03722nam 2200493 450 991073433780332120230511195429.01-00-326694-01-003-26694-01-000-78412-6(MiAaPQ)EBC7123226(Au-PeEL)EBL7123226(CKB)25201530300041(EXLCZ)992520153030004120230311d2022 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierBoasian verse the poetic and ethnographic work of Edward Sapir, Ruth Benedict, and Margaret Mead /Philipp SchweighauserNew York, NY :Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,2023.1 online resource illustrationsRoutledge Studies in Twentieth Century LiteraturePrint version: Schweighauser, Philipp Boasian Verse Milton : Taylor & Francis Group,c2022 9781032211411 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Soothing Blindness, Piercing Insight: Ruth Benedict's Verse -- Concealing Disclosures -- Yearning for Lost Plenitude -- Of Syncretisms, Foils, and Cautionary Examples -- 2 Margaret Mead: How to Make It New, Differently -- Reinventing the Social World -- Toward an Anthropology of the Senses -- The Public and the Private, In and Out of Verse -- 3 Exerting Poetic License: Edward Sapir's Poetry -- Little Canadian Flowers -- Poetry Magazine -- Playing Seriously With Genres -- Of Desert Sirens -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index."Boasian Verse explores the understudied poetic output of three major twentieth-century anthropologists: Edward Sapir, Ruth Fulton Benedict, and Margaret Mead. Providing a comparative analysis of their anthropological and poetic works, this volume explores the divergent representations of cultural others and the uses of ethnographic studies for cultural critique. This volume aims to illuminate central questions, including: Why did they choose to write poetry about their ethnographic endeavors? Why did they choose to write the way they wrote? Was poetry used to approach the objects of their research in different, perhaps ethically more viable ways? Did poetry allow them to transcend their own primitivist, even evolutionist tendencies, or did it much rather refashion or even amplify those tendencies? This in-depth examination of these ethnographic poems invites both cultural anthropologists and students of literature to reevaluate the Boasian legacy of cultural relativism, primitivism, and residual evolutionism for the twenty-first century. This volume offers a fresh perspective on some of the key texts that have shaped twentieth-and twenty-first-century discussions of culture and cultural relativism, and a unique contribution to readers interested in the dynamic area of multimodal anthropologies"--Provided by publisher.Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature.Anthropologists' writings, AmericanHistory and criticismAnthropology in literatureEthnology in literatureAnthropologists' writings, AmericanHistory and criticism.Anthropology in literature.Ethnology in literature.811/.509921301Schweighauser Philipp1371402MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910734337803321Boasian verse3400495UNINA