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“For you have given me speech!”—Gifted Ethnographers, Illiterate Primitives, and Media Epistemologies in the Poetry and Plurimedial Writing of Margaret Mead

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dc.creator	Reichel, A. Elisabeth	-
dc.date.accessioned	2022-04-05T10:55:11Z	-
dc.date.available	2022-04-05T10:55:11Z	-
dc.date.issued	2021-06-01	-
dc.identifier.citation	Postcolonial Interventions, 6, 1, 2021, 195-245	ger
dc.identifier.uri	https://doi.org/10.48693/85	-
dc.identifier.uri	https://osnadocs.ub.uni-osnabrueck.de/handle/ds-202204056535	-
dc.description.abstract	This article centers on the role of the medium of alphabetic writing in the poetry and scholarship of Margaret Mead (1901–1978), one of the most prolific writers of 20th-century U.S.-American anthropology. I argue that Mead’s writing about and with words is continuous with the Eurocentric cultural evolutionist understanding of phonetic writing as a marker of ultimate human advancement. Mead’s demarcation of her subjects’ alterity by their lack of and failure to use the medium of script extends the process of epistemic colonization well into the 20th century, a process that denies the people that anthropologists study the ability to become involved with the very discourses that cast them in this position of objects of study. I first focus on Mead’s largely unexplored poetic writing and then consider the plurimedial work that grew out of her fieldwork in Bali.	eng
dc.relation	https://postcolonialinterventions.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/reichel-final-version-14-may.pdf	ger
dc.subject	Margaret Mead	ger
dc.subject	Anthropologie	ger
dc.subject	Lyrik	ger
dc.subject	Intermedialität	ger
dc.subject	Fotografie	ger
dc.subject.ddc	810 - Englische Literatur Amerikas	ger
dc.title	“For you have given me speech!”—Gifted Ethnographers, Illiterate Primitives, and Media Epistemologies in the Poetry and Plurimedial Writing of Margaret Mead	eng
dc.type	Einzelbeitrag in einer wissenschaftlichen Zeitschrift [article]	ger
dc.subject.bk	18.06 - Angloamerikanische Literatur	ger
dc.identifier.doi	10.5281/zenodo.4781318	-
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