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Writing Anthropologists, Sounding Primitives : The Poetry and Scholarship of Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, and Ruth Benedict / by Reichel, A. Elisabeth

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!" …”
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