Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality

Edward Sapir

University of California Press, 1949 - Culture - 617 pages

Sapir was skillfull at analyzing unwritten languages on the basis of his own fieldwork. He contributed significantly to the mapping of languages and cultures of native America.

Contents

• The Nature of Language: 3
• Sound Patterns in Language: 33
• The Psychological Reality of Phonemes: 46
• A Study in Phonetic Symbolism: 61
• The Concept of Phonetic Law as Tested in Primitive Languages: 73
• Dialect: 83
• Language and Environment: 89
• Communication: 104
• The Function of an International Auxiliary Language: 110
• A Study in Semantics: 122
• The Grammarian and His Language: 150
• The Status of Linguistics as a Science: 160
• Studies of American Indian Languages: 167
• Abnormal Types of Speech in Nootka: 179
• A Chinookan Phonetic Law: 197
• Male and Female Forms of Speech in Yana: 206
• Internal Linguistic Evidence Suggestive of the Northern Origin: 213
• Glottalized Continuants in Navaho Nootka and Kwakiutl with: 225
• Studies of IndoEuropean and Semitic Languages: 251
• Tibetan Influences on Tocharian I: 273
• Hebrew Helmeta Loanword and Its Bearing on IndoEuropean: 285
• IndoEuropean Prevocalic s in Macedonian: 294
• The General View: 305
• Anthropology and Sociology: 332
• The Meaning of Religion: 346
• Group: 357
• Custom: 365
• Fashion: 373
• W A Mason A History of the Art: 382
• DIRECT EVIDENCE FOR TIME PERSPECTIVE: 394
• CONCLUDING REMARKS ON METHOD: 460
• Song Recitative in Pajute Mythology excerpts: 463
• Literature and Music: 489
• The Heuristic Value of Rhyme: 496
• Editors preface: 507
• Oskar Pfister The Psychoanalytic Method: 525
• Speech as a Personality Trait: 533
• The Unconscious Patterning of Behavior in Society: 544
• Personality: 560
• Why Cultural Anthropology Needs the Psychiatrist: 569
• Psychiatric and Cultural Pitfalls in the Business of Getting: 578
• The Emergence of the Concept of Personality in a Study of Cul: 590
• BIBLIOGRAPHY: 601
• Canada Department of Mines Geological Survey Memoir 90 Anthropological: 604
• Poems: 614

About the author

Edward Sapir, an American anthropologist, was one of the founders of both modern linguistics and the field of personality and culture. He wrote poetry, essays, and music, as well as scholarly works. Margaret Mead noted that "it was in the vivid, voluminous correspondence with [Edward Sapir] that [Ruth Benedict's] own poetic interest and capacity matured." In the field of linguistics, Sapir developed phonemic theory---the analysis of the sounds of a language according to the pattern of their distribution---and he analyzed some 10 American Indian languages. In cultural anthropology, he contributed to personality-and-culture studies by insisting that the true locus of culture is in the interactions of specific individuals and in the meanings that the participants abstract from these interactions.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality
• Author: Edward Sapir
• Editor: David Goodman Mandelbaum
• Publisher: University of California Press, 1949
• ISBN: 0520011155, 9780520011151
• Length: 617 pages