J. David Sapir
American anthropologist
J. David Sapir (1932 – August 30, 2024) was an American linguist, anthropologist and photographer.
Life and career
The son of Edward Sapir, he was born in 1932. After completing his PhD at Harvard University, 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
Sapir died on August 30, 2024, at the age of 91.
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.
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