Exotics at home : anthropologies, others, American modernity

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Exotics at home : anthropologies, others, American modernity / Micaela di Leonardo.

Di Leonardo, Micaela, 1949- (Author).

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.

Record details

ISBN: 0226472639
ISBN: 9780226472638
ISBN: 0226149102
ISBN: 9780226149103
ISBN: 0226472647
ISBN: 9780226472645
Physical Description: xvi, 445 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 1998.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: 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.