Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction. The Domestication of Culture 3
5. 1. Modernism, Anthropology, Culture 15
6. 2. Dry Salvages: Spatiality, Nationalism, and the Invention of an “Anthropological” Culture 32
7. 3. The National Genius: Van Wyck Brooks, Edward Sapir, and the Problem of the Individual 66
8. 4. Terrains of Culture: Ruth Benedict, Waldo Frank, and the Spatialization of the Culture Concept 93
9. 5. The Culture of the Middle: Class, Taste, and Region in the 1930s Politics of Art 126
10. 6. “Beyond Relativity”: James Agee and Others, Toward the Cold War 158
11. 7. On Getting Rid of Culture: An Inconclusive Conclusion 193
12. Notes 215
13. Index 259