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

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Reichel, A. Elisabeth (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2021]
Series:Critical studies in the history of anthropology.
Subjects:
Mead, Margaret, > 1901-1978 > Criticism and interpretation.
Benedict, Ruth, > 1887-1948 > Criticism and interpretation.
Sapir, Edward, > 1884-1939 > Criticism and interpretation.
Sapir, Edward, > 1884-1939.
Mead, Margaret, > 1901-1978.
Benedict, Ruth, > 1887-1948.
1900-1999
American poetry > 20th century.
Anthropologists' writings, American > History and criticism.
Poésie américaine > 20e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Anthropologists' writings, American.
American poetry.
Poetry
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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.

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