Sapir, J. David

found: Music of the Diola-Fogny of the Casamance, Senegal, 1998 or 1999;insert (J. David Sapir)

found: Anthropology News (online), J. David Sapir : 1932-2024, December 3, 2024, viewed December 9, 2024(J. David Sapir, a cultural and linguistic anthropologist, West Africanist, and scholar of folklore and ethnographic photography, died August 31, 2024, age 91; son of Jean McClenaghan and Edward Sapir [linguist]; after his father's death in 1939 when he was 6, the family moved to Greenwich Village, New York City; majored in anthropology at Yale, with a thesis on African folktales; PhD at Harvard's Department of Social Relations, 1964, dissertation on the grammar of Diola-Fogny (Jóola, Jola), the language of the Kujamaat Diola, Southern Senegal; his early career was influenced by Claude Lévi-Strauss; assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania, 1966-1972; fellowships at the Laboratoire d'Ethnologie et de Sociologie Comparative, Université de Paris (Nanterre) (1972-73) and the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (1975-76); came to the University of Virginia in 1973, where he taught for 34 years, pivotal in building the new Department of Anthropology in the 1970s and 1980s; in his later career he shifted his focus to visual anthropology; was editor of the journal Visual Anthropology Review and a book series, The Anthropology of Form and Meaning; a black-and-white photographer who enjoyed using antique large-format film cameras) - https://www.anthropology-news.org/articles/j-david-sapir/

found: University of Virginia website, Department of Anthropology, viewed December 9, 2024(J. David Sapir; Professor, Emeritus; specialist in West African languages, folklore and culture, and more generally, in the place of symbolism in human thought) - https://anthropology.as.virginia.edu/people/j-david-sapir