Cannibal culture : art, appropriation, and the commodification of difference /: art, appropriation, and the commodification of difference. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Deborah Root.
• Authors: Root, Deborah
• Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Chapter I: Fat-Eaters and Aesthetes: Th ePolitics of Display; The White Cannibal; Aristocratic Dreams; From Spectacle to Display; Alibis of Appreciation; Entitlement; A New World Order; Chapter 2: The Luxurious Ambivalence of Exoticism; Alluring Foreigners; Exotic Histories; Tropes of Difference; Fragments of Culture; Connoisseurs of Ambivalence; Colonial Desires; Exotic Sites: Blood and Flowers; Exotic Imaginaries; Surrealist Dreams; Bataille; Eisenstein: Mexico as Redemption; Artaud : Redemptive Madness Chapter 3: Conquest Appropriation and Cultural DifferenceSalvaging Culture; Authenticity and Cultural Integrity; Deterritorialization and Recoding: National Agendas; The New Age: Appropriating the Spirit; Desperate People: Honky Shamans and Wannabe Indians; Grey Owl and the Problem of Identity; Chapter 4: Art and Taxidermy: Th eWarehous eof Treasures; Resacralization of the Authentic Object; Temporality and Writing; Necrophilia; Authentic Details; Commodity Fetishism; The Commodification of the Proper Name; Class and Gender Anxieties; Dead Art; Critical Styles and Death The Marketing of MarginalityAr tand Commerce; Chapter 5: Dreams and Landscapes: Th eDelineation of Wild Spaces; Western Culture and Ho wIt Got That Way; How Ideas Abou tLand Structure Ideas About People; Orientalist Dreams; Colonial Representation and Landscape; Colonial Nightmares; Travel and Delirium; Aristocratic Dreams; Sexual Ambivalences; Land and Madness; Escape and Authority; Chapter 6: The Smokin gMirror; The State Again; Signs and Omens; Refusing the Cannibal; Notes; Bibliography; About the Book and Author; Index
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 701/.03; Art and society; ART / General; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429501890; 0429501897; 9780429981524
• Related ISBNs: 9780813320892; 9780813320885; 042998152X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 25, 2018).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.