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"Boasian Verse explores the understudied poetic output of three major twentieth-century anthropologists: Edward Sapir, Ruth Fulton 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"--

Anthropologists' writings, American --- Anthropology in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Sapir, Edward, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- American anthropologists' writings --- Anthropologists' literary writings, American --- American literature --- Ethnology in literature. --- Benedict, Ruth, --- Mead, Margaret, --- Mid, Margaret, --- Mīd, Mārgārit, --- ميد، مارگارت --- Benedict, Ruth Fulton --- ベネディクト, ルース

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History of Anthropology is a series of annual volumes, inaugurated in 1983, each of which treats a theme of major importance in both the history and current practice of anthropological inquiry. Drawing its title from a poem of W.H. Auden's, the present volume, Malinowski, Rivers, Benedict, and Others (the fourth in the series) focuses on the emergence of anthropological interest in "culture and personality" during the 1920s and 1930s. It also explores the historical, cultural, literary, and biological background of major figures associated with the movement, including Bronislaw Manlinowski, Edward Sapir, Abram Kardiner, Ruth Benedict, Margaret Mead, and Gregory Bateson. Born in the aftermath of World War I, flowering in the years before and after World War II, severely attacked in the 1950s and 1960s, "culture and personality" was subsequently reborn as "psychological anthropology." Whether this foreshadows the emergence of a major anthropological subdiscipline (equivalent to cultural, social, biological, or linguistic anthropology) from the current welter of "adjectival" anthropologies remain to be seen. In the meantime, the essays collected in the volume may encourage a rethinking of the historical roots of many issues of current concern. Included in this volume are the contributions of Jeremy MacClancy, William C. Manson, William Jackson, Richard Handler, Regna Darnell, Virginia Yans-McLaughlin, James A. Boon, and the editor.

Ethnopsychology --- Personality and culture. --- Cross-cultural psychology --- Ethnic groups --- Ethnic psychology --- Folk-psychology --- Indigenous peoples --- National psychology --- Psychological anthropology --- Psychology, Cross-cultural --- Psychology, Ethnic --- Psychology, National --- Psychology, Racial --- Race psychology --- Psychology --- National characteristics --- Civilization and personality --- Culture and personality --- Civilization --- Culture --- History. --- Personality and culture --- Personnalité et culture --- Ethnopsychologie --- History --- Histoire --- Benedict, Ruth, --- Malinowski, Bronislaw, --- Rivers, W. H. R. --- Rivers, William Halse Rivers, --- Malinowski, Bronislaus, --- Malinowski, B. --- Malinovski, Bronislav, --- Malinovskiĭ, Bronislav, --- מלינובסקי, ברוניסלב, --- Benedict, Ruth Fulton --- ベネディクト, ルース

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The work of four early women ethnographers--Elsie Clews Parsons, Ruth Benedict, Gladys Reichard, and Ruth Underhill-- and their emphases on women's roles in Southwestern Indian cultures.

Indians of North America --- Ethnology --- Women anthropologists --- Feminist anthropology --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Anthropologists, Women --- Anthropologists --- Women social scientists --- Feminist ethnography --- Feminist ethnology --- Social life and customs. --- Fieldwork --- History. --- Reichard, Gladys Amanda, --- Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, --- Benedict, Ruth, --- Underhill, Ruth, --- Reichard, Gladys A. --- Clews, Elsie Worthington, --- Parsons, Elsie Clews, --- Parsons, Herbert, --- Main, John, --- Benedict, Ruth Fulton --- ベネディクト, ルース --- אנדרהיל, רות --- Underhill, Ruth M., --- Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews --- Clews, Elsie Worthington --- Parsons, Elsie Clews --- Parsons, Herbert --- Main, John