![]() ![]() His vision of anthropology was profoundly interdisciplinary, merging ethnography with history, while uncovering deep relationships between cultural anthropology, psychology, linguistics, and literary studies. In contrast to many anthropologists today, Sapir was first and foremost a comparativist, always seeking to draw inferences about similarities and differences-as well as deeper historical relationships-among the many languages and cultures he encountered in his career. He is perhaps best remembered for his prodigious talents as a field linguist, documenting dozens of indigenous languages throughout the Americas and beyond. Trained by Franz Boas himself-a key thinker in the history of the profession-Sapir contributed massively to many areas of the emerging discipline, laying the foundations for both symbolic anthropology and psychological anthropology, while advocating powerfully for the role of the creative individual in society throughout his career. ![]() Edward Sapir was the premier linguist among the first generation of American anthropologists. ![]()
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