Writing Anthropologists, Sounding Primitives : The Poetry and Scholarship of Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, and Ruth Benedict /
Reichel, A. Elisabeth,
Writing Anthropologists, Sounding Primitives : The Poetry and Scholarship of Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, and Ruth Benedict / A. Elisabeth Reichel. - 1 online resource (462 pages). - Critical studies in the history of anthropology . - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
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.
Open Access
"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 cultural anthropologists"--
9781496227546
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.
Writing Anthropologists, Sounding Primitives : The Poetry and Scholarship of Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, and Ruth Benedict / A. Elisabeth Reichel. - 1 online resource (462 pages). - Critical studies in the history of anthropology . - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
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.
Open Access
"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 cultural anthropologists"--
9781496227546
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.