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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מחבר ראשי: Reichel, A. Elisabeth (Author)
פורמט: אלקטרוני ספר אלקטרוני
שפה:אנגלית
יצא לאור: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2021.
סדרה:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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תוכן הענינים:
  • 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.