Table of Contents

PrefacePermissions AcknowledgmentsIntroduction3Ch. 1Teddy Bear Patriarchy: Taxidermy in the Garden of Eden, New York City, 1908-193649Ch. 2Cultural Feminism versus Post-Structuralism: The Identity Crisis in Feminist Theory96Ch. 3The Exhibitionary Complex123Ch. 4Structures, Habitus, Power: Basis for a Theory of Symbolic Power155Ch. 5Two Lectures200Ch. 6After the Masses222Ch. 7Family, Education, Photography236Ch. 8Authority, (White) Power and the (Black) Critic; It's All Greek to Me247Ch. 9Women, Class and Sexual Differences in the 1830s and 1840s: Some Reflections on the Writing of a Feminist History269Ch. 10Nations, Publics, and Political Cultures: Placing Habermas in the Nineteenth Century297Ch. 11The Prose of Counter-Insurgency336Ch. 12Theory in Anthropology since the Sixties372Ch. 13Cosmologies of Capitalism: The Trans-Pacific Sector of "The World System"412Ch. 14Living to Tell: Madonna's Resurrection of the Fleshly459Ch. 15Ritual and Resistance: Subversion as a Social Fact483Ch. 16The Circulation of Social Energy504Ch. 17Cultural Studies: Two Paradigms520Ch. 18The Born-Again Telescandals539Ch. 19Secrets of Success in Postmodern Society557Ch. 20Selections from Marxism and Literature585Notes on the Contributors609Index613

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Nicholas B. Dirks is Professor of Anthropology and History, Geoff Eley is Professor of History, and Sherry B. Ortner is Professor of Anthropology and Women's Studies, all at the University of Michigan.

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