Edward Sapir
Author
Series
International journal of American linguistics volume 21, no. 4, pt. 2
Publisher
[Indiana University, Research Center in Anthropology, Folklore, and Linguistics]
Pub. Date
[1955]
Language
English
Author
Series
Daedalus volume 65, no. 1-3
Publisher
[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]
Pub. Date
[1931]
Language
English
8) Navaho texts
Author
Publisher
Linguistic Society of America, University of Iowa
Pub. Date
1942
Language
English
Author
Publisher
M. de Gruyter
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
This work presents Sapir's most comprehensive statement on the concept of culture, on method and theory in anthropology and other social sciences, on personality organization, and on the individual's place in culture and society. Extensive discussions of the role of language and other symbolic systems in culture, ethnographic method, and social interaction are also included. Ethnographic and linguistic examples are drawn from Sapir's fieldwork among...
13) Navaho phonology
Author
Series
Publisher
The University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
1945.
Language
English
Series
Psyche miniatures. General volume no. 37
Publisher
K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. ltd
Pub. Date
1931
Language
English
15) Religious life
Series
Man and his world volume 11
Publisher
D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[1929]
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
Speech is so familiar a feature of daily life that we rarely pause to define it. It seems as natural to man as walking, and only less so than breathing. Yet it needs but a moment's reflection to convince us that this naturalness of speech is but an illusory feeling. The process of acquiring speech is, in sober fact, an utterly different sort of thing from the process of learning to walk…
One theory is that primitive words were imitative of sounds:...