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Sapir, E. (1921)

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One of the first works which really questioned the biases inherent in thinking in terms of what he called 'Standard Average European', this work remains influential to cognitive anthropologists at the end of the 20th century. Along with Benjamin Lee Whorf, Sapir forcefully introduced the idea that language influences thought, an idea which has remained influential in such paradigms as Dan Slobin's 'Speaking for thinking'theory.

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