{"product_id":"gone-primitive-savage-intellects-modern-lives-9780226808321","title":"Gone Primitive: Savage Intellects, Modern Lives","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Marianna Torgovnick\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Semiotics \u0026amp; Theory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this acclaimed book, Torgovnick explores the obsessions, \u003cbr\u003efears, and longings that have produced Western views of the \u003cbr\u003eprimitive. Crossing an extraordinary range of fields \u003cbr\u003e(anthropology, psychology, literature, art, and popular \u003cbr\u003eculture), \u003ci\u003eGone Primitive\u003c\/i\u003e will engage not just \u003cbr\u003especialists but anyone who has ever worn Native American \u003cbr\u003ejewelry, thrilled to Indiana Jones, or considered buying an \u003cbr\u003eAfrican mask. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A superb book; and--in a way that goes beyond what \u003cbr\u003ebeing good as a book usually implies--it is a kind of gift to \u003cbr\u003eits own culture, a guide to the perplexed. It is lucid, \u003cbr\u003eusually fair, laced with a certain feminist mockery and \u003cbr\u003eanimated by some surprising sympathies.\"--Arthur C. Danto, \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"An impassioned exploration of the deep waters beneath Western primitivism. . . . Torgovnick's readings are deliberately, rewardingly provocative.\"--Scott L. Malcomson, \u003ci\u003eVoice Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47615128305815,"sku":"9780226808321","price":3353.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780226808321.webp?v=1775098228","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/gone-primitive-savage-intellects-modern-lives-9780226808321","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}