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Micaela di Leonardo

Exotics at Home

Anthropologies, Others, and American Modernity

With a Foreword by Catharine R. Stimpson
464 pages, 446p., 4 halftones, 11 line drawings  6 x 9  © 1998
Series: Women in Culture and Society Series

Cloth $38.00

ISBN: 9780226472638   Published June 1998

Paper $24.00

ISBN: 9780226472645   Published March 2000

List of Illustrations
Foreword, by Catharine R. Stimpson
Acknowledgments
Prologue: Hidden in Plain Sight
1. Anthropology and American Morality Plays
2. The Three Bears, The Great Goddess, and the American
Temperament: Anthropology without Anthropologists
3. Wild Women Don't Have the Blues: The American Pragmatics of the Primitive Woman
4. The Dusky Maiden and the Postwar American Imperium
5. Every Woman Her Own Anthropologist: Gender, Revanchism, and the Fissioning Public Sphere
6. Patterns of Culture Wars: Place, Modernity, and the Contemporary Political Economy of Difference
Notes
Index
Subjects



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