109:, considered a classic today for the depth and breadth of its investigation into the use of plants by a single ethnic group. Later publications focused on grammar, songs, and lexicon. Mary's last paper publication was the Seri dictionary (Moser & Marlett 2010), which brought together the lexical information on the Seri language that had been filed on 3x5 paper slips during the previous fifty years.
93:). During almost all of the years of use, the house did not have electricity or running water. But the house was a mecca for visitors to the area since scientists, government personnel, artists, and tourists alike always found a welcome there, especially to have a good meal and to use the bucket-shower in the corner of the kitchen and the adobe outhouse furnished with reading material and art exhibit.
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Together Edward and Mary learned the Seri language and did the first serious analysis of its sound system and grammar (see the bibliography below). Working in close collaboration with community members and under the guidelines of the
SecretarĂa de EducaciĂłn PĂşblica (Mexico's department of education),
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Moser, Mary B. & Stephen A. Marlett, compilers. 2005. Comcáac quih yaza quih hant ihĂip hac: cmiique iitom - cocsar iitom - maricáana iitom (Diccionario Seri - Español - InglĂ©s: con Ăndices Español - Seri, InglĂ©s - Seri y con gramática). Hermosillo & Mexico, D.F.: Universidad de Sonora &
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in 1951. A major effort in the early years was to learn the Seri language well and understand the culture, but the Mosers also helped in various ways to deal with a measles epidemic and other medical and physical needs. Mary helped deliver more than thirty Seri babies during the years before Seri
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Edward's unexpected and premature death in 1976 put the job of finishing various projects, including the translation, into Mary's hands. The New
Testament was published in 1982. She completed an Old Testament summary in 1986. During these years a primary co-worker was Roberto Herrera Marcos, a
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During her years of residence in the Seri community, Mary took special interest in the lives of the people. She published articles on various anthropological and linguistic topics. She and
Richard S. Felger, a botanist from Arizona, collaborated for more than twenty years to produce the Seri
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they prepared the first materials to be used to teach Seri children and adults how to read and write their language. They did meticulous documentation of the culture during the years between 1951 and 1976 while at the same time preparing a translation of the New
Testament into the language.
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Moser, Mary B. & Stephen A. Marlett. 1992. "El desarrollo de clases nominales en seri." In
Gerardo LĂłpez C. & JosĂ© Luis Moctezuma Z. (eds.), Estudios de LingĂĽĂstica y SociolingĂĽĂstica, 97–105. Hermosillo, Mexico: Universidad de Sonora and Instituto Nacional de AntropologĂa e
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Moser, Mary B. & Stephen A. Marlett. 1994. "Los nĂşmeros en seri." In Zarina
Estrada Fernández (ed.), Encuentro de LingĂĽĂstica en el Noroeste, Memorias 2, 63–79. Hermosillo, Mexico: Universidad de Sonora, Departamento de letras y lingĂĽĂstica, DivisiĂłn de humanidades y bellas
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of Mexico for more than fifty years. She authored and co-authored numerous articles and two books (an ethnobotany and a substantive trilingual dictionary) about the language and culture of that group and brought to completion the translation of the New
Testament in the
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Morales and Juan Topete. 1976. Zix anxö cĂłohhiit hapáh quih czáxö zix quihmáa táax mos czaxöiha (El gigante llamado comelĂłn y otras historias). MĂ©xico: Instituto LingĂĽĂstico de
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Bowen, Thomas & Mary B. Moser. 1995. "Seri." In James W. Dow (ed.) & Robert V. Kemper (assoc. ed.), Middle
America and the Caribbean, 232–235, Volume 8 of David Levinson (editor in chief),
265:(eds.), Studies in American Indian languages: Description and theory, 117–29. University of California Publications in Linguistics, 131. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
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during her first year of college. They married in 1946, after Edward finished his service in the United States Navy. Both of them studied how to analyze an unwritten language at the
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Felger, Richard S. & Mary B. Moser. 1973. "Eelgrass (Zostera marina L.) in the Gulf of
California: Discovery of its nutritional value by the Seri Indians." Science 181: 355–56.
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Romero, Chico et al. 1975. Zix ctám barrĂil hapáh cuitzaxö, zix quihmáa táax mos czáxöiha (El hombre llamado barril y otras historias). MĂ©xico: Instituto LingĂĽĂstico de Verano.
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Moser, Edward & Mary B. Moser. 1961. Seri-castellano castellano-seri. Serie de vocabularios indĂgenas "Mariano Silva y Aceves", 5. Mexico: Instituto LingĂĽĂstico de Verano
47:. The name by which people later knew her best, Becky, was also the nickname that her father used. She graduated from high school in Williamsport, Pennsylvania and attended
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Moser Mary B. (1982) "Seri: From conception through infancy." In Anthropology of human birth, ed. Margarita A. Kay. Philadelphia: F.A. Davis, pp. 221–232.
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Ziix quih icaamx quih cmaa quiih quih Cristo quij itoon hant com cöoomjc ac; El nuevo testamento en seri de Sonora. 1982. México, D.F. Liga del Sembrador.
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Felger, Richard S., Mary B. Moser, & Edward Moser. 1980. "Seagrasses in Seri Indian culture." In Ronald C. Phillips & C. Peter McRoy (eds.),
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Mary and Edward lived in the only house that they would ever own, a three-room adobe house that was later slightly enlarged, in the Seri village of
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Yooz quij ziix quih yacoaat quih hant com iti yaahcaii taax pac czaxöiha; Historias del antiguo testamento. 1986. México, D.F. Liga del Sembrador.
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for most years between 1952 and 1999. In 1982 she received her B.A. in social sciences and linguistics from the University of North Dakota.
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Although the Mosers thought that they could not have children, their family grew when in 1952 a daughter (Cathy) was born.
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Moser, Mary B. & Stephen A. Marlett. 1989. "Terminologia de parentesco seri." Anales de AntropologĂa 26: 367–88.
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Moser, Edward & Mary B. Moser. 1965. "Consonant-vowel balance in Seri (Hokan) syllables." Linguistics 16: 50–67.
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Felger, Richard S. & Mary B. Moser. 1976. "Seri Indian food plants: Desert subsistence without agriculture." In
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Felger, Richard S. & Mary B. Moser. 1971. "Seri use of mesquite Prosopis glandulosa var torreyana."
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Moser, Mary B. & Stephen A. Marlett. 1998. "How Rabbit fooled Puma: a Seri text." In
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Primera cartilla seri. 1963. MĂ©xico: Instituto LingĂĽĂstico de Verano.
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People of the desert and sea: Ethnobotany of the Seri Indians
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Presentación y análisis preliminar de 600 topónimos seris
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Handbook of seagrass biology: An ecosystem perspective
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