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  1. Harvey Carlson Papers on the Aikana Language

    • Collection identifier: Carlson
    • Primary contributors: Luis Espirito Santo (consultant); Manoel Viera de Sousa (consultant); Getulio Viera de Sousa (consultant); Pedro Viera de Sousa (consultant); Harvey Carlson (author, researcher)
    • Additional contributors: Julião Machado (consultant); José Ramos (consultant); William Bontkes (researcher); Laura Buszard-Welcher (researcher); Leanne Hinton (researcher, compiler); Larry M. Hyman (researcher); Marvin Kramer (researcher); Anita Liang (researcher); Julio Cezar Melatti (researcher); Pamela Morgan (researcher); David A. Peterson (researcher); William F. Weigel (researcher)
    • Languages: Aikanã (tba); Kwazá (xwa)
    • Dates: 1984-1992
    • Extent: 1.08 linear feet (2 boxes and 1 binder)
    • Historical information: Harvey Carlson (d. March 10, 1994) received a BA in linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley. He was an audio technician in the university's Language Lab (now the Berkeley Language Center). While a student, he was awarded a President's Undergraduate Fellowship to support fieldwork on the Aikana language in the state of Rondonia, Brazil from April-June of 1984. After graduation, Carlson left the field of linguistics to pursue a career as an environmentalist.
    • Scope and content: The Papers document Carlson's field research on Aikana in Rondonia, Brazil form April-June of 1984. The collection includes his original Aikana field notebooks and photographs and a small amount of material for the Kwaza language. Carlson's main linguistic consultants were Manoel Viera de Sousa, Pedro Viera de Sousa, Getulio Viera de Sousa, and Luis Espirito Santo (Aikana) and Joséamos (Kwaza). Also included are materials developed for a field methods course held at the University of California, Berkeley in 1992 based on Carlson's field data.
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: Luis Espirito Santo, Manoel Viera de Sousa, Getulio Viera de Sousa, Pedro Viera de Sousa, and Harvey Carlson. Harvey Carlson Papers on the Aikana Language, Carlson, California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2MK69TR.
    • Associated materials: LA 165, The Harvey D. Carlson Collection of Aikaná Sound Recordings (http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/10067); LA 169, The Harvey D. Carlson Collection of Koaiá Sound Recordings (http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/10080); LA 171, The Harvey Carlson Collection of Makurap Sound Recordings (http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/10176).

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    • Item identifier: Carlson.001.005
    • Date: 1984
    • Contributors: José Ramos (consultant); Harvey Carlson (researcher)
    • Language: Kwazá (xwa)
    • Description: Kwazá vocabulary list.
    • Availability: Online access
    • Extent: 1 notebook
    • Collection: Harvey Carlson Papers on the Aikana Language
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: [Kwazá vocabulary], Carlson.001.005, in "Harvey Carlson Papers on the Aikana Language", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2765CKV.
    • Item identifier: Carlson.001.006
    • Date: Mar 1993
    • Contributor: Leanne Hinton (researcher)
    • Language: Aikanã (tba)
    • Description: Collection of sketches of aspects of Aikana grammar written by participants in Linguistics 275, taught by Leanne Hinton in Fall 1992.
    • Availability: Online access
    • Extent: 1 set of bound sheets
    • Collection: Harvey Carlson Papers on the Aikana Language
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: Aikana modules (a class report based on the fieldnotes of Harvey Carlson), Carlson.001.006, in "Harvey Carlson Papers on the Aikana Language", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X23F4MWK.
    • Item identifier: Carlson.001.007
    • Date: 1984
    • Contributor: Harvey Carlson (researcher)
    • Language: Aikanã (tba)
    • Place: Chumpingu., Rondonia, Brazil
    • Description: Harvey Carlson's journal from his 1984 fieldwork in Brazil.
    • Availability: Materials for Item number Carlson.001.007 are not digitized. Please email us at scoil-ling@berkeley.edu to schedule a visit, or to see if we can digitize them for you.
    • Extent: 1 notebook
    • Collection: Harvey Carlson Papers on the Aikana Language
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: [Journal of experiences during Aikana fieldwork], Carlson.001.007, in "Harvey Carlson Papers on the Aikana Language", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/275.
    • Item identifier: Carlson.001.008
    • Date: 1992
    • Contributors: Laura Buszard-Welcher (researcher); Leanne Hinton (researcher); Marvin Kramer (researcher); Anita Liang (researcher); Pamela Morgan (researcher); David A. Peterson (researcher); William F. Weigel (researcher)
    • Language: Aikanã (tba)
    • Description: Class notes, draft grammatical analyses, presentations and modules from Linguistics 275, taught by Leanne Hinton in Fall 1992.
    • Availability: Online access
    • Extent: 1 binder
    • Collection: Harvey Carlson Papers on the Aikana Language
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: [Preparatory materials for Aikana grammatical sketches], Carlson.001.008, in "Harvey Carlson Papers on the Aikana Language", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2F76B7J.
    • Item identifier: Carlson.001.009
    • Date: 1985 to 1992
    • Contributors: Harvey Carlson (author); Leanne Hinton (researcher); Larry M. Hyman (researcher)
    • Language: Aikanã (tba)
    • Description: Notes, handouts, and other materials compiled for Linguistics 275 in Fall 1992 at U.C. Berkeley. Includes a draft lexicon, conference handouts on South American languages, notes by Larry Hyman dated 1988, photocopies of letters from Harvey Carlson, annotated photocopies of Harvey Carlson's Aikana notebooks, photocopy of "Report on linguistic fieldwork in Brazil" by Carlson (original dated January 25, 1985), photocopy of "Lingua descriptive studies: Questionnaire".
    • Availability: Online access
    • Extent: 1 folder
    • Collection: Harvey Carlson Papers on the Aikana Language
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: [Notes from seminar on Aikana], Carlson.001.009, in "Harvey Carlson Papers on the Aikana Language", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X29G5KGC.
    • Item identifier: Carlson.001.010
    • Date: approximately 1992
    • Contributors: Julião Machado (consultant); William Bontkes (researcher); Julio Cezar Melatti (researcher); Leanne Hinton (compiler)
    • Language: Aikanã (tba)
    • Description: Undated photocopies of three wordlists used in a seminar on Aikana (Ling 275) in Fall 1992 at U.C. Berkeley. Includes a one-page list attributed to Melatti, another one-page list collected by Bontkes (original dated December 3, 1982), and a 19-page list collected by Bontkes in October 1968.
    • Availability: Online access
    • Extent: 1 folder, 21 pp.
    • Collection: Harvey Carlson Papers on the Aikana Language
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: [Aikana wordlists], Carlson.001.010, in "Harvey Carlson Papers on the Aikana Language", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2ZP44C7.
    • Item identifier: Carlson.001.011
    • Date: [1992]
    • Contributors: Luis Espirito Santo (consultant); Manoel Viera de Sousa (consultant); Getulio Viera de Sousa (consultant); Pedro Viera de Sousa (consultant); Harvey Carlson (researcher); Leanne Hinton (compiler)
    • Language: Aikanã (tba)
    • Description: Undated photocopies of Harvey Carlson's Aikana field notes (originals dated 1984) prepared for Linguistics 275 in Fall 1992 at U.C. Berkeley. Mainly vocabulary and grammatical elicitation; English translations of Carlson's Portuguese glosses are handwritten in pencil on many pages.
    • Availability: Materials for Item number Carlson.001.011 are not digitized. Please email us at scoil-ling@berkeley.edu to schedule a visit, or to see if we can digitize them for you.
    • Extent: 4 folders
    • Collection: Harvey Carlson Papers on the Aikana Language
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Status: deaccessioned
    • Suggested citation: [Annotated Aikana field notes], Carlson.001.011, in "Harvey Carlson Papers on the Aikana Language", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/2733.
    • Item identifier: Carlson.001.012
    • Date: 1983
    • Contributor: Harvey Carlson (author)
    • Languages: [unspecified]
    • Description: Final paper for seminar in Indian Languages of South America, taught by visiting professor Aryon D. Rodrigues during the winter 1983 term
    • Availability: Online access
    • Collection: Harvey Carlson Papers on the Aikana Language
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: Native Languages of Southeastern Rondonia: A Survey, Carlson.001.012, in "Harvey Carlson Papers on the Aikana Language", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2VX0DSW.
    • Item identifier: Carlson.002
    • Date: 1984
    • Contributor: Harvey Carlson (researcher)
    • Language: Aikanã (tba)
    • Description: 1 PDF, 104 TIFF (photographs), and 120 JPEG files (slides). See file carlson.002_00-00_notes-slides-prints for notes to all images. Numerical abbreviations in notes correspond to final numbers in image file names.
    • Availability: Online access
    • Extent: 1 binder
    • Collection: Harvey Carlson Papers on the Aikana Language
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: [Photo album from Aikana fieldwork], Carlson.002, in "Harvey Carlson Papers on the Aikana Language", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2RB72JG.