Occidentalism: images of the West / edited by James G. Carrier

Oxford New York: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press, 1995. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: x, 268 pages; 22 cm. Contents:Cargoism and occidentalism / Lamont Lindstrom -- The Kabyle and the French: occidentalism in Bourdieu's Theory of practice / Deborah Reed-Danahay -- Maussian occidentalism: gift and commodity systems / James G. Carrier -- Occidentalism as a cottage industry: representing the autochthonous 'other' in British and Irish rural studies / Jane Nadel-Klein -- Imaging the other in Japanese advertising campaigns / Millie R. Creighton -- Duelling currencies in East New Britain: the construction of shell money as national cultural property / Deborah B. Gewertz and Frederick K. Errington --The Colonial, the Imperial, and the creation of the 'European' in Southern Africa / Robert Thornton -- Hellenism and occidentalism: the permutations of performance in Greek bourgeois identity / Michael Herzfeld -- Occidentalism in the East: the uses of the West in the politics and anthropology of South Asia / Jonathan Spencer. Subjects: Ethnology United States. Civilization, Western Philosophy. Americans Public opinion.