Hi everyone! This is the last post, and in this instance I will talk about a person that I admire in the field of anthropology: Edward Sapir.
Sapir was an american anthropologist linguist and one of the creators of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. He was born in January 26, 1884 in Lauenburg, Prussia, and died in February 4, 1939 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Sapir was one of the first of investigate and study the ways in which language and culture influence each other. In 1921 he affirmed that language determines thought. This idea was developed in 1940, by Benjamin Whorf, for this reason born the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. Sapir has manny books, and the most important (and examples about his work) are "Language: An introduction to the study of speech" (1921) and "Culture, language and personality" (1949).
I admire this anthropologist because give us a different perspective about the anthropology, considering the culture, lenguage, personality, and society at the same time, analysis that other author and anthropologist had never done before.

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  1. Unknown22 November 2017 at 13:30

    Hi Melisa! The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis are very interesting, I think what the language is fundamental for this discipline.

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