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This work presents Sapir's most comprehensive statement on the
concepts 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 on
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 native North Americans and from European and
American society as well. Edward Sapir (1884-1939), one of this
century's leading figures in American anthropology and linguistics,
planned to publish a major theoretical state - ment on culture and
psychology. He developed his ideas in a course of lectures
presented at Yale University in the 1930s, which attracted a wide
audience from many social science disciplines. Unfortunately, he
died before the book he had contracted to publish could be
realized. Like de Saussure's Cours de Linguistique Generale before
it, this work has been reconstructed from student notes, in this
case twentytwo sets, as well as from Sapir's manuscript materials.
Judith Irvine's meticulous reconstruction makes Sapir's compelling
ideas - of surprisingly contemporary resonance - available for the
first time.
With a simplicity as disarming as it is frank, Left Handed tells of
his birth in the spring of 1868 "when the cottonwood leaves were
about the size of [his] thumbnail," of family chores such as
guarding the sheep near the hogan, and of his sexual awakening. As
he grows older, his account turns to life in the open: nomadic
cattle-raising, farming, trading, communal enterprises, tribal
dances and ceremonies, lovemaking, and marriage. As Left Handed
grows in understanding and stature, the accumulated wisdom of his
people is revealed to him. He learns the Navajo lifeway, which is
founded on the principles of honesty, foresightedness, and
self-discipline. The style of the narrative is almost biblical in
its rhythms, but biblical, too, in many respects, is the
traditional way of life it recounts.
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