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Autore |
Reichel A. Elisabeth |
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Titolo |
Writing anthropologists, sounding primitives : the poetry and scholarship of Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, and Ruth Benedict / / A. Elisabeth Reichel |
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Lincoln : , : University of Nebraska Press, , [2021] |
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©2021 |
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ISBN |
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1-4962-2752-2 |
1-4962-2608-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (319 pages) |
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Collana |
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Critical studies in the history of anthropology |
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Soggetti |
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Anthropologists' writings, American - History and criticism |
American poetry - 20th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-384) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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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