Writing Anthropologists, Sounding Primitives: The Poetry and Scholarship of Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, and Ruth Benedict PDF
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Writing Anthropologists, Sounding Primitives () Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology Series Editors Regna Darnell Robert Oppenheim Writing Anthropologists, Sounding Primitives The Poetry and Scholarship of Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, and Ruth Benedict () A. Elisabeth Reichel University of Nebraska Press Lincoln © 2021 by the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska. Acknowledgments for the use of previously published material appear on page xvi, which constitutes an extension of the copyright page. All rights reserved The open access version of this publication was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Publication of this work was assisted by the Murray- Hong Family Trust, to honor and sustain the distinguished legacy of Stephen O. Murray in the History of Anthropology at the University of Nebraska Press. Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Names: Reichel, A. Elisabeth, author. Title: Writing anthropologists, sounding primitives: the poetry and scholarship of Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, and Ruth Benedict / A. Elisabeth Reichel. Description: Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. | Series: Critical studies in the history of anthropology | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: lccn 2020039758 isbn 9781496226082 (hardback) isbn 9781496227522 (epub) isbn 9781496227539 (mobi) isbn 9781496227546 (pdf) Subjects: lcsh: Sapir, Edward, 1884– 1939— Criticism and interpretation. | Mead, Margaret, 1901– 1978— Criticism and interpretation. | Benedict, Ruth, 1887– 1948— Criticism and interpretation. | Anthropologists’ writings, American— History and criticism. | American poetry— 20th century. Classification: lcc ps323.5 r353 2021 | ddc 808.1— dc23 lc record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020039758 Set in Arno Pro by Mikala Kolander. In memory of Mary Catherine Bateson ( 1939–2021) I love some of my printed books as much as anyone can. Just the same, my heart always beats faster at a book of blank pages than it does at any book filled with printing. Ruth Benedict “Preface to an Anthology” Contents List of Illustrations xi Series Editors’ Introduction xiii Acknowledgments xv Editorial Note on Archival Sources xvii Introduction: Poets, Anthropologists, Primitives 1 1. Of Mumbling Melody, Soft Singing, and Slow Speech: Constructions of Sonic Otherness in the Poetry of Edward Sapir 27 2. On Alternating Sounds: Musical Alterities in Sapir’s Poetry and Critical Writings 81 Interlude: French Canadian Folk Songs in Translation 125 3. “For You Have Given Me Speech!”: Gifted Literates, Illiterate Primitives, and Margaret Mead 139 4. Toward Unnerving the Us: The Poetry and Scholarship of Ruth Benedict 185 Conclusion: Cultural and Media Evolutionism in Boasian Anthropology and Beyond 227 Appendix: The Complete Poetry of Edward Sapir, Ruth Benedict, and Margaret Mead 237 The Poetry of Edward Sapir 237 The Poetry of Ruth Benedict 276 The Poetry of Margaret Mead 287 Notes 299 Bibliography 345 Index 385
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