Writing Anthropologists, Sounding Primitives
re-examines the poetry and scholarship of three of the foremost
figures in the twentieth-century history of U.S.-American
anthropology: Edward Sapir, ...Margaret Mead, and Ruth Benedict. While
they are widely renowned for their contributions to Franz Boas's
early twentieth-century school of cultural relativism, what is far
less known is their shared interest in probing the representational
potential of different media and forms of writing. This dimension
of their work is manifest in Sapir's critical writing on music and
literature and Mead's groundbreaking work with photography and
film. Sapir, Mead, and Benedict together also wrote more than one
thousand poems, which in turn negotiate their own media status and
rivalry with other forms of representation. A. Elisabeth Reichel
presents the first sustained study of the published and unpublished
poetry of Sapir, Mead, and Benedict, charting this largely
unexplored body of work and relevant selections of the writers'
scholarship. In addition to its expansion of early
twentieth-century literary canons, Writing Anthropologists,
Sounding Primitives contributes to current debates about the
relations between different media, sign systems, and modes of sense
perception in literature and other media. Reichel offers a unique
contribution to the history of anthropology by synthesizing and
applying insights from the history of writing, sound studies, and
intermediality studies to poetry and scholarship produced by noted
early twentieth-century U.S.-American cultural anthropologists.
Apresentação Eckert, Cornelia; deGusmão, Neusa M M; Sandra Pereira Tosta ...
Horizontes antropológicos,
09/2017, Letnik:
23, Številka:
49
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Odprti dostop
De acordo com a postura de Cardoso de Oliveira, tal como a cita Zacher (2007), pode-se dizer que a antropologia brasileira se conforma minimamente de modo reflexivo e se faz como antropologia de ...engajamento frente a uma prática, que, além de científica, é política, dado que assume o papel de mediar as relações entre os povos que estuda, sejam índios, negros, mulheres, gays, jovens, velhos, etc. - e o Estado que regula a presença destes em âmbito nacional. O artigo de Letícia Veloso, “Private early childhood education and the democratic imagination: A Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, a mais importante do estado, sempre foi um reduto da branquidade. Links 1Este dossiê respeita as denominações assumidas pelos autores dos textos e deixa em aberto um espaço para futuras discussões. * Contato: chicaeckert@gmail.com ** Contato: neusagusmao@uol.com.br *** Contato: sandra@pucminas.br *** Contato: tdauster@puc-rio.br Creative Commons License Este é um artigo publicado em acesso aberto sob uma licença Creative Commons 1 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Brazil 2 Universidade Estadual de Campinas Brazil 3 Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais Brazil 4 Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro Brazil
On ne doit jamais douter de la capacité d’un petit groupe de personnes à changer le monde : ce sont les célèbres paroles de l’anthropologue américaine Margaret Mead. Dans le même ordre d’idées, une ...poignée de gestionnaires pourraient-ils arriver à améliorer la culture organisationnelle d’une entreprise ? Les recherches scientifiques en éthique et en gestion permettent de valider cette hypothèse. Mais pas seulement…
Drawing from women's testimonials in The Guardian and from contributions of feminist writers, Virginia Woolf, Julia Kristeva, and Margaret Mead, we start a conversation on the positive and energizing ...aspects of menopause in the workplace. We propose a social interpretation of menopause that challenges a pervasive perspective of medical decline: A theorization of “the dialectic of zest,” as inspired by the writings of Margaret Mead. By problematizing the experiences of women going through this transition in the workplace, we reveal how well‐intentioned awareness campaigns can lead to further stigmatization. We thus encourage organizations to not only favor an approach of “education for all” but also extend their social imaginaries beyond medicalized perspectives and coping views. Organizations can then embrace the potential of “zest,” a positive side of menopause that remains largely unknown. We argue that organizations, inspired by a holistic view of menopause in the workplace, can creatively support the professional progressions and ambitions of not only women but also all employees.
ABSTRACT
This article considers how anthropology can grapple with white supremacy by conceptualizing it as global and in relation to religion. Drawing on the exchange published as A Rap on ...Race between anthropologist Margaret Mead and the writer James Baldwin, I address the connection of religion and moral belief to racism, white supremacy, and the critique of racial liberalism. In their conversation, Mead and Baldwin discuss Christianity and white supremacy revealing a complex conjuring of Islam and Muslims that I describe as racecraft. The racialization of religion and the theological components of white supremacy have a particular relevance to the construction of anti‐Muslim racism. To describe how ethnography and anthropological theory can intervene, I offer an example of the study of white supremacy and discuss the implications. racism, religion, white supremacy, Margaret Mead, James Baldwin
RESUMEN
Este artículo considera cómo la antropología puede lidiar con la supremacía blanca al conceptualizarla como global y en relación con la religión. Con base en el intercambio publicado como Una Conversación sobre Raza entre la antropóloga Margarita Mead y el escritor James Baldwin, abordo la conexión de religión y creencia moral con racismo, supremacía blanca, y la crítica del liberalismo racial. En su conversación, Mead y Baldwin discuten cristiandad y supremacía blanca revelando un conjuro complejo del islamismo y los musulmanes que describo como racecraft. La racialización de la religión y los componentes teológicos de la supremacía blanca tienen una relevancia particular para la construcción del racismo anti‐musulmán. Para describir cómo la etnografía y la teoría antropológica pueden intervenir, ofrezco un ejemplo del estudio de la supremacía blanca y discuto las implicaciones. racismo, religión, supremacía blanca, Margaret Mead, James Baldwin
En el presente artículo se realiza un análisis de la seguridad social, desde la perspectiva de género en Latinoamérica específicamente en Chile, Brasil y Colombia. Desarrollando en la primera parte, ...el reconocimiento que hacen las constituciones y la ley de Chile, Brasil y Colombia, de la mujer a través del derecho a la igualdad y no discriminación, junto con la especial protección que se hace de la mujer. En la segunda parte de esta investigación se hace un acercamiento al Estado Bienestar y la seguridad social y, por último, se contrastará el derecho a la seguridad social con los datos estadísticos en el reconocimiento de las pensiones de las mujeres en Chile, Brasil y Colombia.
In 1928 Margaret Mead published Coming of Age in Samoa , a fascinating study of the lives of adolescent girls that transformed Mead herself into an academic celebrity. In 1983 anthropologist Derek ...Freeman published a scathing critique of Mead’s Samoan research, badly damaging her reputation. Resonating beyond academic circles, his case against Mead tapped into important public concerns of the 1980s, including sexual permissiveness, cultural relativism, and the nature/nurture debate. In venues from the New York Times to the TV show Donahue , Freeman argued that Mead had been “hoaxed” by Samoans whose innocent lies she took at face value.     In The Trashing of Margaret Mead , Paul Shankman explores the many dimensions of the Mead-Freeman controversy as it developed publicly and as it played out privately, including the personal relationships, professional rivalries, and larger-than-life personalities that drove it. Providing a critical perspective on Freeman’s arguments, Shankman reviews key questions about Samoan sexuality, the alleged hoaxing of Mead, and the meaning of the controversy. Why were Freeman’s arguments so readily accepted by pundits outside the field of anthropology? What did Samoans themselves think? Can Mead’s reputation be salvaged from the quicksand of controversy? Written in an engaging, clear style and based on a careful review of the evidence, The Trashing of Margaret Mead illuminates questions of enduring significance to the academy and beyond.     2010 Distinguished Lecturer in Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History
Writing Anthropologists, Sounding Primitives re-examines the poetry and scholarship of three of the foremost figures in the twentieth-century history of U.S.-American anthropology: Edward Sapir, ...Margaret Mead, and Ruth Benedict. While they are widely renowned for their contributions to Franz Boas’s early twentieth-century school of cultural relativism, what is far less known is their shared interest in probing the representational potential of different media and forms of writing. This dimension of their work is manifest in Sapir’s critical writing on music and literature and Mead’s groundbreaking work with photography and film. Sapir, Mead, and Benedict together also wrote more than one thousand poems, which in turn negotiate their own media status and rivalry with other forms of representation. A. Elisabeth Reichel presents the first sustained study of the published and unpublished poetry of Sapir, Mead, and Benedict, charting this largely unexplored body of work and relevant selections of the writers’ scholarship. In addition to its expansion of early twentieth-century literary canons, Writing Anthropologists, Sounding Primitives contributes to current debates about the relations between different media, sign systems, and modes of sense perception in literature and other media. Reichel offers a unique contribution to the history of anthropology by synthesizing and applying insights from the history of writing, sound studies, and intermediality studies to poetry and scholarship produced by noted early twentieth-century U.S.-American cultural anthropologists.
En este artículo se pasa revisión a la vida y obra de Margaret Mead, tal vez la primera mujer que defendió que los “roles sexuales” (lo que ahora entendemos por “género”) no estaban determinados ...biológicamente sino construidos culturalmente. En el texto se argumenta que existen contradicciones y confusiones en su trabajo, derivados de las que caracterizaron su propia vida personal. Porque a pesar de defender teóricamente la construcción cultural del género, la enorme presión del orden patriarcal de comienzos del siglo XX no debió permitirle internalizar que realmente se podía ser una persona individualizada e inteligente si se era una mujer, lo que la llevó a construir un mito sobre ella misma que ponía en el centro su supuesta tendencia maternal, que vendría a demostrar inapelablemente que era mujer y no hombre. No solo su hija contradijo el carácter maternal de su madre, sino que el propio argumento, propio del orden patriarcal, hacía derivar del sexo actitudes y comportamientos (el carácter maternal de las mujeres), contradiciendo así la argumentación teórica por la que se hizo famosa.
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