Before Cultures
The Ethnographic Imagination in American Literature, 1865-1920
- Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Failed Genealogies of Culture
1. Eccentricity
Cushing’s Zuni Sketchbooks and American Notions of Culture
2. Circulating Culture
Reading the Harris-Powell Folklore Debate
3. The Object-Life of Books
Collecting Local Color
4. Howellsian Chic
The Local Color of Cosmopolitanism
5. The Ends of Culture
W. E. B. Du Bois and the Legacy of Boasian Anthropology
Notes
Index
Anthropology: Cultural and Social Anthropology
Literature and Literary Criticism: American and Canadian Literature
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