Sapir

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1. Sapir - Noun

2. Sapir - Proper noun

Meaning

anthropologist and linguist; studied languages of North American Indians (1884-1939)

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Benedict also started a friendship with Edward Sapir who encouraged her to continue the study of the relations between individual creativity and cultural patterns. Source: Internet

Also in 1937, Whorf and his friend G. L. Trager, published a paper in which they elaborated on the Azteco-Tanoan Whorf and Trager suggested the term "Azteco-Tanoan" instead of the label "Aztec-Tanoan" used by Sapir. Source: Internet

Apart from Sapir the division had two other staff members, Marius Barbeau and Harlan I. Smith. Source: Internet

As Jacob Sapir could not provide for his family, Sapir's mother, Eva Seagal Sapir, opened a shop to supply the basic necessities. Source: Internet

Boas: error Boas' student Edward Sapir reached back to the Humboldtian idea that languages contained the key to understanding the world views of peoples. Source: Internet

By introducing the high standards of Boasian anthropology, Sapir incited antagonism from those amateur ethnologists who felt that they had contributed important work. Source: Internet

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