Edward Sapir

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).

"Darnell has made a major contribution to the history of anthropology, and her work is likely to remain the definitive one."—L. Kimball, Choice "This complex biography of Edward Sapir's life and ideas offers fresh insights, opens up further avenues of inquiry, and challenges us to ask new questions."—Barrik Van Winkle, American Indian Quarterly "A revealing account of Sapir's professional career and, from that perspective, his role in the history of linguistics and anthropology in North America."—Ward H. Goodenough, American Anthropologist"[Darnell has] drawn a fine, full picture of Sapir, dissolving a mythic image in a real life. It is an excellent biography and a major contribution to the history of the profession."—Richard J. Preston, American Ethnologist

• 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 - Interdisciplinary Social Science  Harry Stack Sullivan  Harold Lasswell  The Social Science Research Council  The Hanover Conferences  Sapir's American Indian Acculturation Project  The SSRC Committee on Personality and Culture16 - Organizing Social Science Research and Training  The First Colloquium  The Second Colloquium  The National Research Council  The NRC Culture and Personality Conference  The NRC Subcommittee on Training Fellowships17 - The Impact Seminar: The Call to Yale  The Call to Columbia  The Frank Seminar Proposal  John Dollard  Selection of the Fellows  The Program of the Seminar  Results of the Impact Seminar18 - The Academic Program at Yale: Anthropology  Yale Students in Ethnology19 - The Academic Program at Yale: Linguistics  Sapir's Return to Indo-European  The First Yale School of Linguistics  Whorf and the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis20 - The Yale Institute of Human Relations  The Medical School Alternative  Dollard's Realignment with the IHR21 - Dénouement  Sapir's Relation to Judaism  Illness and Retreat  Sapir's Initial Illness  The Sapir-Sullivan-Lasswell Research Institute  The Final Illness  Responses to Sapir's DeathNotesAbbreviations  Archival Documents  Institutional Abbreviations  Journal AbbreviationsBibliography  References Cited  Complete Bibliography of Edward SapirIndex