Patterns for America : : Modernism and the Concept of Culture / / Susan Hegeman.
In recent decades, historians and social theorists have given much thought to the concept of "culture," its origins in Western thought, and its usefulness for social analysis. In this book, Susan Hegeman focuses on the term's history in the United States in the first half of the twent...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [1999] ©1999 |
| Year of Publication: | 1999 |
| Edition: | Core Textbook |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (274 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. The Domestication of Culture
- 1. Modernism, Anthropology, Culture
- 2. Dry Salvages: Spatiality, Nationalism, and the Invention of an "Anthropological" Culture
- 3. The National Genius: Van Wyck Brooks, Edward Sapir, and the Problem of the Individual
- 4. Terrains of Culture: Ruth Benedict, Waldo Frank, and the Spatialization of the Culture Concept
- 5. The Culture of the Middle: Class, Taste, and Region in the 1930s Politics of Art
- 6. "Beyond Relativity": James Agee and Others, Toward the Cold War
- 7. On Getting Rid of Culture: An Inconclusive Conclusion
- Notes
- Index