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Joel Sherzer | |
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Born | March 18, 1942 |
Died | November 6, 2022 (aged 80) Austin, Texas, U.S. |
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Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania (PhD) |
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Discipline | Linguistic anthropologist |
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Institutions | University of Texas at Austin |
Joel Fred Sherzer (March 18, 1942 – November 6, 2022)[1] was an American anthropological linguist known for his research with the Guna people of Panama and his focus on verbal art and discourse-centered approaches to linguistic research. He co-founded the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America. Sherzer completed his Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania in 1968 and thereafter taught at the University of Texas at Austin[2] for his entire career.