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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Autor Principal:	Reichel, A. Elisabeth (Author)
Formato:	Electrónico eBook
Idioma:	inglés
Publicado:	Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2021.
Series:	Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:	Sapir, Edward, > 1884-1939. Mead, Margaret, > 1901-1978. Benedict, Ruth, > 1887-1948. Benedict, Ruth, > 1887-1948 > Criticism and interpretation. Mead, Margaret, > 1901-1978 > Criticism and interpretation. Sapir, Edward, > 1884-1939 > Criticism and interpretation. Anthropologists' writings, American. American poetry. American poetry > 20th century. Anthropologists' writings, American > History and criticism. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Electronic books.
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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.

Writing Anthropologists, Sounding Primitives : The Poetry and Scholarship of Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, and Ruth Benedict /

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