Person
Edward Sapir
American linguist and cultural anthropologist, born in Pomerania, who taught at Chicago and Yale and wrote Language (1921). In his later writings he argued that culture lives in the interactions of particular persons, and he worked with Harry Stack Sullivan from the late 1920s on bringing psychiatry and the social sciences together.
Influence
Affinity
- influenced Harry Stack Sullivan
Sullivan drew on Sapir's linguistics and on his view that culture is lived in the relations between particular people; the lectures cite Sapir's writings on language repeatedly.
- collaborated with Harry Stack Sullivan
From the late 1920s until Sapir's death in 1939 the two worked together to bring psychiatry and the social sciences into one field of inquiry.
References
- Psychiatrist of America: The Life of Harry Stack Sullivan1982Evidence for a relation