Exotics at Home Anthropologies, Others, American Modernity
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
- Publish date: 05/01/1998
Chicago's 1893 Columbian World Exposition and today's college-town ethnic boutiques frame di Leonardo's century-long analysis. She documents the ways in which constructions of Others, whether voiced by anthropologists or merely attributed to them, have long been central to visions of modernity, of proper American lives and politics. Her unsparing critical eye finds the political and economic relations of inequality hidden in plain sight in our cultural discourse -- in Body Shop advertisements, Gary Larson cartoons, and Margaret Mead's career, in the representation of Dusky Maidens in serious ethnography and New Age narratives, in the New Right's attack on cultural relativism and journalists' and scholars' accounts of American inner-city Hearts of Darkness and "tribal" wars in Africa and Europe.
Athropology stands at the crossroads of the foreign and the domestic Other, and di Leonardo's work illuminates that intersection for the first time, bringing exotics home with a vengeance.
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