Where it all began: memories of Robert Shafer and the "Sino-Tibetan linguistics project" Berkeley 1939-40

Abstract

I first met Robert Shafer in the winter of 1938-39, after I had gone to Berkely to assume supervising of the "Sino-Tibetan Philology Project". I had been invited by Professor A. L. Kroeber, at the time the dominant figure in American anthropology, to take over where Shafer had left off, completing the work of the project.