Boasian verse : : the poetic and ethnographic work of Edward Sapir, Ruth Benedict, and Margaret Mead / / Philipp Schweighauser.

"Boasian Verse explores the understudied poetic output of three major twentieth-century anthropologists: Edward Sapir, Ruth Fulton Benedict, and Margaret Mead. Providing a comparative analysis of their anthropological and poetic works, this volume explores the divergent representations of cultu...

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Superior document:Routledge Studies in Twentieth Century Literature
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,, 2023.
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature.
Physical Description:1 online resource :; illustrations.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Series
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 Soothing Blindness, Piercing Insight: Ruth Benedict's Verse
  • Concealing Disclosures
  • Yearning for Lost Plenitude
  • Of Syncretisms, Foils, and Cautionary Examples
  • 2 Margaret Mead: How to Make It New, Differently
  • Reinventing the Social World
  • Toward an Anthropology of the Senses
  • The Public and the Private, In and Out of Verse
  • 3 Exerting Poetic License: Edward Sapir's Poetry
  • Little Canadian Flowers
  • Poetry Magazine
  • Playing Seriously With Genres
  • Of Desert Sirens
  • Conclusion
  • Works Cited
  • Index.