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Writing anthropologists, sounding primitives : the poetry and scholarship of Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, and Ruth Benedict / A. Elisabeth Reichel

By: Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Critical studies in the history of anthropologyPublisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2021]Description: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 406 pages :) : illustrationsISBN:
  • 9781496226082
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 9781496227522. | 9781496227539. | 9781496227546. DDC classification:
  • 808.1 23
LOC classification:
  • PS323.5
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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!" : 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.
Summary: "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"--PPN: PPN: 1916233260Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
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