Seaman, P. David

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SEAMAN, P. David

SEAMAN, P. David. American, b. 1932. Genres: Language/Linguistics, Humanities, Anthropology/Ethnology. Career: Asbury College, Wilmore, KY, instructor, 1957-65, professor of languages and head of division of languages, 1965-67; Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, associate professor, 1967-70, professor of linguistics, 1970-, now emeritus, staff member of NDEA English as a Second Language Institute, 1968, founder and director of National Science Foundation Summer Linguistics Institute, 1968-73. Visiting instructor, summers, 1961, 1965, 1966; University of Athens, senior Ful- bright lecturer, 1969-70. Greek Ministry of Education, American representative on English language textbook committee, 1969-70; U.S. Educational Foundation in Greece, head of English Language Program in Greece, 1969- 70; Athens College, director of Linguistic Institute for Greek Teachers of English, summer, 1970; linguistic consultant to Panhellenic Association of Foreign Language Schools and Pyrsos Foreign Language Schools. Arizona Academy of Science, head of Anthropology section, 1968-69; lecturer on Native Americans and sociolinguistics; consultant to Zuni Tribal Council and Bureau of Indian Affairs. Publications: Modern Greek and American English in Contact, 1972; Hopi Dictionary: Hopi-English, English-Hopi, Grammatical Appendix, 1985, rev ed, 1996; The A.F. Whiting Collection: User Guide and Index, 1993. EDITOR: (with S. Weber) Havasupai Habitat: A.F. Whiting's Ethnography of a Traditional Indian Culture, 1985; Born a Chief: The Nineteenth Century Hopi Boyhood of Edmund Nequatewa, 1993. Contributor of articles and reviews to humanities, anthropology, and linguistics journals. Address: Department of Anthropology, Northern Arizona University, Box 15200, Flagstaff, AZ 86011, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]