Writing anthropologists, sounding primitives : : the poetry and scholarship of Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, and Ruth Benedict / / A. Elisabeth Reichel.
"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 cultu...
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| Superior document: | Critical studies in the history of anthropology |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Lincoln : : University of Nebraska Press,, [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Critical studies in the history of anthropology.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (319 pages) |
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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.