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The place of stone : Dighton Rock and the erasure of America's indigenous past
- Title
- The place of stone : Dighton Rock and the erasure of America's indigenous past / Douglas Hunter.
- Author
- Hunter, Doug, 1959-
- Publication
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 17-10111 | Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 |
Details
- Description
- 324 pages : illustrations, map; 25 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-308) and index.
- Contents
- A lost Portuguese explorer's American boulder -- First impressions and first arrivals: colonists encounter Dighton Rock -- Altogether ignorant: denying an indigenous provenance and constructing gothicism -- Multiple migrations: esotericism, Beringia, and Native Americans as Tartar hordes -- Stones of power: Edward Augustus Kendall's esoteric case for Dighton Rock's indigeneity -- Colonization's new epistemology: American archaeology and the road to the Trail of Tears -- Vinland imagined: the Norsemen and the gothicists claim Dighton Rock -- Shingwauk's reading: Dighton Rock and Henry Rowe Schoolcraft's troubled ethnology -- Reversing Dighton Rock's polarity: Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, the American Ethnological Society, and the Grave Creek Stone -- Meaningless scribblings: Edmund Burke Delabarre, lazy Indians, and the Corte-Real theory -- American place-making: Dighton Rock as a Portuguese relic -- The stone's place: Dighton Rock Museum and narratives of power.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-10111
- ISBN
- 9781469634401
- 1469634406
- LCCN
- 2016051985
- OCLC
- 963230993
- Author
- Hunter, Doug, 1959- author.
- Title
- The place of stone : Dighton Rock and the erasure of America's indigenous past / Douglas Hunter.
- Publisher
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-308) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-10111