Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939
Contributed to
ne11Native accounts of Nootka ethnography
Native accounts of Nootka ethnographybook chapter 1955
ne11Vancouver Island Indians
Vancouver Island Indiansessay 1922
ne11A Girl's puberty ceremony among the Nootka Indians
A Girl's puberty ceremony among the Nootka Indiansarticle 1913
nf08Kinship terms of the Kootenay Indians
Kinship terms of the Kootenay Indiansarticle 1918
- Summary
- Edward Sapir was an American anthropologist-linguist, who is widely considered to be one of the most important figures in the development of the discipline of linguistics in the United States. Wikipedia
- Gender or Sex
- Male [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]
- Born
- 1884 [5]
- 1884-01-26 [3]
- Birth Place
- Lębork [3]
- Lębork (Pologne) [6]
- Died
- 1939 [5]
- 1939-02-04 [3]
- Death Place
- New Haven [3]
- New Haven (Connecticut, États-Unis) [6]
- Country
- United States [5]
- Language
- English [6]
- Occupation
- anthropologist [3]
- linguist [3]
- sociolinguist [3]
- university teacher [3]
- ethnologist [3]
- philosopher [3]
- Profession
- Anthropologe [5]
- Employer
- Yale University [3]
- University of Chicago [3]
- Educated at
- DeWitt Clinton High School [3]
- Stuyvesant High School [3]
- Columbia University [3]
- Country of Education
- United States [3]
- Encyclopædia Britannica
- Biography [3]
- Yale LUX
- Entity [3]
- Notable Names Database
- Profile [3]
- Oxford Reference
- Overview [3]
- American National Biography
- Biography (requires subscription) [3]
- Sources
- 1. National Library of Korea
- 2. National Library and Archives of Québec
- 3. Wikidata
- 4. VIAF
- 5. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
- 6. Bibliothèque nationale de France
- 7. Library of Congress
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