Prehistories of the Future by Elazar Barkan HARDBACK 9780804723909

Stanford University Press

Prehistories of the Future\nby Elazar Barkan\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 2\u20133 working days (dispatched today if ordered before 3pm).\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Elazar Barkan\nTitle: Prehistories of the Future\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Social and cultural anthropology\nPublisher: Stanford University Press\nPublication year: 1995\nISBN-13: 9780804723909\nISBN-10: 0804723907\nRRP: \u00A3132.00\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nExamining the emergence of modernism from the fin-de-siecle primitivist project this volume shows how ethnographic materials shaped a variety of high and low discourses (ethnology, social theory, gender construction, classical scholarship, as well as travel photography) at the turn of the century. Illustrated with 98 photographs and d.