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Informationen zum Autor Regna Darnell is Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and First Nations Studies at the University of Western Ontario. She is the author or editor of several books, including Invisible Genealogies: A History of Americanist Anthropology (Nebraska 2001), and coeditor (with Frederic W. Gleach) of Celebrating a Century of the American Anthropological Association: Presidential Portraits (Nebraska 2002). Klappentext This first full-scale biography of Edward Sapir (1884–1939) does justice to the life and ideas of the most distinguished linguist of Boasian anthropology, who contributed substantially to the professionalization of linguistics as an independent discipline. Sapir was the first to apply comparative Indo-European methods to the study of American Indian languages, pursuing fieldwork on more than twenty of them. His theoretical work on the relationship between the individual personality and culture remains a major part of culture theory in anthropology, as does his insistence on the symbolic nature of culture and the importance of culture as understood and articulated by its members. The first professional anthropologist in Canada and teacher of a whole generation of North American linguists and anthropologists at Chicago and Yale, Sapir also wrote poetry and literary criticism. He insisted on the humanistic nature of anthropology and was the most articulate spokesman for the interdisciplinary social science of the late 1920s and 1930s. All the richness and diversity of Sapir’s relatively short life are conveyed by Regna Darnell in an engrossing narrative that combines profound knowledge of her subject with historical reconstruction. Zusammenfassung This first full-scale biography of Edward Sapir (1884-1939) does justice to the life and ideas of the most distinguished linguist of Boasian anthropology! who contributed substantially to the professionalization of linguistics as an independent discipline. All the richness and diversity of Sapir's relatively short life are conveyed by Regna Darnell in an engrossing narrative. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionPreface1 - The Early Years Columbia University The Undergraduate Years The Graduate Years2 - Apprenticeship California The University of Pennsylvania False Starts3 - Ottawa: Maturity and Independence Organizing Anthropological Research in Canada Public Affairs The Tribulations of Museum Anthropology4 - The Ottawa Research Team Sapir's Ottawa Fieldwork Ishi: A Brief Return to California World War I and Its Aftermath5 - Synthesizing the Boasian Paradigm The Phonetics Report Time Perspective Language: The Public Statement6 - The Classification of American Indian Languages The Beginnings of the Classificatory Mania The Radin Fiasco The Six-Unit Classification The Indo-Chinese Hypothesis7 - Reorientation toward Psychology Family and Personal Problems Early Contacts with Psychology Kroeber: Psychoanalysis and the Superorganic8 - Experiments in Aesthetics Music An Experiment with the Aesthetics of Design Poetry Ottawa Intellectual and Social Life The Effects of War9 - Psychologizing Boasian Anthropology Ruth Benedict Margaret Mead10 - Escape from Ottawa Boasian Machinations at Columbia Sapir's Appointment at Chicago The Continued Lure of Columbia11 - The University of Chicago: A New Start The University of Chicago Chicago Sociology Sapir and the Chicago Sociologists Rockefeller Foundation Funding in Chicago12 - Chicago Anthropology The Anthropological Fiefdom Sapir's Teaching at Chicago13 - Sapir's Commitment to Athabaskan Collaboration with Father Berard Haile The Southwest Laboratory of Anthropology Publishing Navajo Texts The Bureau of Indian Affairs14 - The Professionalization of Linguistics The Linguistic Society of America The Linguistic Institutes Leonard Bloomfield IALA and English Semantics The Committee on American Indian Languages15 - Interdisc...
