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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog contributor b10653561.
- catalog coverage "United States Social life and customs.".
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 445 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0226472639 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0226472647 (pbk.)".
- catalog isPartOf "Women in culture and society".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States Social life and customs.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "305.8/001 21".
- catalog subject "Cultural relativism United States.".
- catalog subject "Ethnocentrism United States.".
- catalog subject "Ethnology Authorship.".
- catalog subject "Ethnology Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "Ethnology United States.".
- catalog subject "Exoticism in literature.".
- catalog subject "Feminist anthropology United States.".
- catalog subject "Women Cross-cultural studies.".
- catalog subject "Women United States Social conditions.".
- catalog subject "Women anthropologists United States.".
- catalog subject "ca GN33 .D5 1998".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Exotics at home : anthropologies, others, American modernity / Micaela di Leonardo.".
- catalog type "Cross-cultural studies. fast".
- catalog type "text".