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Anthropology unmasked : museums, science, and politics in New York City
- Title
- Anthropology unmasked : museums, science, and politics in New York City / Stanley A. Freed.
- Author
- Freed, Stanley A.
- Publication
- Wilmington, Ohio : Orange Frazer Press, c2012.
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| Status | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | v. 2 | Text | Use in library | IRH 13-4069 v. 2 | Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | v. 1 | Text | Use in library | IRH 13-4069 v. 1 | Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 |
Details
- Description
- 2 vol. : ill. (some col.), col. maps; 26 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 992-1025) and index.
- Contents
- V. 1. The Putnam-Boas era. A natural history museum would be a good thing for the city. P.T. Barnum's American Museum ; The Paleozoic Museum ; The Lyceum of Natural History ; The founding of the American Museum of Natural History ; The building on Manhattan Square -- Morris Ketchum Jesup : "The heart, brain, and soul of the American Museum of Natural History." Morris Ketchum Jesup ; Scientific research ; Franz Boas ; Collections purchased in the early years of the Department of Anthropology ; George Thornton Emmons ; Frederick Starr and James Terry -- An unbeatable anthropological team. Frederic Ward Putnam ; The world's Columbian Exposition ; Putnam, Boas, and the founding of the Field Museum ; The American Museum hires Putnam as head of the Department of Anthropology ; The hiring of Boas ; Putnam leaves the AMNH and Boas takes over as departmental head ; The heritage of Boas and Putnam -- American anthropology's greatest expedition : the Jesup North Pacific Expedition. Planning the expedition ; Competition between Boas and Dorsey ; Harlan I. Smith ; George Hunt ; Hunt's arrest and trial for participating in a Hamatsa ceremony ; Collecting from graves and the interpretation of skulls ; Bruno Oetteking ; Smith's personal relations with Boas and his later career ; Gerard Fowke ; Livingston Farrand ; Kulturkreise diffusionist theory -- Launching the Jesup Expedition : Spences Bridge and beyond. James Teit ; From Spences Bridge to Bella Coola ; Franz Boas ; The Jacobsen Brothers ; John Reed Swanton ; Charles Newcombe ; Swanton's disenchantment and later career -- Here nothing is cheap except death which you can have in this country at special bargain rates. Recruiting personnel ; Lev Iakovlevich Shternberg ; Berthold Laufer ; Laufer's fieldwork and later career ; Fowke's fieldwork and later career -- "A different planet, completely alien to Earth, a block ice cast out into space." Recruitment of Jochelson and Bogoras ; Waldemar Ilich Jochelson ; Waldemar Germanovich Bogoras ; The other members of the East Siberian Team ; Bogoras's fieldwork ; Jochelson's fieldwork -- Exhibition, science, and Boas's resignation. Collections and exhibitions ; American Indians north of Mexico and the Eskimo ; Northwest Coast Indian ethnographic collections and exhibition hall ; Plains Indian ethnographic collections and exhibition hall ; Southwest Indian archaeological and ethnographic collections and exhibition hall ; Eskimo ethnographic collections and exhibition hall ; Eastern Woodlands ethnographic collections and exhibition hall ; Mexican and Central American collections and exhibition hall ; South American collections and the Hall of South American Peoples ; Biological collections and the Hall of Human Biology and Evolution ; African collections and the African Exhibition Hall ; Asian collections and the Asian Exhibition Hall ; Pacific collections and the Margaret Mead Hall of Pacific Peoples ; Boas's resignation
- V. 2. The Wissler years. Clark Wissler and Plains Indian ethnology. Biographical notes : the early years ; Wissler at Columbia ; Wissler at the American Museum of Natural History ; Wissler and Pliny E. Goddard ; Wissler at Yale ; Wissler's legacy ; Wissler's theoretical contributions ; Fieldwork ; Wissler and D.C. Duvall ; Plains Indian ethnography ; Alfred L. Kroeber ; Robert H. Lowie -- Archaeological research in the Southwest : Pueblo Bonito and the Aztec Ruin. Pueblo Benito and the Hyde Expedition ; George Hubbard Pepper ; Pepper's monograph ; The AMNH and the University of Colorado collaborate ; Earl Halstead Morris ; The Aztec Ruin ; Tree-ring dating, or dendrochronology ; The Aztec Ruin National Monument -- Archaeological research : the Southwest Nels C. Nelson. Nels Christian Nelson ; Nelson in the Southwest ; Nelson in Europe ; Nelson back in the Southwest ; Nelson at Mammoth Cave ; Nelson at Jacobs Cavern, Missouri ; Nelson at Shell Mounds in Florida ; Nelson in East Asia -- The Archer M. Huntington Survey and Southwestern Indian ethnology. Herbert Joseph Spinden and the Rio Grande pueblos ; A.L. Kroeber, Leslie Spier and the Zuni Pueblo ; Robert H. Lowie at Hopi ; Pliny Earle Goddard and the nomadic tribes ; Carl Sofus Lumholtz -- From Mexico to Alaska. Archaeology in Mesoamerica ; George Clapp Vaillant ; Gordon Frederick Ekholm ; The Trenton problem ; The Arctic ; Junius Bouton Bird ; James Alfred Ford ; Froelich Gladstone Rainey ; The Crocker Land Expedition ; The eastern United States ; Alanson Buck Skinner ; James Ford in the Southeast -- South America. Charles Williams Mead ; Ronald Leroy Olson ; Wendell Clark Bennett ; Junius Bird in South America ; James Ford in South America ; Harry S. Tschopik, Jr. -- Margaret Mead and Colin Turnbull stood apart. Margaret Mead ; Mead and the AMNH ; The Mead Report ; Colin MacMillan Turnbull ; Turnbull and the AMNH ; The Turnbull-Ford conflict -- Physical, or biological, anthropology. Louis Robert Sullivan ; Sullivan at the AMNH ; Harry Lionel Shapiro ; Shapiro at the AMNH ; Clark Wissler's physical anthropology.
- Call Number
- IRH 13-4069
- ISBN
- 9781933197838 (v. 1 : alk. paper)
- 1933197838 (v. 1 : alk. paper)
- 9781933197845 (alk. paper)
- 1933197846 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2011010632
- OCLC
- 707726494
- Author
- Freed, Stanley A.
- Title
- Anthropology unmasked : museums, science, and politics in New York City / Stanley A. Freed.
- Imprint
- Wilmington, Ohio : Orange Frazer Press, c2012.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 992-1025) and index.
- Research Call Number
- IRH 13-4069