Exotics at home : anthropologies, others, American modernity
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Bibliographic Information
Exotics at home : anthropologies, others, American modernity
(Women in culture and society : a series / edited by Catharine R. Stimpson)
University of Chicago Press, 1998
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Attempting to define the exotic, this text focuses on the shifting relations between popular portrayals of exotic "others" and the practice of anthropology, seeking to cast light on gender, race and the public sphere in America's history. It documents the ways in which constructions of "others", whether voiced by anthropologists, or merely attributed to them, have long been central to visions of modernity, of proper American lives and politics. The text examines the political and economic relations of inequality in cultural discourse - in advertisements, in cartoons, and in the representations of "dusky maidens"; in serious ethnography and New Age narratives; in the New Right's attack on cultural relativism and journalists' and scholars' accounts of American inner city "hearts of darkness"; and "tribal wars" in Africa and Europe.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations Foreword by Catharine R. Stimpson Acknowledgments Prologue: Hidden in Plain Sight Ch. 1: Anthropology and American Morality Plays Ch. 2: The Three Bears, The Great Goddess, and the American Temperament: Anthropology without Anthropologists Ch. 3: Wild Women Don't Have the Blues: The American Pragmatics of the Primitive Woman Ch. 4: The Dusky Maiden and the Postwar American Imperium Ch. 5: Every Woman Her Own Anthropologist: Gender, Revanchism, and the Fissioning Public Sphere Ch. 6: Patterns of Culture Wars: Place, Modernity, and the Contemporary Political Economy of Difference Notes Index
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