Prehistories of the Future: The Primitivist Project and the Culture of Modernism

Examining the emergence of modernism from the fin-de-siècle 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.

Author: Elazar Barkan
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 12/01/1995
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.41lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.04w x 0.99d
ISBN: 9780804724869

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