{"product_id":"prehistories-of-the-future-9780804723909","title":"Prehistories of the Future","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamining 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is an unusually rich, subtle, and rewarding collection that brings varied approaches to a crucial topic in modern cultural history. . . . The essays recognize the multi-faceted and complicated nature of the fin-de-siècle conundrum of modernism and primitivism.”—Michael P. Steinberg, Cornell University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction Elazar Barkan and Ronald Bush; Part I. Savage Anxieties: 1. The presence of the past: ethnographic thinking\/literary politics Ronald Bush; 2. Savage crowds, modernism, and modern politics Robert Nye; 3. Victorian promiscuity: Greek ethics and primitive exemplars Elazar Barkan; Part II. Raw Anthropology: 4. The moment of prestidigitation: magic, illusion and mana in the thought of Emile Durkheim and Marcel Mauss Vincent Crapanzano; 5. Patterns of strangeness: Franz Boas, modernism, and the origins of anthropology Julia E. Liss; Part III. Victorian Vertigo: 6. In a glass darkly: photography, the premodern, and Victorian horror Joss Lutz Marsh; Part IV. (Ethno)graphic Images: 7. Manipulated images: European photographs of Pacific peoples Virgina-Lee Webb; 8. Travel engravings and the construction of the primitive Christopher B. Steiner; 9. Gauguin's French baggage: decadence and colonialism in Tahiti Nancy Perloff; 10. Modernism's African mask: the Stein-Pica sso collaboration Michael North; Part V. Culture and Displacements: 11. The kind of person you have to sound like to sing 'Alexander's Ragtime Band' Robert Dawidoff; 12. Primitive self: colonial impulses in Michel Leiris's L'Afrique fantome Marie-Denise Shelton; 13. Tolerance and taboo: modernist primitivisms and postmodernist pieties Marjorie Perloff; Part VI. Modernism Reconsidered: 14. Modernism, postmodernism and explanation Frank Kermode; Notes; Index.","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48737387282775,"sku":"9780804723909","price":99.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804723909.jpg?v=1723811158","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/prehistories-of-the-future-9780804723909","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}