Tzotzil Dictionaries
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Laughlin, Robert M.
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content: Robert Moody Laughlin papers
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1963-1988, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2011-06, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: This series retains Laughlin's original order. Most index cards are arranged by word group or type, and then alphabetically.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series primarily contains index cards and word lists Laughlin created between 1963 and 1975 for his book Great Tzotzil Dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantan. Each card contains, at a minimum, a Tzotzil word or phrase. Many cards also contain English or Spanish equivalencies and other notes about the word and its translation. There are over 30,000 word entries represented on the cards which contain consonant-vowel-consonant roots, ethnobotanical terms, place names, and ethnographic contexts for words. All of the words and their definitions were also entered into a computer database and saved onto several reels of 9 track tape. This series also contains some maps, edited drafts, other notes.