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In:Edward Sapir – Appraisals of his life and work
Edited by E.F.K. Koerner †
[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences 36] 1984
► pp. vii–x

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Table of contents

Acknowledgementsv

Introductionxi

Part I: Obituaries and Biographical Sketches, 1939-1952

Franz Boas (1858-1942): Edward Sapir [1939]3

Franklin Edgerton (1885-1963): Edward Sapir (1884-1939)5

Diamond Jenness (1886-1969): Edward Sapir (1884-1939)9

Harry Stack Sullivan (1892-1949): Edward Sapir, Ph.D., SC.D., 1884-193912

Leslie Spier (1893-1961): Edward Sapir [excerpt]13

Ruth Fulton Benedict (1887-1948): Edward Sapir [1939]15

Morris Swadesh (1909-1967): Edward Sapir [1939]19

David Goodman Mandelbaum (b.1911): Edward Sapir [1941]23

Charles Frederick Voegelin (b.1906): Edward Sapir [1952]33

Part II: Comments on Sapir's Work, 1919-1953

Review of Time Perspective in Aboriginal American Culture (1916)39

Robert Harry Lowie

Review of Language: An introduction to the study of speech (1921)43

Robert Harry Lowie

Review of Language (1921)47

Leonard Bloomfield

A Study of Language [excerpt]51

Alfred Louis Kroeber

Review of Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality (1949)53

Review of Selected Writings (1949)59

Stanley S. Newman

Review of Selected Writings (1949)66

Joseph H. Greenberg

Review article on Selected Writings (1949)69

Zellig S. Harris

Edward Sapir and the Training of Anthropological Linguists [1953]115

Part III: Appraisals of Sapir's Life and Work, 1956-1980

Comments on Edward Sapir, his Personality and Scholarship [1956]121

Robert Harry Lowie

Reflections on Edward Sapir, Scholar and Man [1959]131

Alfred Louis Kroeber

The Culture Historic Implications of Sapir's Linguistic Classification (1961)141

Sapir's Phonologic Representation (1967)153

James D. McCawley

The Sapir Years at the Canadian National Museum in Ottawa (1976)159

Reflections on Sapir's Anthropology in Canada (1980)179

Richard J. Preston

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), 1906-1944197

Addenda to Sapir's Scientific Bibliography211

Index of Names219

Location of Pictures and Illustrations

Edward Sapir (Chicago, ca.1930)x

Edward Sapir (New Haven, ca.1936)2

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)8

Edward Sapir (Ottawa, ca.1913)38

Facsimile of ‘Time Perspective’ (1916)42

Facsimile of ‘Language: An introduction to the study of speech’ (1921)50

Facsimile of ‘Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality’ (1949)52

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.)58

Sapir's residence during the years 1917-20 at 1 Findlay Avenue, Ottawa, Canada. (Picture dating from summer 1983.)58

Thomas Talbot Waterman (1885-1936), Paul Radin (1883-1959), Ishi (d. 1916), Robert Harry Lowie (1883-1957), and Sapir (Berkeley, California, August 1915)120

Paul Sidney Martin (1899-1874), Fay-Cooper Cole (1881-1961), and Sapir (departure for a field trip to the Southwest, Chicago, ca.1926)120

Edward Sapir's first classification of North American Indian languages as published in Science N.S. vol.54, No.1400, p.408 (1921)140

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)196

Facsimile of the title page of the Japanese translation by Mikio Hirabayashi of major portions from ‘Selected Writings of Edward Sapir’ (Tokyo: Hokuseido, 1983)210