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

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

Brad Evans

256 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

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The term culture in its anthropological sense did not enter the American lexicon with force until after 1910—more than a century after Herder began to use it in Germany and another thirty years after E. B. Tylor and Franz Boas made it the object o...

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