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Jay Miller (other)
Jay Miller may refer to: *Jay Miller (anthropologist), specializing in Native American groups *Jay Miller (basketball) (1943–2001), former National Basketball League player *Jay Miller (ice hockey) (born 1960), former National Hockey League player *J. D. "Jay" Miller (1922–1996), American record producer, musician and songwriter *Jay Miller (softball), American softball coach *Jay Miller (theatre director), British theatre director and Artistic Director of the Yard Theatre *Jay Miller (American football) (born 1954), American football player See also *Miller (name) {{hndis, Miller, Jay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jay Miller (anthropologist)
Jay Miller is an American anthropologist who is known for his wide-ranging fieldwork and scholarship on as well as involvement with a number of Native American groups, especially the Delaware (Lenape), Tsimshian, and Lushootseed Salish. He is himself of Lenape ancestry. He grew up in upstate New York, where he was given a Mohawk (Iroquois) name. As an undergraduate, he was influenced by the anthropologist Florence Hawley Ellis. He received his Ph.D. from Rutgers University, for a dissertation on the Keresan Pueblo people. While in New Jersey, he began working with speakers of the Delaware language. In this context he was adopted and named in the Delaware Wolf clan, his clan mother being Nora Thompson Dean, with whom he collaborated on a publication on the Delaware "Big House" rite. Friendship with the anthropologist Viola Garfield while living in Seattle led to fieldwork among the Tsimshian at Hartley Bay, British Columbia, where Miller was adopted into the Gispwudw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |