Description: (Anthropologist, Linguist, Sociolinguist, University teacher, Ethnologist)
Edward Sapir was a prominent American anthropologist-linguist who made significant contributions to the field of linguistics in the United States. He studied Germanic linguistics at Columbia University under Franz Boas and collaborated with Alfred Kroeber on the study of Native American languages. Sapir's work at the Geological Survey of Canada established him as a leading linguist in North America. He later held professorships at the University of Chicago and Yale, where he focused on the interplay between language and culture, phonology, and the classification of Indigenous languages in the Americas.