Purépecha materials, William O. Bright Papers
Culture:
Purépecha includes: Tarascan (pej.), P'urhépecha
Language: Purepecha | Purepecha, West Highland | English | Nahuatl (macrolanguage)
Date: 1982, 2000-2002
Contributor: Wares, Alan Campbell | Bright, William, 1928-2006 | Gold, David L. | Aparacio, Odelon | Cruz, Rafaela de la
Subject: Linguistics | Ethnography | Folklore | Michoacán de Ocampo--History
Type: Text
Genre: Correspondence | Notebooks | Field notes | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent: 0.1 linear feet
Description: William Bright's original work on Purépecha was the recording of lexical and grammatical elictations with consultants Odelon Aparacio and Rafaela de la Cruz, Ichupio, Michoacan, Mexico (Series 3 Subseries 1). Bright also analyzed its verbal morphology and discussed the borrowing of the word "tarascan" into Nahuatl (Series 1).
Collection: William O. Bright Papers Mss.Ms.Coll.142