Culture, 1922 the emergence of a concept - Manganaro, Marc (Princeton University Press, 2002)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Culture, anthropology, and the "literary" modern -- Making up for lost ground : Eliot's cultural geographies -- Malinowski : writing, culture, function, Kula -- Malinowski, "native" narration, and "the ethnographer's magic" -- Joyce and his critics : notes toward the definition of culture -- Joyce's wholes : culture, tales, and tellings -- Patterns of culture : Ruth Benedict and the new critics -- Hurston, Burke, and the new critics : narrative, context, and magic -- Culture's pasts, presents, and futures
Culture, 1922 traces the intellectual and institutional deployment of the culture concept in England and America in the first half of the twentieth century. With primary attention to how models of culture are created, elaborated upon, transformed, resisted, and ignored, Marc Manganaro works across disciplinary lines to embrace literary, literary critical, and anthropological writing. Tracing two traditions of thinking about culture, as elite products and pursuits and as common and shared systems of values, Manganaro argues that these modernist formulations are not mutually exclusive and have indeed intermingled in complex and interesting ways throughout the development of literary studies and anthropology