ISBN:
9781496226082
Language:
English
Pages:
xvii, 406 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
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24 cm
Series Statement:
Critical studies in the history of anthropology
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Reichel, A. Elisabeth, 1989 - Writing anthropologists, sounding primitives
DDC:
808.1
Keywords:
Sapir, Edward Criticism and interpretation
;
Mead, Margaret Criticism and interpretation
;
Benedict, Ruth Criticism and interpretation
;
Anthropologists' writings, American History and criticism
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American poetry 20th century
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Sapir, Edward 1884-1939
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Mead, Margaret 1901-1978
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Benedict, Ruth 1887-1948
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
"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"--
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 345-384
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Index: Seite 385-406
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