Before cultures : the ethnographic imagination in American literature, 1865 - 1920

Before cultures the ethnographic imagination in American literature, 1865 - 1920

IntroductionThe 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 cosmopolitan...

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1. Verfasser: Evans, Brad (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Chicago u.a. University of Chicago Press 2005
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American literature > History and criticism > Ethnology in literature > Literature and anthropology > History > Ethnic groups in literature > Ethnicity in literature > USA > Literatur > Kulturanthropologie > Ethnische Gruppe > Ethnizität > Geschichte 1865-1920
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Zusammenfassung:IntroductionThe 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.
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
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-232) and index
Beschreibung:X, 244 S.
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24 cm
ISBN:9780226222639
978-0-226-22263-9
0226222632
0-226-22263-2
0226222640
0-226-22264-0