Critics against culture : anthropological observers of mass society /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Handler, Richard, 1950-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, [2005]
Subjects:	Ethnology > History. Anthropologists' writings.
Online Access:	Table of contents

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Critics, teachers, observers
Individualism inside out : Tocqueville's Democracy in America
The dainty and the hungry man : literature and anthropology in the work of Edward Sapir
Antiromantic romanticism : Sapir's critique of American individualism
Vigorous male and aspiring female : poetry, personality, and culture in Edward Sapir and Ruth Benedict
Ruth Benedict and the modernist sensibility
American culture in the world : Margaret Mead's And keep your powder dry
Critics against culture : Jules Henry, Richard Hoggart, and the tragicomedy of mass society
Raymond Williams, George Stocking, and fin-de-siècle U.S. anthropology.