Philipp Schweighauser, Gabriele Rippl, Silvy Chakkalakal, A. Elisabeth Reichel

Amerikastudien/American Studies, Volume 63 (2018), Issue 4, Page 431 - 440

Philipp Schweighauser

Amerikastudien/American Studies, Volume 63 (2018), Issue 4, Page 541 - 541

This essay surveys one of the less explored Boasian legacies: the significant body of over 1,000 poems written by the three major Boasian anthropologists Margaret Mead, Ruth Fulton Benedict, and Edward Sapir. Over 380 of these poems were published, some of them in renowned magazines such as ‘Poetry’, ‘The Dial’, ‘The Measure’, ‘The Nation’, and ‘The New Republic’. Focusing on what I call their “ethnographic poems”—poems that engage with subjects and issues they encountered in their ethnographic work—I draw on two understandings of the word “aesthetics” (as the Baumgartian “science of sensuous cognition” and as the philosophy of art and beauty) to probe what ethical, political, and epistemological differences it makes whether one writes about other cultures in verse or scientific prose. The essay offers close readings of one poem by each: Mead’s “Monuments Rejected” (1925), Benedict’s “In Parables” (1926), and Sapir’s “Zuni” (1926).

Klaus Schmidt, Tibor Fabiny, Philipp Schweighauser, Johannes Voelz, Martin Klepper, Nicole J. Camastra, Birgit Däwes, Michael Butter, Sigrun Meinig, Michael Basseler

Amerikastudien/American Studies, Volume 59 (2015), Issue 2, Page 257 - 257

Philipp Schweighauser, Johannes Fehrle, Frank Gado, Nele Sawallisch, Kurt Müller, Joanne van der Woude, Julia Roth, Wolfgang Hochbruck, Günter Leypoldt, Annette G. Aubert, Christa Buschendorf, Maria Daxelbichler, Gerd Hurm

Amerikastudien/American Studies, Volume 59 (2015), Issue 3, Page 447 - 447

Philipp Schweighauser

Amerikastudien/American Studies, Volume 58 (2014), Issue 3, Page 465 - 505