| Description |
1 online resource (pages cm). |
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text file |
| Series |
Critical studies in the history of anthropology
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Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Critical studies in the history of anthropology.
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| Contents |
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. |
| Access |
Open Access Unrestricted online access |
| Summary |
"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. |
| Local Note |
Project Muse Project Muse Open Access |
| Subject |
Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939. |
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Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978. |
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Benedict, Ruth, 1887-1948. |
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Benedict, Ruth, 1887-1948 -- Criticism and interpretation. |
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Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978 -- Criticism and interpretation. |
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Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 -- Criticism and interpretation. |
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Anthropologists' writings, American. |
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American poetry. |
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American poetry -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Anthropologists' writings, American -- History and criticism.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books. .
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| Added Author |
Project Muse, distributor.
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| ISBN |
9781496227546 |
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1496227549 |
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9781496226082 |
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1496226089 |
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