K. David Harrison

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Title: K. David Harrison
Identifier(s): vassar:76720
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Interviewer: Thomas Hill
Interviewee(s): K. David Harrison
Physical description (extent): 1:00:11
Note: Anthropolgy, Archaeology, Archives, Biodiversity, Cognition, Ethnography, Geography, Knowledge Systems, Language, Linguistic Diversity, Mathematics, Memorialization, Memory, Oral Theory, Perception, Sustainability
Resource Type: sound recording-nonmusical
Date issued: 2008-03-25
Abstract: K. David Harrison, professor of Linguistics at Swarthmore College and Director of Research for the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages, discusses his book, When Languages Die: The Extinction of the World's Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge, published by Oxford University Press.
Form: sound recording