Culture, Language and Personality

This selection of Edward Sapir’s best-known writings has been made at the publisher’s request so that a wide circle of readers can come to know and find pleasure in his thought and style. These essays, nine in number, representative of his contributions in three fields of learning, have been chosen from the larger collection entitled Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture, and Personality published in 1949 by the University of California Press.