Time Perspective in Aboriginal American Culture: A Study in Method
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"Time Perspective in Aboriginal American Culture: A Study in Method" is a seminal anthropological and linguistic work by Edward Sapir that analyzes how Indigenous peoples of the Americas conceptualize and structure time within their cultures.
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| Time Perspective in Aboriginal American Culture: A Study in Method canonical | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
anthropological study
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book ⓘ linguistic study ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline | social sciences ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
propose methods for systematic study of time perspective
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show how different cultures organize temporal experience ⓘ |
| author | Edward Sapir ⓘ |
| contribution |
develops methods for analyzing time concepts cross‑culturally
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illustrates how language reflects cultural time perspective ⓘ influenced later work in ethnography of speaking ⓘ influenced later work in linguistic relativity ⓘ |
| describedAs |
classic study of temporal concepts in Native American cultures
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seminal work in anthropological linguistics ⓘ |
| examines |
cultural variation in time reckoning
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how Indigenous groups conceptualize past, present, and future ⓘ temporal reference in Indigenous American languages ⓘ |
| field |
Boasian linguistics
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surface form:
Americanist linguistics
anthropology ⓘ cultural anthropology ⓘ ethnolinguistics ⓘ linguistics ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
Native American temporal systems
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cultural structuring of time ⓘ methodology for studying time concepts ⓘ relationship between language and culture ⓘ temporal categories in Indigenous languages ⓘ |
| genre |
academic article
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scholarly monograph ⓘ |
| hasAuthorialTheorist | Edward Sapir ⓘ |
| hasKeyConcept |
cultural patterning of time
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linguistic encoding of temporal relations ⓘ |
| hasPerspective | relativist view of cultural time concepts ⓘ |
| influenced |
later studies of time in anthropology
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later studies of time in linguistics ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Aboriginal American cultures
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indigenous peoples of the Americas ⓘ
surface form:
Indigenous peoples of the Americas
cultural conceptions of time ⓘ linguistic expression of time ⓘ time perspective ⓘ |
| methodologicalApproach |
comparative analysis
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ethnographic interpretation ⓘ linguistic analysis ⓘ |
| partOf | Edward Sapir’s corpus on language and culture ⓘ |
| theoreticalContext |
American cultural anthropology tradition
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early 20th‑century linguistic anthropology ⓘ language–culture relationship ⓘ |
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