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Author Herbert, Christopher, 1941-

Title Culture and anomie : ethnographic imagination in the nineteenth century / Christopher Herbert
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1991

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Description x, 364 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Superstitions of Culture -- 1. From Original Sin to Anomie -- 2. Desire, Wealth, and Value: Anomic Themes in Political Economy -- 3. Savagery, Culture, and the Subjectivity of Fieldwork in Early Polynesian Ethnography -- 4. Mayhew's Cockney Polynesia -- 5. The Novel of Cultural Symbolism: Doctor Thorne -- 6. Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
Analysis Culture History
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-342) and index
Subject Culture.
Ethnology -- History.
LC no. 91004366
ISBN 0226327388 (cl)
0226327396 (pa)