Author: Barkan, Elazar & Bush, Ronald; editors:
Title: Prehistories of the Future: The Primitivist Project and the Culture of Modernism
Description: Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1995. orig.boards. 23x15cm, xii,449 pp. Textual illustrations.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contains 16 papers. Includes: R. Bush "The Presence of the Past: Ethnographic Thinking / Literary Politics"; R. Nye "Savage Crowds, Modernism & Modern Politics"; E. Barkan "Victorian Promiscuity: Greek Ethics & Primitive Examples"; V. Crapanzano "The Moment of Prestidigitation: Magic, Illusion, & Mana in the Thought of Emile Durkheim & Marcel Mauss"; J.E. Liss "Patterns of Strangeness: Franz Boas, Modernism,´& the Origins of Anthropology; C. Herbert "Frazer, Einstein, & Free Play" ; J.L. Marsh "In a Glass Darkly: Photography, the Premodern, & Victorian Horror"; V.-L. Webb "Manipulated Images: European Photographs of Pacific Peoples"; C.B. Steiner "Travel Engravings & the Construction of the Primitive"; N. Perloff "Gaugin's French Baggage: Decadence & Colonialism in Tahiti"; M. North "Modernism's African Mask: The Stein-Picasso Collaboration"; R. Dawidoff "The Kind of Person You Have to Sound Like to Sing 'Alexander's Ragtime Band'"; W. Martin "'Remembering the Jungle: Josephine Baker & Modernist Parody"; M.-D. Shelton "Primitive Self: Colonial Impulses in Michel Leiris's 'LAfrique fantôme'"; M. Perloff " Tolerance & Taboo: Modernist Primitivisms & Postmodernist Pieties"; F. Kermode "Modernism, Postmodernism, & Explanation".

Keywords: History of Ethnology, Anthropology, Ethnography, Literary Criticism, Modernist Primitive, Modernism, Social Theory, Primitivist Modern, Primitivism