| Description |
xvi, 445 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Women in culture and society |
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Women in culture and society.
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| Contents |
Foreword / Catharine R. Stimpson -- 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 |
| Summary |
What is the exotic, after all? In this study, Micaela di Leonardo reveals the face of power within the mask of cultural difference. Focusing on the intimate and shifting relations between popular portrayals of exotic Others and the practice of anthropology, that profession assumed to be America's Guardian of the Offbeat, she casts new light on gender, race, and the public sphere in America's past and present. Chicago's 1893 Columbian World Exposition and today's college-town ethnic boutiques frame di Leonardo's century-long analysis |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Cultural relativism -- United States.
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Ethnocentrism -- United States.
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Ethnology -- Authorship.
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Ethnology -- Philosophy.
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Ethnology -- United States.
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Exoticism in literature.
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Feminist anthropology -- United States.
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Women anthropologists -- United States.
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Women -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Women -- United States -- Social conditions.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140527
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| LC no. |
97048475 |
| ISBN |
0226472639 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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