Edward Sapir – Appraisals of his life and work

• Acknowledgements | p. v
• Introduction | p. xi
• Part I: Obituaries and Biographical Sketches, 1939-1952
• Franz Boas (1858-1942): Edward Sapir [1939] | p. 3
• Franklin Edgerton (1885-1963): Edward Sapir (1884-1939) | p. 5
• Diamond Jenness (1886-1969): Edward Sapir (1884-1939) | p. 9
• Harry Stack Sullivan (1892-1949): Edward Sapir, Ph.D., SC.D., 1884-1939 | p. 12
• Leslie Spier (1893-1961): Edward Sapir [excerpt] | p. 13
• Ruth Fulton Benedict (1887-1948): Edward Sapir [1939] | p. 15
• Morris Swadesh (1909-1967): Edward Sapir [1939] | p. 19
• David Goodman Mandelbaum (b.1911): Edward Sapir [1941] | p. 23
• Charles Frederick Voegelin (b.1906): Edward Sapir [1952] | p. 33
• 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), 1906-1944
  Edward Sapir | p. 197
• Addenda to Sapir's Scientific Bibliography
  E.F.K. Koerner | p. 211
• Index of Names | p. 219
• Location of Pictures and Illustrations
• Edward Sapir (Chicago, ca.1930) | p. x
• Edward Sapir (New Haven, ca.1936) | p. 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) | p. 8
• Edward Sapir (Ottawa, ca.1913) | p. 38
• Facsimile of ‘Time Perspective’ (1916) | p. 42
• Facsimile of ‘Language: An introduction to the study of speech’ (1921) | p. 50
• Facsimile of ‘Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality’ (1949) | p. 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.) | p. 58
• Sapir's residence during the years 1917-20 at 1 Findlay Avenue, Ottawa, Canada. (Picture dating from summer 1983.) | p. 58
• Thomas Talbot Waterman (1885-1936), Paul Radin (1883-1959), Ishi (d. 1916), Robert Harry Lowie (1883-1957), and Sapir (Berkeley, California, August 1915) | p. 120
• Paul Sidney Martin (1899-1874), Fay-Cooper Cole (1881-1961), and Sapir (departure for a field trip to the Southwest, Chicago, ca.1926) | p. 120
• Edward Sapir's first classification of North American Indian languages as published in Science N.S. vol.54, No.1400, p.408 (1921) | p. 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) | p. 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) | p. 210

Cited by 11 other publications

Darnell, Regna

1991. On the occasion of Silversteinian Musings on the State of Sapiriana. Historiographia Linguistica 18:2-3 ► pp. 419 ff.

Foster, Michael K.

1991.  Regna Darnell. Edward Sapir: Linguist, Anthropologist, Humanist. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1990. Pp. xix + 480. U.S.$29.95 (hardcover).. Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique 36:2 ► pp. 177 ff.

Koerner, E. F. Konrad

1992. The Sapir‐Whorf Hypothesis: A Preliminary History and a Bibliographical Essay. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 2:2 ► pp. 173 ff.

Koerner, E.F.K.

2001. In Memoriam: William G. Cowan (1929–2001). Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique 46:3-4 ► pp. 291 ff.

Koerner, E. F. K.

2008.  The Collected Works of Edward Sapir. Vol. I: General Linguistics. Edited by Pierre Swiggers. Historiographia Linguistica 35:3 ► pp. 468 ff.

Koerner, E. F. Konrad

1990. Wilhelm Von Humboldt and North American Ethnolinguistics. Historiographia Linguistica 17:1-2 ► pp. 111 ff.

Lähteenmäki, Mika

2014. The Soviet reception of Edward Sapir’s linguistic ideas from the 1920s to the 1950s. Russian Linguistics 38:1 ► pp. 47 ff.

RICHLING, BARNETT

1990. Diamond Jenness and the National Museum of Canada: 1930–1947. Curator: The Museum Journal 33:4 ► pp. 245 ff.

Stanlaw, James

2020. Sapir, Edward. In The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology, ► pp. 1 ff.

Vermeulen, Jeroen

2000. Edward Sapir. In Handbook of Pragmatics, ► pp. 1 ff.

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2020. Chapter 7. Edward Sapir. In Last Papers in Linguistic Historiography [Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 128], ► pp. 164 ff.

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