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by
Richard Heinberg
Lately
I’ve been reading Andrew Schelling’s Tracks
Along the Left Coast, a biography of linguist,
anthropologist, and anarchist Jaime de Angulo
(1887-1950). De Angulo was a character worth
knowing about. His affluent Spanish parents gave
him a civilized upbringing in fashionable Paris;
nevertheless, he had a wild streak. So, before he
turned 20, de Angulo hightailed it to San
Francisco, arriving just in time for the Great
Quake of 1906.
During the next few years,
he earned a medical degree, then worked as a
cowboy trekking the California coast. The Native
Americans he met fascinated and impressed him. As
a way of documenting and preserving their way of
life, which he regarded as perfectly adapted to
the endlessly varied, stunningly beautiful
landscape around him, de Angulo (often
collaborating with his linguist wife, Lucy Shepard
Freeland) learned and described 25 of the roughly
100 Native languages then spoken in California.
“Salvage linguistics,” anthropologist Franz Boas
called
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collapse are reshaping the world. At the same
time, Herman has started a family and is
beginning to forge the ideas that would soon
shake the foundations of
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