Writing Anthropologists, Sounding Primitives: The Poetry And Scholarship Of Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, And Ruth Benedict (Critical Studies In The History Of Anthropology)

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.

• | Author: A. Elisabeth Reichel
• | Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• | Publication Date: August 01, 2021
• | Number of Pages: 430 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1496226089
• | ISBN-13: 9781496226082