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Edward Sapir – Appraisals of his life and work
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To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Edward Sapir (1884–1939), this volume brings together a number of papers by distinguished North American scholars appraising the life and work of the world-renowned anthropologist and linguist.
It includes an introduction by the editor, a full bibliography of Sapir's scientific writings, a detailed index of names, and many photographs and fac similes. Among the contributors are: Ruth Benedict, Leonard Bloomfield, Franz Boas, Joseph Greenberg, Mary Haas, Zellig Harris, A.L. Kroeber, Robert H. Lowie, David Mandelbaum, Morris Swadesh, and C.F. Voegelin.
[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 36] 1984. xxviii, 224 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 3 October 2011
Published online on 3 October 2011
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Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I: Obituaries and Biographical Sketches, 1939-1952
- Franz Boas (1858-1942): Edward Sapir [1939]
- Franklin Edgerton (1885-1963): Edward Sapir (1884-1939)
- Diamond Jenness (1886-1969): Edward Sapir (1884-1939)
- Harry Stack Sullivan (1892-1949): Edward Sapir, Ph.D., SC.D., 1884-1939
- Leslie Spier (1893-1961): Edward Sapir [excerpt]
- Ruth Fulton Benedict (1887-1948): Edward Sapir [1939]
- Morris Swadesh (1909-1967): Edward Sapir [1939]
- David Goodman Mandelbaum (b.1911): Edward Sapir [1941]
- Charles Frederick Voegelin (b.1906): Edward Sapir [1952]
- Part II: Comments on Sapir's Work, 1919-1953
- Review of Time Perspective in Aboriginal American Culture (1916)Robert Harry Lowie | p. 39
- Review of Language: An introduction to the study of speech (1921)Robert Harry Lowie | p. 43
- Review of Language (1921)Leonard Bloomfield | p. 47
- A Study of Language [excerpt]Alfred Louis Kroeber | p. 51
- Review of Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality (1949)Harry Hoijer | p. 53
- Review of Selected Writings (1949)Stanley S. Newman | p. 59
- Review of Selected Writings (1949)Joseph H. Greenberg | p. 66
- Review article on Selected Writings (1949)Zellig S. Harris | p. 69
- Edward Sapir and the Training of Anthropological Linguists [1953]Mary R. Haas | p. 115
- Part III: Appraisals of Sapir's Life and Work, 1956-1980
- Comments on Edward Sapir, his Personality and Scholarship [1956]Robert Harry Lowie | p. 121
- Reflections on Edward Sapir, Scholar and Man [1959]Alfred Louis Kroeber | p. 131
- The Culture Historic Implications of Sapir's Linguistic Classification (1961)Morris Swadesh | p. 141
- Sapir's Phonologic Representation (1967)James D. McCawley | p. 153
- The Sapir Years at the Canadian National Museum in Ottawa (1976)Regna Darnell | p. 159
- Reflections on Sapir's Anthropology in Canada (1980)Richard J. Preston | p. 179
- Part IV: Bibliography of Edward Sapir's Publications in Linguistics, Anthropology, and other Behavioral and Social Sciences
- Scientific Papers and Prose Writings (revised by Leslie Spier and updated by David Mandelbaum), 1906-1944Edward Sapir | p. 197
- Addenda to Sapir's Scientific BibliographyE.F.K. Koerner | p. 211
- Index of Names
- Location of Pictures and Illustrations
- Edward Sapir (Chicago, ca.1930)
- Edward Sapir (New Haven, ca.1936)
- Edward Sapir, his wife Florence, née Delson (d. 21 April 1924), and their first-born son, Michael, in front of 357 Elgin Street (Ottawa, Summer 1913)
- Edward Sapir (Ottawa, ca.1913)
- Facsimile of ‘Time Perspective’ (1916)
- Facsimile of ‘Language: An introduction to the study of speech’ (1921)
- Facsimile of ‘Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality’ (1949)
- Sapir's residence during the years 1915-16 at 67 Aylmer Street, Ottawa, Canada. (Picture taken in 1983, with William Cowan and Konrad Koerner in the foreground.)
- Sapir's residence during the years 1917-20 at 1 Findlay Avenue, Ottawa, Canada. (Picture dating from summer 1983.)
- Thomas Talbot Waterman (1885-1936), Paul Radin (1883-1959), Ishi (d. 1916), Robert Harry Lowie (1883-1957), and Sapir (Berkeley, California, August 1915)
- Paul Sidney Martin (1899-1874), Fay-Cooper Cole (1881-1961), and Sapir (departure for a field trip to the Southwest, Chicago, ca.1926)
- Edward Sapir's first classification of North American Indian languages as published in Science N.S. vol.54, No.1400, p.408 (1921)
- Facsimile of title and copyright statement of Shin-ichi Kurokawa's translation of “Sound Patterns in Language” and “The Psychological Reality of Phonemes” (Tokyo: Taishukan, 1958)
- Facsimile of the title page of the Japanese translation by Mikio Hirabayashi of major portions from ‘Selected Writings of Edward Sapir’ (Tokyo: Hokuseido, 1983)
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The Collected Works of Edward Sapir. Vol. I: General Linguistics. Edited by Pierre Swiggers. Historiographia Linguistica 35:3 ► pp. 468 ff.
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Foster, Michael K.
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1990. Wilhelm Von Humboldt and North American Ethnolinguistics. Historiographia Linguistica 17:1-2 ► pp. 111 ff.
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2020. Edward Sapir. In Last Papers in Linguistic Historiography [Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 128], ► pp. 163 ff.
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