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J. David Sapir (1932-2024), son of Edward Sapir, was a linguist, anthropologist and photographer. After completing his PhD at Harvard, he was assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania (1966-1972) and professor of Anthropology at the University of Virginia from 1973 until his retirement. He is known for his research on Jola languages. He has been editor of the journal Visual Anthropology Review

He graduated from Harvard University (PhD).

Selected publications

• 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

1. Introducing Edward Sapir. J. David Sapir. Language in Society, Vol. 14, No. 3 (Sep., 1985), pp. 289-297
2. "J. David Sapir - Anthropology News". www.anthropology-news.org. Retrieved 2025-01-16.
3. "Department of Anthropology". Archived from the original on 2013-12-10. Retrieved 2012-09-28.
4. Bridging Gaps: J. David Sapir blends anthropology and photography into a mind-opening Internet experience. By Porscha Chavon Burke
5. "Wrong shelf. | UC Berkeley Library" (PDF). www.lib.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2025-01-16.

External links

• http://fixingshadows.net/ Archived 2014-12-17 at the Wayback Machine
• http://people.virginia.edu/~ds8s/Kujamaat-Joola/

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