Cannibal Culture: Art, Appropriation, and the Commodification of Difference

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 Difference
	Salvaging 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 Marginality
	Ar 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