Samuel G. Armistead, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Samuel G. Armistead

American ethnographer

Date of Birth: 21-Aug-1927

Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Date of Death: 07-Aug-2013

Profession: teacher, historian, literary critic, ethnographer, linguist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Samuel G. Armistead

  • Samuel Gordon Armistead (August 21, 1927 – August 7, 2013) was a prominent American ethnographer, linguist, folklorist, historian, literary critic and professor of Spanish.
  • He is considered one of the most notable Hispanist scholars of the second half of the 20th and early 21st century.
  • His studies were especially focused on medieval Spanish language and literature, Hispanic folk literature, comparative literature and folklore.
  • He studied ballads of Spain and North Africa.
  • He excelled also in his studies of minority and archaic (but still existing) languages, such as the Spanish language of the Isleño communities in Louisiana and, especially, the Sephardic Jews' language, Ladino.
  • Armistead was author of a multi-volume series concerning the traditional literature of the Sephardic Jews and is author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of over twenty books and several hundred articles on medieval Spanish literature, modern Hispanic oral literature, and comparative literature.
  • His research fields that have had special impact include early poetry, medieval history, Hispanic dialectology, the Spanish epic and Romance, old and traditional.
  • He conducted numerous field surveys on the language and oral literature of the Sephardic communities of Morocco, the Middle East, rural communities in Portugal, Spain and Israel, and several sites in the United States.
  • In addition, he performed pioneering studies on various genres of Hispanic oral tradition, such as the kharjas, riddles, the paremeologĂ­a and folktales.

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