Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality

Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality, edited by David G. Mandelbaum, brings together the essential work of one of the most brilliant and wide-ranging intellectuals of the twentieth century. Sapir's genius lay in his ability to combine meticulous analysis of linguistic data with sweeping theoretical insight. His contributions in linguistics spanned Germanic, Indo-European, and Semitic traditions, but his most groundbreaking work came from the study of Americ...