Ngadlu tampinthi ngadlu Kaurna Miyurna yartangka. Munaintya puru purruna ngadlu-itya. Munaintyanangku yalaka tarrkarriana tuntarri.

We acknowledge we are on Kaurna Miyurna land. The Dreaming is still living. From the past, in the present, into the future, forever.

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Nine sets of notes,

Lecture notes and exercises; ranging across various subjects including; anthropology, linguistics, semiology, psychology and logical analysis.

  1. 'The Family. Dr Sapir'. Notes possibly from Sapir's seminar, attended by McConnel, called 'Primitive Society' or possibly 'Problems in Anthropology' (during 1931-33).

  2. Linguistic notes plus address of eminent anthropologist Alfred Lewis Kroeber (1876-1960).

  3. Headings on front page: '1. Exercise in linguistics. 2. Exercise in morphology'. Material is about relations between nouns and verbs.

  4. Notes are on noun-verb relationships.

  5. Linguistic notes, focused on a theory of signs.

  6. Heading on first page: 'Stanley Newman, Yale - 1932.' Top of p12: 'Sapir'. Notes exploring semantic relationships through linguistic analysis, logical analysis, and psychological analysis.

  7. Heading on folded sheet: 'The Law of Differentiation in Linguistics. Dr Kurylowicz'. Page 6 employs terms 'morpheme' and 'phoneme'.

  8. Set 8: 'Dialect. Dr Sapir.' Notes are on dialectology, with a psychological slant.

  9. Set 9: 'Dr Sapir's Experiment with Nonsense Words'. About the kinaesthetics of vowels and consonants along axes of 'large/small' and 'dark/bright'.



A complex set of papers pinned together thus:
  1. 1. five leaves, ten pages, on very tiny notepaper.

  2. Set 2: two small leaves, 3 pages.

  3. Set 3: 6 leaves, 7 pages, handwriting in ink and pencil, no pagination.

  4. Set 4: 6 leaves, 7 pages of handwriting in ink, unpaginated.

  5. Set 5: 3 very small leaves, 6 numbered pages of handwriting in pencil.

  6. Set 6: 4 mid-sized leaves, with 7 punch holes down margin, 7 pages of handwriting mostly in pencil, numbered 6 to 12.

  7. Set 7: one mid-sized leaf folded in half with its quarters numbered , handwriting in ink, pinned to three mid-sized leaves, with 7 punch holes down margin, 4 pages numbered 5-9, i.e. it looks like notes are a unity paginated 1-9.

  8. Set 8: 2 leaves, 4 numbered pages, in handwriting in ink.

  9. Set 9: three leaves, not paginated, 3 pages, in handwriting in ink.




Previously acessioned as Binder 2- AA191/04/15

CreatorUrsula Hope McConnel
ControlAA 191/04/15
Date Range1931  -  1933
Quantity   35   ? Various formats: handwriting in ink and pencil
FormatsLoose Notes
Series AA 191/04
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