Pillars of Process
This chapter explores Muriel Rukeyser's unfinished work on Franz Boas and her engagement with cultural anthropology and indigenous knowledge systems that would be foundational for the work she was producing in the Cold War period. The chapter tells how this gave her new modes and histories to t...
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crcornellup:10.7591/cornell/9781501762321.003.0007 2024-06-09T07:46:00+00:00 Pillars of Process Franz Boas, Birth, and Indigenous Thought Kennedy-Epstein, Rowena 2022 http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501762321.003.0007 en eng Cornell University Press Unfinished Spirit page 135-159 ISBN 9781501762321 9781501762345 book-chapter 2022 crcornellup https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501762321.003.0007 2024-05-14T12:54:13Z This chapter explores Muriel Rukeyser's unfinished work on Franz Boas and her engagement with cultural anthropology and indigenous knowledge systems that would be foundational for the work she was producing in the Cold War period. The chapter tells how this gave her new modes and histories to think through and helped her find a language of process that she would use to describe the experience of birth and motherhood. By examining Rukeyser's work on Boas, it also shows the long influence of indigenous thought on midcentury feminism and the aesthetics of the modernist avant-garde. The chapter then traces the legacies of American experimentalism and political radicalism to the ideas and practices of the First Nations peoples. The chapter concludes by noting that Rukeyser's unfinished work on Boas is key to understanding the conditions of her fragmented midcentury life. However, its unfinished nature also shows how her work continued to develop and grow despite the lattice of anticommunist and anti-woman strictures that she would learn to work around and through. A history that becomes visible only as you follow her in and out of the archives. Book Part First Nations Cornell University Press 135 159 |
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This chapter explores Muriel Rukeyser's unfinished work on Franz Boas and her engagement with cultural anthropology and indigenous knowledge systems that would be foundational for the work she was producing in the Cold War period. The chapter tells how this gave her new modes and histories to think through and helped her find a language of process that she would use to describe the experience of birth and motherhood. By examining Rukeyser's work on Boas, it also shows the long influence of indigenous thought on midcentury feminism and the aesthetics of the modernist avant-garde. The chapter then traces the legacies of American experimentalism and political radicalism to the ideas and practices of the First Nations peoples. The chapter concludes by noting that Rukeyser's unfinished work on Boas is key to understanding the conditions of her fragmented midcentury life. However, its unfinished nature also shows how her work continued to develop and grow despite the lattice of anticommunist and anti-woman strictures that she would learn to work around and through. A history that becomes visible only as you follow her in and out of the archives. |
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