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

List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction The Failed Genealogies of Culture 1(23) Eccentricity Cushing's Zuni Sketchbooks and American Notions of Culture 24(27) Circulating Culture Reading the Harris-Powell Folklore Debate 51(31) The Object-Life of Books Collecting Local Color 82(27) Howellsian Chic The Local Color of Cosmopolitanism 109(43) The Ends of Culture W.E.B. Du Bois and the Legacy of Boasian Anthropology 152(38) AFTERWORD On Literature and Anthropology 190(7) Notes 197(36) Index 233