Prehistories of the future : the primitivist project and the culture of modernism / edited by Elazar...
Prehistories of the future : the primitivist project and the culture of modernism / edited by Elazar...
Prehistories of the future : the primitivist project and the culture of modernism / edited by Elazar Barkan and Ronald Bush.
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Publisher
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1995.
Date
1995.
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N305.8/71
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English
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xii, 449 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction / Elazar Barkan and Ronald Bush -- The Presence of the Past: Ethnographic Thinking/Literary Politics / Ronald Bush -- Savage Crowds, Modernism, and Modern Politics / Robert Nye -- Victorian Promiscuity: Greek Ethics and Primitive Exemplars / Elazar Barkan -- The Moment of Prestidigitati...
The Kind of Person You Have to Sound Like to Sing "Alexander's Ragtime Band" / Robert Dawidoff -- "Remembering the Jungle": Josephine Baker and Modernist Parody / Wendy Martin -- Primitive Self: Colonial Impulses in Michel Leiris's L'Afrique fantome / Marie-Denise Shelton -- Tolerance and Taboo: Mod...
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Publisher
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1995.
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California
Date Published
1995.
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Summary
"This volume reconsiders primitivism and modernism, emphasizing an earlier chronology than has been conventionally accepted and showing how ethnographic materials shaped a variety of high and low discourses (ethnology, social theory, gender construction, and classical scholarship, as well as travel photography) at the turn of the century. Acknowled...
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Prehistories of the future : the primitivist project and the culture of modernism / edited by Elazar Barkan and Ronald Bush.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-434) and index.
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N305.8/71
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74Vv2b32b75O
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ISBN
0804724865 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
9780804723909 (cloth : acid-free paper)
0804723907 (cloth : acid-free paper)
9780804724869 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
DDC
306
MMS ID
991004088879702626
