Frontmatter -- Frontispiece: Edward Sapir, 1934 -- Preface -- Introduction -- SECTION ONE: TIME PERSPECTIVE -- Introduction -- Time Perspective in Aboriginal American Culture: A Study in Method (1916) -- SECTION TWO: CULTURAL COMMPARISON -- Introduction -- Review of A. A. Goldenweiser, Totemism: An Analytic Study (1912) -- Review of Carl Stumpf, Die Anfänge der Musik (1912) -- A Note on Reciprocal Terms of Relationship in America (1913) -- Review of Erich von Hornbostel, Über ein akustisches Kriterium für Kulturzusammenhänge (1913) -- Terms of Relationship and the Levirate (1916) -- Percy Grainger and Primitive Music (1916) -- Review of James Montgomery (ed.), Religions of the Past and Present (1918) -- Review of Clark Wissler, The American Indian (1919) -- Review of Robert H. Lowie,Primitive Society (in The Dial) (1920) -- Review of Robert H. Lowie, Primitive Society (in The Freeman) (1920) -- Review of Robert H. Lowie, Primitive Society (in The Nation) (1920) -- Review of The Mythology of All Races, Volume XI, Latin American (1921) -- Review of The Mythology of All Races, Volume III, Celtic and Slavic; Volume XI, Latin American: Volume XII, Egyptian and Indo-Chinese (1921) -- Review of Elsie C. Parsons (ed.), American Indian Life (1922) -- Archaeology and Ethnology [an annotated bibliography] (1923) -- Prefatory Note to Harlan I. Smith, An Album of Prehistoric Canadian Art (1923) -- Anthropology at the Toronto Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1924 (1924) -- Review of A. Hyatt Verrill, The American Indian: North, South, and Central America (1927) -- Review of Paul Radin, Crashing Thunder: The Autobiography of an American Indian (1927) -- Review of James Weldon Johnson, The Book of American Negro Spirituals (1928) -- Review of Ruth L. Bunzel, The Pueblo Potter (1929) -- Review of James G. Leyburn, Handbook of Ethnography (1932) -- Review of W. Schmidt, Upton Lectures in Religion [c. 1933, undated] -- SECTION THREE: ETHNOGRAPHY OF NORTH AMERICA -- Introduction -- Northwest Coast -- Notes on the Takelma Indians of Southwestern Oregon (1907) -- [Excerpt from] Preliminary Report on the Language and Mythology of the Upper Chinook (1907) -- Religious Ideas of the Takelma Indians of Southwestern Oregon (1907) -- Takelma (1910) -- Wasco (1910) -- Some Aspects of Nootka Language and Culture (1911) -- The Indians of the Province [of British Columbia] (1912) -- Review of Franz Boas, Kwakiutl Tales (1912) -- A Girl's Puberty Ceremony among the Nootka Indians (1913) -- Indian Tribes of the Coast [of British Columbia] (1914) -- A Sketch of the Social Organization of the Nass River Indians (1915) -- The Social Organization of the West Coast Tribes (1915) -- Tom (1918) -- A Flood Legend of the Nootka Indians of Vancouver Island (1919) -- Nass River Terms of Relationship (1920) -- A Haida Kinship Term among the Tsimshian (1921) -- Guardian Spirit Experiences of the West Coast Tribes [excerpt from letter to Ruth Benedict] (1922) -- Sayach'apis, a Nootka Trader (1922) -- The Blind, Old Indian Tells His Names [poem] (1921) -- [Religion of the] Vancouver Island Indians (1922) -- Indian Legends from Vancouver Island (1925) -- Songs for a Comox Dance Mask (1939) -- California and the Great Basin -- Luck-Stones among the Yana (1908) -- Review of C. Hart Merriam, The Dawn of the World (1910) -- Song Recitative in Paiute Mythology (1910) -- Two Paiute Myths (1910) -- The Mourning Ceremony of the Southern Paiutes [abstract] (1912) -- Yana Terms of Relationship (1918) -- Southern Paiute Song Texts (edited by Pamela Bunte and Robert Franklin, with a Note on Musical Transcriptions by Thomas Vennum, Jr.) (1994) -- Athabaskan -- An Apache Basket Jar (1910) -- A Note on Sarcee Pottery (1923) -- Personal Names among the Sarcee Indians (1924) -- An Expedition to Ancient America (1927) -- A Linguistic Trip among the Navaho Indians (1929) -- A Note on Navaho Pottery (with Albert G. Sandoval) (1930) -- A Navaho Sand Painting Blanket (1935) -- Hupa Tattooing (1936) -- Kutchin Relationship Terms (1936) -- [Foreword to] Walter Dyk, Son of Old Man Hat (1938) -- Other North American Groups -- Review of Frank G. Speck, Ethnology of the Yuchi Indians (1909) -- Indian Tribes and Customs [of the Plains Provinces of Canada] (1914) -- An Ethnological Note on the "Whiskey-Jack" (1918) -- Kinship Terms of the Kootenay Indians (1918) -- Corrigenda to "Kinship Terms of the Kootenay Indians" (1919) -- SECTION FOUR: BEYOND NORTH AMERICA -- Introduction -- Two Chinese Folk-Tales (with Hsü Tsan Hwa) (1923) -- Humor of the Chinese Folk (with Hsü Tsan Hwa) (1923) -- Some Gweabo Proverbs (with Charles G. Blooah) (1929) -- Review of Melville J. Herskovits and Frances S. Herskovits, Rebel Destiny: Among the Bush Negros of Dutch Guiana (1934) -- Review of Melville J. Herskovits, Life in a Haitian Valley (1937) -- SECTION FIVE: ANTHROPOLOGICAL PROGRAM OF THE DOMINION GOVERNMENT OF CANADA, 1910 - 1925 -- Introduction -- An Anthropological Survey of Canada (1911) -- The Work of the Division of Anthropology of the Dominion Government [of Canada] (1912) -- Annual Reports of the Anthropological Division, Geological Survey/ Victoria Memorial Museum, Department of Mines, Canada, 1910-1925 -- Annual Report, Anthropological Division, Geological Survey of Canada, 1911 -- Annual Report, Anthropological Division, Geological Survey of Canada, 1912 -- Annual Report, Anthropological Division, Geological Survey of Canada, 1913 -- Annual Report, Anthropological Division, Geological Survey of Canada, 1914 -- Annual Report, Anthropological Division, Geological Survey of Canada, 1915 -- Annual Report, Anthropological Division, Geological Survey of Canada, 1916 -- Annual Reports, Anthropological Division, Geological Survey of Canada, 1917, 1918, and 1919 -- Annual Report, Anthropological Division, Victoria Memorial Museum, Canada, 1920-21 -- Annual Report, Anthropological Division, Victoria Memorial Museum, Canada, 1921-22 -- Annual Report, Anthropological Division, Victoria Memorial Museum, Canada, 1922-23 -- Annual Report, Anthropological Division, Victoria Memorial Museum, Canada, 1923-24 -- Annual Report, Anthropological Division, Victoria Memorial Museum, Canada, 1924-25 -- Phonetic Key to Publications of Edward Sapir -- References -- Index