Writing anthropologists, sounding primitives : : the poetry and scholarship of Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, and Ruth Benedict / / A. Elisabeth Reichel.

• Superior document: Critical studies in the history of anthropology
• VerfasserIn: Reichel, A. Elisabeth,
• Place / Publishing House: Lincoln : : University of Nebraska Press,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Critical studies in the history of anthropology.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (319 pages)

"Writing Anthropologists, Sounding Primitives" offers a contribution to the history of anthropology by synthesizing and applying insights from the history of writing, sound studies, and intermediality studies to poetry and scholarship produced by early twentieth-century U.S.-American cultural anthropologists"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Introduction : poets, anthropologists, primitives -- Of mumbling melody, soft singing, and slow speech : constructions of sonic otherness in the poetry of Edward Sapir -- On alternating sounds : musical alterities in Sapir's poetry and critical writings -- Interlude : French-Canadian folk songs in translation -- "For you have given me speech!" : gifted literates, illiterate primitives, and Margaret Mead -- Toward unnerving the us : the poetry and scholarship of Ruth Benedict -- Conclusion : cultural and media evolutionism in Boasian anthropology and beyond -- Appendix: The Complete Poetry of Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, and Ruth Benedict.