Author: Margaret Bender
Title: SIGNS OF CHEROKEE CULTURE. SEQUOYAH'S SILLABARY IN EASTERN CHEROKEE LIFE..
Description: Chapel Hill, London, University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Un volume (23,5 cm) di XVII-187 pagine. Brossura editoriale illustrata. Ottime condizioni. Based on extensive fieldwork in the community of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in western North Carolina, this book uses a semiotic approach to investigate the historic and contemporary role of the Sequoyan syllabary--the written system for representing the sounds of the Cherokee language--in Eastern Cherokee life.The Cherokee syllabary was invented in the 1820s by the respected Cherokee Sequoyah. The syllabary quickly replaced alternative writing systems for Cherokee and was reportedly in widespread use by the mid-nineteenth century.

Keywords: ANTROPOLOGIA, ETNOLOGIA, LINGUISTICA, INDIANI