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- 020 __ |a 9780803268425 : |c CNY518.26
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- 050 00 |a CC101.U6 |b B37 2015
- 100 1_ |a Barnhart, Terry A., |d 1952-
- 245 10 |a American antiquities : |b revisiting the origins of American archaeology / |c Terry A. Barnhart
- 260 __ |a Lincoln : |b University of Nebraska Press, |c c2015
- 300 __ |a xviii, 572 pages ; |c 24 cm
- 336 __ |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent
- 337 __ |a unmediated |b n |2 rdamedia
- 338 __ |a volume |b nc |2 rdacarrier
- 490 1_ |a Critical studies in the history of anthropology
- 504 __ |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 477-560) and index
- 505 0_ |a Prologue: historicizing the origins of American archaeology -- American antiquities: a grand theme for speculation -- Rediscovering the mounds: scientific enquiry and the westward movement -- Antiquaries, ideas, and institutions: more testimony from the mounds -- A dialectical discourse: constructing the mound builder paradigm -- American archaeology: an infant science emerges -- Origin, era, and region: an expanding field of archaeological enquiry -- Archaeology as anthropology: the coming of the curators and professors
- 520 __ |a 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, 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 setting 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. -- from dust jacket
- 650 _0 |a Archaeology |z United States |x History
- 650 _0 |a Archaeologists |z United States |x Historiography
- 651 _0 |a United States |x Antiquities
- 830 _0 |a Critical studies in the history of anthropology