The term "culture" in its anthropological sense did not enter the
American lexicon with force until after 1910--more than a century
after Herder began to use it in Germany and another thirty years
after E. B. Tylor and Franz Boas made it the object of
anthropological attention. "Before Cultures" explores this delay in
the development of the culture concept and its relation to the
description of difference in late nineteenth-century America.
In this work, Brad Evans weaves together the histories of American
literature and anthropology. His study brings alive not only the
regionalist and ethnographic fiction of the time but also revives a
range of neglected materials, including the Zuni sketchbooks of
anthropologist Frank Hamilton Cushing; popular magazines such as
"Century Illustrated Monthly," which published Cushing's articles
alongside Henry James's; the debate between Joel Chandler Harris,
author/collector of the Uncle Remus folktales, and John Wesley
Powell, perhaps the most important American anthropologist of the
time; and Du Bois's polemics against the culture concept as it was
being developed in the early twentieth century.
Written with clarity and grace, "Before Cultures" will be of value
to students of American literature, history, and anthropology
alike.
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