Synopsis
Discover the roots of Sapir’s monographic work on Wishram culture and language, and the scholarly effort to preserve a vanishing world.
Volume VII of The Collected Works brings together Sapir’s early field work with the Wishram, a Chinookan group of the Pacific Northwest, and the later ethnographic synthesis co-authored with Leslie Spier. It includes Wishram Texts (1909) and Wishram Ethnography (1930), along with a retranscription and reinterpretation of Sapir’s first narrative by Dell Hymes. The editors provide fresh typography, corrected text, and a newly prepared index that covers the entire volume, with extensive editorial notes to guide readers through the material.
Preparation of these monographic volumes was aided by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Phillips Fund, and the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The volume situates language and culture within the broader goals of salvage ethnography, highlighting the urgency felt by Boasian anthropologists to record dying languages and cultures at the eleventh hour. It also frames Sapir’s fieldwork in the context of his evolving theories on culture, personality, and symbolic anthropology.
- Explore core Wishram texts and ethnographic accounts that illuminate language, myth, and daily life
- See how editorial decisions preserve original material while making it accessible to modern readers
- Understand the collaboration between Sapir, Spier, and their translators and consultants
- Learn how salvage ethnography and linguistic work intersect in this landmark series
Ideal for readers of linguistic history, anthropology, and Pacific Northwest Indigenous studies.
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