Edward Sapir (/səˈpɪər/; January 26, 1884 – February 4, 1939) was an American anthropologist-linguist, who is widely considered to be one of the most important...

them. Although common, the term Sapir–Whorf hypothesis is sometimes considered a misnomer for several reasons: Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf never...

conceptualize the world. Whorf saw this idea, named after him and his mentor Edward Sapir, as having implications similar to those of Einstein's principle of physical...

areas. The concept became part of linguistic typology with the work of Edward Sapir, who used it as one of his basic typological categories. Recently, Mark...

Canadian style of anthropology. Scholars include the linguist and Boasian Edward Sapir. Anthropology in France has a less clear genealogy than the British and...

origin in a language spoken in Beringia, between the two continents. Edward Sapir originally constructed the term Na-Dene to refer to a combined family...

role in linguistics, as the background for a famous article by linguist Edward Sapir and his collaborator Tony Tillohash on the nature of the phoneme. The...

are in accordance to those developed by the ethnologist and linguist Edward Sapir, and used by the Canadian Museum of Civilization. These people traditionally...

Banning, California. Edward Sapir. 1930. Southern Paiute, a Shoshonean Language. Reprinted in 1992 in: The Collected Works of Edward Sapir, X, Southern Paiute...

students were A. L. Kroeber, Alexander Goldenweiser, Ruth Benedict, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Zora Neale Hurston, and Gilberto Freyre. Boas was one...