J. David Sapir, son of

Edward Sapir Edward Sapir (; January 26, 1884 – February 4, 1939) was an American Jewish anthropologist-linguist, who is widely considered to be one of the most important figures in the development of the discipline of linguistics in the United States. Sap ...

, is a linguist, anthropologist and photographer. He is Emeritus professor of

Anthropology Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including past human species. Social anthropology studies patterns of be ...

at the

University of Virginia The University of Virginia (UVA) is a public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia. Founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson, the university is ranked among the top academic institutions in the United States, with highly selective ad ...

. He is known for his research on

Jola languages Jola (Joola) or Diola is a dialect continuum spoken in Senegal, the Gambia, and Guinea-Bissau. It belongs to the Bak branch of the Niger–Congo language family. Name The name ''Jola'' is an exonym, and may be from the Mandinka word ''joolaa ...

. He has been editor of the journal Visual Anthropology Reviewhttp://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ANTH/pdfs/style_pdf/visual_anthropology_review_v16n1.pdf

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.

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External links

*http://fixingshadows.net/ *http://people.virginia.edu/~ds8s/Kujamaat-Joola/ Living people American anthropologists Linguists from the United States American photographers Jola languages University of Virginia faculty Year of birth missing (living people) Jewish anthropologists {{Atlantic-lang-stub