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Racial Science in Hitler's New Europe, 1938-1945
Av Anton Weiss-Wendt, Rory Yeomans
Häftad, 2013
558 kr
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In Racial Science in Hitler's New Europe, 1938–1945, international scholars examine the theories of race that informed the legal, political, and social policies aimed against ethnic minorities in Nazi-dominated Europe. The essays explicate how racial science, preexisting racist sentiments, and …
1904 Anthropology Days and Olympic Games
Sport, Race, and American Imperialism
Inbunden, 2008
627 kr
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One of the more problematic sport spectacles in American history took place at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, which included the third modern Olympic Games. Associated with the Games was a curious event known as Anthropology Days organized by William J. McGee and James Sullivan, at that time …
Lev Shternberg
Anthropologist, Russian Socialist, Jewish Activist
Inbunden, 2009
785 kr
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This intellectual biography of Lev Shternberg (1861–1927) illuminates the development of professional anthropology in late imperial and early Soviet Russia. Shortly after the formation of the Soviet Union the government initiated a detailed ethnographic survey of the country's peoples. Lev …
Meskwaki and Anthropologists
Action Anthropology Reconsidered
Inbunden, 2008
739 kr
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The Meskwaki and Anthropologists illuminates how the University of Chicago's innovative Action Anthropology program of ethnographic fieldwork affected the Meskwaki Indians of Iowa. From 1948 to 1958, the Meskwaki community near Tama, Iowa, became effectively a testing ground for a new method of …
Excavating Nauvoo
The Mormons and the Rise of Historical Archaeology in America
Inbunden, 2010
587 kr
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This detailed study of the excavation and restoration of the city of Nauvoo, Illinois, reveals the roots of historical archaeology. In the 1960s, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sponsored an archaeology program to authentically restore the city of Nauvoo, which was founded along the …
Looking Through Taiwan
American Anthropologists' Collusion with Ethnic Domination
Av Keelung Hong, Stephen O. Murray
Häftad, 2008
218 kr
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Anthropologists have long sought to extricate their work from the policies and agendas of those who dominate—and often oppress—their native subjects. Looking through Taiwan is an uncompromising look at a troubling chapter in American anthropology that reveals what happens when anthropologists fail …
Ruth Landes
A Life in Anthropology
Av Sally Cole
Häftad, 2007
351 kr
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Ruth Landes (1908–91) is now recognized as a pioneer in the study of race and gender relations. Ahead of her time in many respects, Landes worked with issues that defined the central debates in the discipline at the dawn of the twenty-first century. In Ruth Landes, Sally Cole reconsiders Landes's …
Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge
Häftad, 2007
351 kr
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Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge is the first full-scale biography of the trailblazing anthropologist of African and African American cultures. Born into a world of racial hierarchy, Melville J. Herskovits (1895–1963) employed physical anthropology and ethnography to …
Leslie a. White
Evolution and Revolution in Anthropology
Häftad, 2007
351 kr
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Few figures in modern American anthropology have been more controversial or influential than Leslie A. White (1900–1975). Between the early 1940s and mid-1960s, White's work was widely discussed, and he was among the most frequently cited American anthropologists in the world. After writing several …
Contributions to Ojibwe Studies
Essays, 1934-1972
Av A. Irving Hallowell, Jennifer S. H. Brown m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
558 kr
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From 1930 to 1940, A. Irving Hallowell, a professor of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, made repeated summer fieldwork visits to Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba, and to the Ojibwe community at Berens River on the lake's east side. He traveled up the Berens River several times to other Ojibwe …
Looking Through Taiwan
American Anthropologists' Collusion with Ethnic Domination
Av Keelung Hong, Stephen O. Murray
Inbunden, 2005
322 kr
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Anthropologists have long sought to extricate their work from the policies and agendas of those who dominate—and often oppress—their native subjects. Looking through Taiwan is an uncompromising look at a troubling chapter in American anthropology that reveals what happens when anthropologists fail …
Shaping of American Ethnography
The Wilkes Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
Inbunden, 2001
514 kr
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In August of 1838 the United States Exploring Expedition set sail from Norfolk Navy Yard with six ships and more than seven hundred crewmen, including technicians and scientists. Over the course of four years the expedition made stops on the east and west coasts of South America; visited Australia, …
Ephraim George Squier and the Development of American Anthropology
Häftad, 2009
351 kr
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Ephraim George Squier and the Development of American Anthropology is an intellectual biography of Ephraim Squier (1821–88) and his contributions to the development of the nascent disciplines of archaeology and anthropology. During his career, which spanned the years 1845–77, Squier consistently …
Anthropology Goes to the Fair
The 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition
Av Nancy J. Parezo, Don D. Fowler
Häftad, 2009
331 kr
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World's fairs and industrial expositions constituted a phenomenally successful popular culture movement during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In addition to the newest technological innovations, each exposition showcased commercial and cultural exhibits, entertainment concessions, national …
Rolling in Ditches with Shamans
Jaime De Angulo and the Professionalization of American Anthropology
Inbunden, 2005
683 kr
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Rolling in Ditches with Shamans charts American anthropology in the 1920s through the life and work of one of the amateur scholars of the time, Jaime de Angulo (1887–1950). Although he earned a medical degree, de Angulo chose to live on an isolated ranch in Big Sur, California, where he …
Anthropology Goes to the Fair
The 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition
Av Nancy J. Parezo, Don D. Fowler
Inbunden, 2007
627 kr
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World's fairs and industrial expositions constituted a phenomenally successful popular culture movement during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In addition to the newest technological innovations, each exposition showcased commercial and cultural exhibits, entertainment concessions, national …
Homo Imperii
A History of Physical Anthropology in Russia
Inbunden, 2013
965 kr
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It is widely assumed that the "nonclassical" nature of the Russian empire and its equally "nonclassical" modernity made Russian intellectuals immune to the racial obsessions of Western Europe and the United States. Homo Imperii corrects this perception by offering the first scholarly history of …
Cultural Negotiations
The Role of Women in the Founding of Americanist Archaeology
Inbunden, 2013
877 kr
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This meticulously researched reference work documents the role of women who contributed to the development of Americanist archaeology from 1865 to 1940. Between the Civil War and World War II, many women went into anthropology and archaeology, fields that, at the beginning of this period, welcomed …
American Anthropology and Company
Historical Explorations
Inbunden, 2013
852 kr
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In American Anthropology and Company, linguist and sociologist Stephen O. Murray explores the connections between anthropology, linguistics, sociology, psychology, and history, in broad-ranging essays on the history of anthropology and allied disciplines. On subjects ranging from Native American …
Before Boas
The Genesis of Ethnography and Ethnology in the German Enlightenment
Inbunden, 2015
852 kr
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The history of anthropology has been written from multiple viewpoints, often from perspectives of gender, nationality, theory, or politics. Before Boas delves deeper into issues concerning anthropology’s academic origins to present a groundbreaking study that reveals how ethnography and ethnology …
Cora Du Bois
Anthropologist, Diplomat, Agent
Inbunden, 2015
481 kr
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Although Cora Du Bois began her life in the early twentieth century as a lonely and awkward girl, her intellect and curiosity propelled her into a remarkable life as an anthropologist and diplomat in the vanguard of social and academic change.Du Bois studied with Franz Boas, a founder of American …
Visionary Observers
Anthropological Inquiry and Education
Av Jill B. R. Cherneff, Eve Hochwald
Häftad, 2006
331 kr
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Visionary Observers explores the relationship between anthropology and public policy, examining the careers of nine twentieth-century American anthropologists who made important contributions to debates about race, ethnicity, socialization, and education. Included are Franz Boas, the founder of …
Invisible Genealogies
A History of Americanist Anthropology
Häftad, 2001
303 kr
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Invisible Genealogies is a landmark reinterpretation of the history of anthropology in North America. During the past two decades, theorizing by many American anthropologists has called for an "experimental moment" grounded in explicit self-reflexive scholarship and experimentation with alternate …
American Antiquities
Revisiting the Origins of American Archaeology
Inbunden, 2015
877 kr
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Writing the history of American archaeology, especially concerning eighteenth- and nineteenth-century arguments, is not always as straightforward as it might seem. Archaeology's trajectory from an avocation to a semi-profession to a specialized profession, rather than being a linear progression, …
Cora Du Bois
Anthropologist, Diplomat, Agent
E-bok, 2015
410 kr
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Although Cora Du Bois began her life in the early twentieth century as a lonely and awkward girl, her intellect and curiosity propelled her into a remarkable life as an anthropologist and diplomat in the vanguard of social and academic change.Du Bois studied with Franz Boas, a founder of American …
Before Boas
The Genesis of Ethnography and Ethnology in the German Enlightenment
E-bok, 2015
408 kr
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The history of anthropology has been written from multiple viewpoints, often from perspectives of gender, nationality, theory, or politics. Before Boas delves deeper into issues concerning anthropology’s academic origins to present a groundbreaking study that reveals how ethnography and ethnology …
Irregular Connections
A History of Anthropology and Sexuality
Av Andrew P. Lyons, Harriet D. Lyons
Häftad, 2004
376 kr
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Irregular Connections traces the anthropological study of sex from the eighteenth century to the present, focusing primarily on social and cultural anthropology and the work done by researchers in North America and Great Britain. Andrew P. and Harriet D. Lyons argue that the sexuality of those whom …
American Antiquities
Revisiting the Origins of American Archaeology
E-bok, 2015
773 kr
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Writing the history of American archaeology, especially concerning eighteenth- and nineteenth-century arguments, is not always as straightforward as it might seem. Archaeology's trajectory from an avocation to a semi-profession to a specialized profession, rather than being a linear progression, …
Theodore E. White and the Development of Zooarchaeology in North America
Av R. Lee Lyman
Inbunden, 2016
645 kr
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Theodore E. White and the Development of Zooarchaeology in North America illuminates the researcher and his lasting contribution to a field that has largely ignored him in its history. The few brief histories of North American zooarchaeology suggest that Paul W. Parmalee, John E. Guilday, Elizabeth …
Asian Frontier
American Anthropology and Korea, 1882–1945
Inbunden, 2016
877 kr
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In the nineteenth century the predominant focus of American anthropology centered on the native peoples of North America, and most anthropologists would argue that Korea during this period was hardly a cultural area of great anthropological interest. However, this perspective underestimates Korea …
