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Brad EvansPublication Details
BookUniversity of Chicago Press2005Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS217.E75 E94 2005 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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The term culture in its anthropological sense did not enter the American lexicon with force until after 1910?more than a century after Herder began to use it in Germany and another thirty years after E. Before Cultures explores this delay in the development of the culture concept and its relation to the description of difference in late nineteenth-century America. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- American literature — 19th century — History and criticism
- Ethnology in literature
- Literature and anthropology — United States — History — 19th century
- Literature and anthropology — United States — History — 20th century
- American literature — 20th century — History and criticism
- Ethnic groups in literature
- Ethnicity in literature
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Contents
- Introduction
- The failed genealogies of culture
- Eccentricity : Cushing’s Zuni sketchbooks and American notions of culture
- Circulating culture : reading the Harris-Powell folklore debate
- The object-life of books : collecting local color
- Howellsian chic : the local color of cosmopolitanism
- The ends of culture : W.E.B. Du Bois and the legacy of Boasian anthropology
- Afterword: On literature and anthropology
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- 0226222640
- 0226222632
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