Prehistories of the Future

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ISBN: 9780804723909 | 0804723907
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 12/1/1995

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Examining the emergence of modernism from the fin-de-siecle primitivist project this volume shows how ethnographic materials shaped a variety of high and low discourses (ethnology, social theory, gender construction, classical scholarship, as well as travel photography) at the turn of the century. Illustrated with 98 photographs and drawings.

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Introduction	p. 1
The Presence of the Past: Ethnographic Thinking/Literary Politics	p. 23
Savage Crowds, Modernism, and Modern Politics	p. 42
Victorian Promiscuity: Greek Ethics and Primitive Exemplars	p. 56
The Moment of Prestidigitation: Magic, Illusion, and Mana in the Thought of Emile Durkheim and Marcel Mauss	p. 95
Patterns of Strangeness: Franz Boas, Modernism, and the Origins of Anthropology	p. 114
Frazer, Einstein, and Free Play	p. 133
In a Glass Darkly: Photography, the Premodern, and Victorian Horror	p. 159
Manipulated Images: European Photographs of Pacific Peoples	p. 175
Travel Engravings and the Construction of the Primitive	p. 202
Gauguin's French Baggage: Decadence and Colonialism in Tahiti	p. 226
Modernism's African Mask: The Stein-Picasso Collaboration	p. 270
The Kind of Person You Have to Sound Like to Sing "Alexander's Ragtime Band"	p. 293
"Remembering the Jungle": Josephine Baker and Modernist Parody	p. 310
Primitive Self: Colonial Impulses in Michel Leiris's L'Afrique fantome	p. 326
Tolerance and Taboo: Modernist Primitivisms and Postmodernist Pieties	p. 339
Modernism, Postmodernism, and Explanation	p. 357
Notes	p. 375
Index	p. 435
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