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Writing anthropologists, sounding primitives : the poetry and scholarship of Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, and Ruth Benedict
Title
Writing anthropologists, sounding primitives : the poetry and scholarship of Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, and Ruth Benedict / A. Elisabeth Reichel.
ISBN
9781496226082
1496226089
9781496227522
9781496227539
9781496227546
Publication
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2021]
Physical Description
xvii, 406 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Summary
"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.
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Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 02, 2021
Series
Critical studies in the history of anthropology
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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