Exotics at Home: Anthropologies, Others, and American Modernity (Women in Culture & Society Series WCS) - Hardcover

Di Leonardo, Micaela

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226472639 ISBN 13: 9780226472638

Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 1998

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Book by di Leonardo Micaela

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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.

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• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0226472639
• ISBN 13: 9780226472638
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 464