Field Research
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Goldman, Irving, 1911-2002
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content: Irving Goldman papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3.5 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1957 - 1998
label: Date
content: 1934 - 1940
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2003-11, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series contains five subseries.  Goldman conducted field research in many different places, including California (Modoc Indians), British Columbia (Ulkatcho Carrier Indians), Polynesia and Chiapas, Mexico (Tzotzil of Chamula Indians), although the focus in the collection is on the Northern Amazon region --specifically the Cubeo, in Vaupes, Colombia.  There are many notes from the field.  Most of them are in English, however almost all of the Cubeo questionnaires are in Spanish.  Some of the notes contain Spanish as well as native Northern Amazon languages, including Cubeo and Tzotzil.   

Goldman conducted field research in the Cubeo region in the 1930-1940s and in the 1970s.  Many of the field notes and field journals are undated, often having a month and day, but no year described.  There are a few full narratives in Cubeo, with either free translations in English or Spanish, or a word-by-word gloss in English or Spanish.  Goldman also has many notes in English on linguistic exogamy as practiced by the Cubeo and on their philosophy and mythology.  In addition to field notes, the Cubeo subseries includes reading notes and his applications for grants to fund his Cubeo field research.  The Ulkatcho Carrier subseries contain field journals from Ulkatcho, Nazko and Quesnel, which represent three of the four Carrier bands of the Blackwater dialect group.  These notes also contain some Bella Coola and Shuswap names, which, according to linguist Lucy Thomason, show evidence of contact with these groups and multilingualism. The Polynesia subseries contain reading notes.  Goldman did not ever study in Polynesia; all of his research was done in the library.  The Modoc subseries contain vocabulary and ethnographic notes, as well as transcriptions of songs in Modoc with English translations.  The five unidentified notebooks are vocabulary and ethnographic notes which Thomason believes to be on Tzotzil. These are under Subseries: Tzotzil of Chamula.

Subseries: Cubeo

Subseries: Ulkatcho Carrier

Subseries: Polynesia

Subseries: Modoc

Subseries: Tzotzil Of Chamula