Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-232) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : the failed genealogies of culture -- Eccentricity : Cushing's Zuni sketchbooks and American notions of culture -- Circulating culture : reading the Harris-Powell folklore debate -- The object-life of books : collecting local color -- Howellsian chic : the local color of cosmopolitanism -- The ends of culture : W.E.B. Du Bois and the legacy of Boasian anthropology -- Afterword: On literature and anthropology.
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