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Before cultures

the ethnographic imagination in American literature, 1865-1920

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Before cultures

the ethnographic imagination in American literature, 1865-1920

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University of Chicago Press
Language
English
Pages
244

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Literature and anthropology, Ethnicity in literature, History and criticism, American literature, Ethnology in literature, Ethnic groups im literature, Ethnic groups in literature, History, American literature, history and criticism, 19th century, American literature, history and criticism, 20th century, Litterature americaine, Histoire et critique, Ethnologie dans la litterature, Litterature et anthropologie, Histoire, Groupes ethniques dans la litterature, Ethnicite? dans la litterature, Letterkunde, Amerikaans, Etnische groepen

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19th century, 20th century
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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-232) and index.

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810.9/3552
Library of Congress
PS217.E75 E94 2005, PS217.E75E94 2005

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x, 244 p. :
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244

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OL3396595M
ISBN 10
0226222632, 0226222640
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2005008993
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58986408
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2843893
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OL5819511W

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