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This work presents Sapir's most comprehensive statement on the concepts of culture, on method and theory in anthropology and other social sciences, on personality organization, and on the individual's place in culture and society. Extensive discussions on the role of language and other symbolic systems in culture, ethnographic method, and social interaction are also included.

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• Introduction to the Anniversary Edition(p. vii)
• Acknowledgements(p. xxi)
• Editor's Introduction(p. 1)
• Part I The Concept of Culture
• 1. The Term "Culture": Three uses of the term; culture as selection and value(p. 23)
• 2. The Concept of Culture in the Social Sciences: "Cultural" vs. "social"; methodological and epistemological problems in the social sciences in general, and anthropology in particular(p. 40)
• 3. Causes of Culture: To what extent do factors such as race, geography, psychology, and economy influence cultural form?(p. 64)
• 4. Elements of Culture: The contents of culture: trait inventory vs. functional pattern(p. 84)
• 5. The Patterning of Culture: The configurative point of view; language as example of patterning; an ethnographic example: the Nootka topati - a concept of 'privilege'(p. 103)
• 6. The Development of Culture: Concepts of progress and change; technological, moral, and aesthetic processes; developmental cycles(p. 124)
• Part II The Individual's Place in Culture
• 7. Personality: The individual as bearer of culture; definitions of personality; the psychiatric approach(p. 139)
• 8. Psychological Types: A review and critique of Jung(p. 152)
• 9. Psychological Aspects of Culture: The difficulty of delimiting a boundary between personality and culture; attitudes, values, and symbolic structures as cultural patterns; culture as "as-if" psychology; a critique of Benedict and Mead(p. 175)
• 10. The Adjustment of the Individual in Society: Individual adjustment and neurosis; adjustment to changing social conditions; socialization; can there be a true science of man? the emergence of culture in interpersonal relations(p. 191)
• 11. The Concept of "Primitive Mentality" Critiques of Freud, Levy-Bruhl, and Malinowski; the importance of aesthetic imagination as the form-giver of culture(p. 208)
• Part III Symbolic Structures and Experience (1933-34)
• 12. Symbolism: Types of symbols; symbols and signs; speech as a symbolic system; symbolism and social psychology; etiquette(p. 219)
• 13. The Impact of Culture on Personality: The field of "Culture and Personality"; concluding remarks(p. 208)
• References(p. 247)
• Index(p. 254)

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Edward Sapir, an American anthropologist, was one of the founders of both modern linguistics and the field of personality and culture. He wrote poetry, essays, and music, as well as scholarly works. Margaret Mead noted that "it was in the vivid, voluminous correspondence with [Edward Sapir] that [Ruth Benedict's] own poetic interest and capacity matured." In the field of linguistics, Sapir developed phonemic theory---the analysis of the sounds of a language according to the pattern of their distribution---and he analyzed some 10 American Indian languages. In cultural anthropology, he contributed to personality-and-culture studies by insisting that the true locus of culture is in the interactions of specific individuals and in the meanings that the participants abstract from these interactions. (Bowker Author Biography)