- Description
- 1 online resource (324 pages) : illustrations, map.
- Uniform Title
- Place of stone (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Place of stone (Online)
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-308) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2016051985
- OCLC
- ssj0001839323
- Author
Hunter, Doug, 1959-
- Title
The place of stone [electronic resource] : Dighton Rock and the erasure of America's indigenous past / Douglas Hunter.
- Imprint
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-308) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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