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Boasian Verse - The Poetic and Ethnographic Work of Edward Sapir, Ruth Benedict, and Margaret Mead (Hardcover)
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Boasian Verse - The Poetic and Ethnographic Work of Edward Sapir, Ruth Benedict, and Margaret Mead (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
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Boasian Verse explores the understudied poetic output of three
major twentieth-century anthropologists: Edward Sapir, Ruth
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.
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