02625nam 2200493 450 991052465030332120220615093920.01-4962-2752-21-4962-2608-9(CKB)5590000000504075(MiAaPQ)EBC6645814(Au-PeEL)EBL6645814(OCoLC)1257702925(MdBmJHUP)muse93337(EXLCZ)99559000000050407520220205d2021 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierWriting anthropologists, sounding primitives the poetry and scholarship of Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, and Ruth Benedict /A. Elisabeth ReichelLincoln :University of Nebraska Press,[2021]©20211 online resource (319 pages)Critical studies in the history of anthropology1-4962-2754-9 Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-384) and index.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."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"--Provided by publisher.Critical studies in the history of anthropology.Anthropologists' writings, AmericanHistory and criticismAmerican poetry20th centuryAnthropologists' writings, AmericanHistory and criticism.American poetry808.1Reichel A. Elisabeth1141128MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910524650303321Writing anthropologists, sounding primitives2679347UNINA