Exotics at home
Subtitle: anthropologies, others, American modernity
By: Micaela di Leonardo.
Series: Women in culture and society
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 445
Subjects: Ethnology -- Philosophy; Ethnology -- Authorship; Ethnology -- United States; Ethnocentrism -- United States; Cultural relativism -- United States; Exoticism in literature; Women anthropologists -- United States; Feminist anthropology -- United States; Women -- Cross-cultural studies; Women -- United States -- Social conditions; United States -- Social life and customs
Description: What is the exotic, after all? In this study, Micaela di Leonardo reveals the face of power within the mask of cultural difference. Focusing on the intimate and shifting relations between popular portrayals of exotic Others and the practice of anthropology, that profession assumed to be America's Guardian of the Offbeat, she casts new light on gender, race, and the public sphere in America's past and present.

Chicago's 1893 Columbian World Exposition and today's college-town ethnic boutiques frame di Leonardo's century-long analysis.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.