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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.
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.