4. Wikidata
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