Edward Sapir (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Regna Darnell
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: 1884-1939
- Setting: The United States and Canada
- Principal Characters: Edward Sapir, Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict, Margaret Mead, Alfred Kroeber, Harry Stack Sullivan, Leonard Bloomfield, Florence Delson Sapir, Jean Mcclenaghan Sapir
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Philosophy or philosophers, Linguistics or linguists, Human behavior, Anthropology or anthropologists
- Locales: United States, Canada
Edward Sapir is best known to general readers as the author of Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech (1921). Still in print, this popular introduction to linguistics, while dated in some respects, remains a lively and accessible work. As a linguist and anthropologist, a man of wide-ranging interests who was involved in some of the main currents of modern American intellectual life, Sapir would seem to be a good candidate for a biography intended for the general reader. In Edward Sapir: Linguist, Anthropologist, Humanist, the first full-length biography of Sapir;...
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