Writing anthropologists, sounding primitives : the poetry and scholarship of Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, and Ruth Benedict /
"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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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2021]
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Series: | Critical studies in the history of anthropology.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
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.