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The Collected Works of Edward Sapir, vol., Ethnology. (book reviews)

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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, March 1st, 1996

To paraphrase the publisher's blurb: Intending to publish (under the general editorship of Philip Sapir) all the works of Edward Sapir (1884-1939) some fifty years after his death is to testify to the lasting relevance of 'one of the most brilliant scholars in linguistics and anthropology in our country' [Franz Boas]: responsible for laying the foundations of the American descriptive school of structural linguistics, as for a humanistic modelling of the interrelation between culture and personality, between society and the individual. With his 'textual method' of ethnographic analysis, Sapir...

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