J. David Sapir, son of Edward Sapir,[1] was a linguist, anthropologist and photographer. He is Emeritus professor of Anthropology at the University of Virginia. He is known for his research on Jola languages.[2][3] He has been editor of the journal Visual Anthropology Review[4]
He graduated from Harvard University (PhD).
Selected publications
edit- 2011. A Grammar of Diola-Fogny: A Language Spoken in the Basse-Casamance Region of Senegal. Cambridge University Press
- 1994 - On Fixing Ethnographic Shadows American Ethnologist 21 (4):867-885.
- 1981 The Social Use of Metaphor: Essays on the Anthropology of Rhetoric. 1977. (with J. C. Crocker, eds.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
- 1981 - Kujaama, Symbolic Separation among the Diola-Fogny. American Anthropologist 72 (6):1330-48.
- 1981 - Hyenas, Lepers and Blacksmiths in Kujamaat Social Thought. American Ethnologist 8 (3):526-43.
- 1981 - Fecal Animals, an Example of Complementary Totemism. Man 12:1-21.
- 1965 - The Music of the Diola-Fogny of the Casamance, Sénégal New York: Folkways Records.
- 1965 - A Grammar of Diola-Fogny, Cambridge: University Press
References
edit- ^ Introducing Edward Sapir. J. David Sapir. Language in Society, Vol. 14, No. 3 (Sep., 1985), pp. 289-297
- ^ Department of Anthropology
- ^ Bridging Gaps: J. David Sapir blends anthropology and photography into a mind-opening Internet experience. By Porscha Chavon Burke
- ^ http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ANTH/pdfs/style_pdf/visual_anthropology_review_v16n1.pdf [bare URL PDF]
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