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Archival processing of the Herman Bell Interview with Jim Milligan, Christiana Milligan, and Nettie Whaley was made possible through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Size | 2 items |
Abstract | Audio recording of an interview conducted in Gullah with Jim Milligan, Christiana Milligan, and Nettie Whaley, all African American residents of Edisto Island, S.C., about life on Edisto Island. Topics discussed include the local environment, effects of the Civil War, houses, food, fishing, and schools. Also included are Brer Rabbit and Brer Cooter stories, proverbs, and animal tales. Recorded by Herman Bell, a white University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty member in the Department of Linguistics, during the summer of 1967, probably at Milligan's home on Edisto Island, S.C. The collection also contains supporting documentation prepared by former Southern Folklife Collection staff. Documentation consists of tape logs, which include information about the collector and informants and descriptions of content. |
Creator | Bell, Herman, 1933- |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection. |
Language | English ; Gullah |
Processed by: Anne Wells, Meredith Kite, October 2020
Encoded by: Anne Wells, October 2020
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Archival processing of the Herman Bell Interview with Jim Milligan, Christiana Milligan, and Nettie Whaley was made possible through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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Herman Bell (1933-) is a white professor, Nubian languages researcher, and author. He received his M.Litt. in Ancient Egyptian and Coptic from the University of Oxford in 1962, his M.A. in Linguistics: African Languages and History from Northwestern University in 1966, and his Ph.D. in Linguistics: Nubian Languages and Geographical Names from Northwestern University in 1968. Bell was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1968 to 1972. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Exeter and the Dean of Graduate Studies at Azad University IR in Oxford.
Biographical information found in Bell's curriculum vitae.
Back to TopOpen reel audio recording of an interview conducted in Gullah, a Sea Island Creole dialect, with Jim Milligan, Christiana Milligan, and Nettie Whaley, all African American residents of Edisto Island, S.C., about life on Edisto Island. Topics discussed include the local environment, effects of the Civil War, houses, food, fishing, and schools. Also included are Brer Rabbit and Brer Cooter stories, proverbs, and animal tales. Recorded by Herman Bell, a white University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty member in the Department of Linguistics, during the summer of 1967, probably at Milligan's home on Edisto Island, S.C. The collection also contains supporting documentation prepared by former Southern Folklife Collection staff. Documentation consists of tape logs, which include information about the collector and informants and descriptions of content.
Back to TopProcessing information: Title and descriptions compiled from SFC database.
SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20161/1200 |
Interview, conversation, and some narrative material with Jim Milligan, Christiana Milligan, and Nettie Whaley, from a Gullah community on Edisto Island, S.C., summer 19671/4" Open Reel Audio |