He was awarded scholarships to the Horace Mann School and then a Pulitzer fellowship to Columbia College, from which he was graduated in 1904. His intellectual gifts were recognized while he was a schoolboy in New York City. Sapir was born in Pomerania (Germany) and was five years old when his family emigrated to the United States. He wrote poetry, literary essays, and music as well as scholarly works all his writings are characterized by an unusual felicity of style. They are founded on an extraordinary breadth of knowledge, which Sapir used with incisive power of thought and subtlety of analysis. His ideas continue to excite lively interest his writings are widely read his one book, Language, and a volume of his papers have continuously been reprinted. SUPPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY I CONTRIBUTIONS TO CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGYĮdward Sapir (1884-1939) was one of the founders of modern linguistic anthropology, a main contributor to the development of formal descriptive linguistics, a leading figure in cultural anthropology, and a chief stimulator of studies in the relations between personality and culture. CONTRIBUTIONS TO CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY David G.
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