Exotics at home : anthropologies, others, American modernity
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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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Includes bibliographical references and index
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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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