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.
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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 cultural anthropologists"--
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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.