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American Antiquities
- Revisiting the Origins of American Archaeology
Af: Terry A. Barnhart
Engelsk Hardback
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American Antiquities
- Revisiting the Origins of American Archaeology
Af: Terry A. Barnhart
Engelsk Hardback
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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, was an untidy organic process that emerged from the intellectual tradition of antiquarianism. It then closely allied itself with the natural sciences throughout the nineteenth century, especially with geology and the debate about the origins and identity of the indigenous mound-building cultures of the eastern United States.
 
In his reexamination of the eclectic interests and equally varied settings of nascent American archaeology, Terry A. Barnhart exposes several fundamental, deeply embedded historiographical problems within the secondary literature relating to the nineteenth-century debate about “Mound Builders” and “American Indians.” Some issues are perceptual, others contextual, and still others are basic errors of fact. Adding to the problem are semantic and contextual considerations arising from the problematic use of the term “race” as a synonym for tribe, nation, and race proper—a concept and construct that does not in all instances translate into current understanding and usage. American Antiquities uses this early discourse on the mounds to reframe perennial anthropological problems relating to human origins and antiquity in North America.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
594
ISBN-13:
9780803268425
Indbinding:
Hardback
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ISBN-10:
0803268424
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Udg. Dato:
1 nov 2015
Længde:
44mm
Bredde:
276mm
Højde:
165mm
Forlag:
University of Nebraska Press
Oplagsdato:
1 nov 2015
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