January 31, 2021 Journal article Closed Access

Reichel, A. Elisabeth

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      <creatorName>Reichel, A. Elisabeth</creatorName>
      <givenName>A. Elisabeth</givenName>
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    <title>"For you have given me speech!"—Gifted Ethnographers, Illiterate Primitives, and Media Epistemologies in the Poetry and Plurimedial Writing of Margaret Mead</title>
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  <publisher>Zenodo</publisher>
  <publicationYear>2021</publicationYear>
  <subjects>
    <subject>Margaret Mead; cultural anthropology; ethnography; plurimediality; literacy/writing; poetry</subject>
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    <date dateType="Issued">2021-01-31</date>
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    <description descriptionType="Abstract">&lt;p&gt;This article centers on the role of the medium of alphabetic writing in the poetry and scholarship of Margaret Mead (1901&amp;ndash;1978), one of the most prolific writers of 20th-century U.S.-American anthropology. I argue that Mead&amp;rsquo;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&amp;rsquo;s demarcation of her subjects&amp;rsquo; 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&amp;rsquo;s largely unexplored poetic writing and then consider the plurimedial work that grew out of her fieldwork in Bali.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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