Charles E. Dibble
{{Short description|American anthropologist and linguist}}
Charles Elliot Dibble (18 August 1909 – 30 November 2002){{cite LAF|id=n82-74252|text=Birth date}} Death date from U News Center (2002). was an American academic, anthropologist, linguist, and scholar of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures. A former Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of Utah, Dibble retired in 1978 after an association with the university as lecturer and researcher spanning four decades.U News Center (2002) Post-retirement Dibble continued to conduct and publish research in his area of expertise, studies of Mesoamerican historical literature and the historiography of conquest-era Mesoamerican cultures, in particular those of the Aztec and others of the central Mexican altiplano. Among many contributions to the field Dibble is perhaps most recognised for his collaboration with colleague Arthur J.O. Anderson, producing the modern annotated translation into English of the volumes of the Florentine Codex.
Born in Layton, Utah,Lazar (2000) Dibble attended the University of Utah, obtaining a B.A. in history in 1936. Dibble traveled to Mexico in the year preceding his graduation, and his experiences there shaped the direction of his future career as a Mesoamericanist scholar. Dibble enrolled at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in Mexico City for postgraduate studies, completing a Master's degree in anthropology in 1938. Upon receiving his MA Dibble gained a teaching position at his alma mater in Utah commencing in 1939, where he would be based for the remainder of his long academic career. At the same time he pursued his doctoral studies at UNAM, and was awarded his PhD from UNAM in 1942. Dibble also undertook a year's post-doctoral work at Harvard, in 1943. In 1994, a festschrift entitled Chipping away on earth: studies in prehispanic and colonial Mexico in honor of Arthur J.O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble Eloise Quinones Keber, editor with the assistance of Susan Schroeder and Frederic Hicks, 1994: Lancaster CA, Labyrinthos. was published.
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- {{cite book |author=Andrews, J. Richard |author-link=J. Richard Andrews |year=2003 |title=Introduction to Classical Nahuatl |edition=revised |location=Norman |publisher=University of Oklahoma Press |isbn=978-0-8061-3452-9 |oclc=50090230}}
- {{cite journal|author=Lazar, Elise|date=Fall 2000|title=Aztec Civilization, Revealed: A tribute to Charles Dibble|url=http://www.alumni.utah.edu/continuum/fall00/aztec.htm|journal=Continuum: The Magazine of the University of Utah|location=Salt Lake City|publisher=University of Utah Alumni Association|volume=10|issue=2|oclc=173715916|access-date=2008-10-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070807085735/http://www.alumni.utah.edu/continuum/fall00/aztec.htm|archive-date=2007-08-07|url-status=dead}}
- {{cite book |author=Lockhart, James |author-link=James Lockhart (historian) |year=1999 |title=Of Things of the Indies: Essays Old and New in Early Latin American History |location=Stanford, CA|publisher=Stanford University Press |isbn=978-0-8047-3809-5 |oclc=41564990}}
- {{cite book |author=Poole, Stafford |author-link=Stafford Poole |year=2006 |title=The Guadalupan Controversies in Mexico |location=Stanford, CA |publisher=Stanford University Press |isbn=978-0-8047-5252-7|oclc=64427328}}
- {{cite book |author=Sahagún, Bernardino de |author-link=Bernardino de Sahagún |year=1950–82 |orig-year=ca. 1540–85 |title=Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain, 13 vols. in 12 |edition=translation of Historia General de las Cosas de la Nueva España |others=Charles E. Dibble and Arthur J.O. Anderson (eds., trans., notes and illus.) |series=vols. I-XII |location=Santa Fe, NM and Salt Lake City |publisher=School of American Research and the University of Utah Press |isbn=978-0-87480-082-1 |oclc=276351|title-link=Florentine Codex }}
- {{cite press release |publisher=U News Center |date=December 5, 2002 |title=U Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Professor Charles Dibble Dies |url=https://archive.unews.utah.edu/news_releases/u-distinguished-professor-of-anthropology-professor-charles-dibble-dies/ |access-date=2024-06-16}}
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Category:American Mesoamericanists
Category:Historians of Mesoamerica
Category:Mesoamerican anthropologists
Category:Mesoamerican epigraphers
Category:Scholars of the Aztecs
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Category:Translators to English
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Category:National Autonomous University of Mexico alumni
Category:Harvard University alumni
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Category:20th-century Mesoamericanists