TY - BOOK AU - Reichel,A.Elisabeth ED - Project Muse. TI - Writing Anthropologists, Sounding Primitives : : The Poetry and Scholarship of Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, and Ruth Benedict / T2 - Critical studies in the history of anthropology SN - 9781496227546 PY - 2021/// CY - Lincoln PB - University of Nebraska Press KW - Sapir, Edward, KW - Mead, Margaret, KW - Benedict, Ruth, KW - Anthropologists' writings, American KW - fast KW - American poetry KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 N2 - "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"-- UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/84467/ ER -