Mary Haas
Mary Rosamund Haas ( born January 12, 1910 in Richmond, Indiana; † 17 May 1996 Alameda County, California ) was an American linguist who has focused particularly on the indigenous languages of North America.
Haas was a student of Edward Sapir at Yale and pursued so as he spoke in their scientific work an anthropological approach, which took into account the cultural background of the respective language communities and miteinbezog. She led fieldwork on the languages Tunica, Natchez and Creek ( Muskogee ). As part of World War II, the U.S. government committed because of their military commitment in Asia leading linguists to deal with Asian languages , so that they could produce textbooks and dictionaries about those languages that did not exist up to this point in the Anglo-American world. Haas was thereby assigned to the Thai.
Haas worked from about this time at the University of California, Berkeley.