Writing anthropologists, sounding primitives : the poetry and scholarship of Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, and Ruth Benedict / / A. Elisabeth Reichel

• Autore: Reichel A. Elisabeth
• Pubblicazione: Lincoln : , : University of Nebraska Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (319 pages)
• Disciplina: 808.1
• Soggetto topico: Anthropologists' writings, American - History and criticism; American poetry - 20th century
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-384) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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"--
• Titolo autorizzato: Writing anthropologists, sounding primitives
• ISBN: 1-4962-2752-2; 1-4962-2608-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910524650303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Critical studies in the history of anthropology.