Prehistories of the Future

by Barkan, Elazar; Bush, Ronald

• ISBN13: 9780804723909
• ISBN10: 0804723907
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-12-01
• Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr

Summary

Examining 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.

Table of Contents

Contributors
Introduction	p. 1
The Presence of the Past: Ethnographic Thinking/Literary Politics	p. 23
Savage Crowds, Modernism, and Modern Politics	p. 42
Victorian Promiscuity: Greek Ethics and Primitive Exemplars	p. 56
The Moment of Prestidigitation: Magic, Illusion, and Mana in the Thought of Emile Durkheim and Marcel Mauss	p. 95
Patterns of Strangeness: Franz Boas, Modernism, and the Origins of Anthropology	p. 114
Frazer, Einstein, and Free Play	p. 133
In a Glass Darkly: Photography, the Premodern, and Victorian Horror	p. 159
Manipulated Images: European Photographs of Pacific Peoples	p. 175
Travel Engravings and the Construction of the Primitive	p. 202
Gauguin's French Baggage: Decadence and Colonialism in Tahiti	p. 226
Modernism's African Mask: The Stein-Picasso Collaboration	p. 270
The Kind of Person You Have to Sound Like to Sing "Alexander's Ragtime Band"	p. 293
"Remembering the Jungle": Josephine Baker and Modernist Parody	p. 310
Primitive Self: Colonial Impulses in Michel Leiris's L'Afrique fantome	p. 326
Tolerance and Taboo: Modernist Primitivisms and Postmodernist Pieties	p. 339
Modernism, Postmodernism, and Explanation	p. 357
Notes	p. 375
Index	p. 435
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