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Paperback Before Cultures: The Ethnographic Imagination in American Literature, 1865-1920 Book

ISBN: 0226222640

ISBN13: 9780226222646

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

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The term culture in its anthropological sense did not enter the American lexicon with force until after 1910--more than a century after Herder began to use it in Germany and another thirty years after E. B. Tylor and Franz Boas made it the object of anthropological attention. Before Cultures explores this delay in the development of the culture concept and its relation to the description of difference in late nineteenth-century America...

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