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Culture, Language, and Personality: Selected Writings

by Edward Sapir, David G. Mandelbaum · 1949

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"For sheer brilliance Edward Sapir is unsurpassed by any American anthropologist, living or dead."Cylde Kluckhohn, Harvard University

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