TY - BOOK ID - 7139022 TI - Edward Sapir : Linguist, Anthropologist, Humanist PY - 2010 SN - 9780803224377 0803224370 PB - Lincoln University of Nebraska press DB - UniCat KW - Sapir, Edward, KW - #KVHA:American Studies KW - #KVHA:Taalkunde; Verenigde Staten KW - #KVHA:Geschiedenis; Amerikaanse linguïstiek KW - #KVHA:Edward Sapir KW - Anthropological linguistics KW - Anthropologists KW - Linguists KW - Anthropo-linguistics KW - Ethnolinguistics KW - Language and ethnicity KW - Linguistic anthropology KW - Linguistics and anthropology KW - Anthropology KW - Language and culture KW - Linguistics KW - Sapir, Edward KW - Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7139022 AB - This first full-scale biography of Edward Sapir (1884-1939) does justice to the life and ideas of the most distinguished linguist of Boasian anthropology, who contributed substantially to the professionalization of linguistics as an independent discipline. Sapir was the first to apply comparative Indo-European methods to the study of American Indian languages, pursuing fieldwork on more than twenty of them. His theoretical work on the relationship between the individual personality and culture remains a major part of culture theory in anthropology, as does his insistence on the symbolic nature of culture and the importance of culture as understood and articulated by its members. The first professional anthropologist in Canada and teacher of a whole generation of North American linguists and anthropologists at Chicago and Yale, Sapir also wrote poetry and literary criticism. He insisted on the humanistic nature of anthropology and was the most articulate spokesman for the interdisciplinary social science of the late 1920s and 1930s. All the richness and diversity of Sapir's relatively short life are conveyed by Regna Darnell in an engrossing narrative that combines profound knowledge of her subject with historical reconstruction. ER -