Coming of Age in Chicago (eBook, ePUB)

The 1893 World's Fair and the Coalescence of American Anthropology
Redaktion: Hinsley, Curtis M.

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Produktbeschreibung

Coming of Age in Chicago explores a watershed moment in American anthropology, when an unprecedented number of historians and anthropologists of all subfields gathered on the 1893 Chicago Columbian Exposition fairgrounds, drawn together by the fair's focus on indigenous peoples. Participants included people making a living with their research, sporadic backyard diggers, religiously motivated researchers, and a small group who sought a "scientific" understanding of the lifeways of indigenous peoples. At the fair they set the foundation for anthropological inquiry and redefined the field. At the same time, the American public became aware, through their own experiences at the fair, of a global humanity, with reactions that ranged from revulsion to curiosity, tolerance, and kindness. Curtis M. Hinsley and David R. Wilcox combine primary historical texts, modern essays, and rarely seen images from the period to create a volume essential for understanding the significance of this event. These texts explore the networking of thinkers, planners, dreamers, schemers, and scholars who interacted in a variety of venues to lay the groundwork for museums, academic departments, and expeditions. These new relationships helped shape the profession and the trajectory of the discipline, and they still resonate more than a century later.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 616
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780803284470
• Artikelnr.: 44763098

Autorenporträt

Curtis M. Hinsley is Regents’ Professor Emeritus of History and Comparative Cultural Studies at Northern Arizona University. He is the coauthor (with David R. Wilcox) of The Lost Itinerary of Frank Hamilton Cushing and The Southwest in the American Imagination: The Writings of Sylvester Baxter, 1881–1889. David R. Wilcox (1944–2022) was the former head of the anthropology department at the Museum of Northern Arizona and was an adjunct professor at Northern Arizona University. He is the coeditor of Zuni Origins: Toward a New Synthesis of Southwestern Archaeology.  

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations    
List of Tables    
Introduction: The Chicago Fair and American Anthropology in 1893    
Curtis M. Hinsley and David R. Wilcox
Abbreviations    
Essay 1. Anthropology as Education and Entertainment: Frederic Ward Putnam
at the World’s Fair     
Curtis M. Hinsley
Document A. Franz Boas, “Ethnology at the Exposition” (1893)    
Document B. Frederic Ward Putnam, “The Columbus Memorial Museum: Address to
the Commercial Club of Chicago” (1891)    
Document C. “Man and His Works: Ethnological Exhibit at the Fair” (1893)  
 
Essay 2. Ambiguous Legacy: Daniel Garrison Brinton at the International
Congress of Anthropology     
Curtis M. Hinsley
Appendix: Analysis of Registered Members of the International Congress of
Anthropology, World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893    
David R. Wilcox
Document D. William Henry Holmes, “The World’s Fair Congress of
Anthropology” (1893)     
Essay 3. Anthropology in a Changing America: Interpreting the Chicago
“Triumph” of Frank Hamilton Cushing    
David R. Wilcox
Document E. Excerpts from the Diary of Frank Hamilton Cushing at the
World’s Fair (June 16–September 12, 1893)    
Document F. Monthly Report of Mr. Frank Hamilton Cushing (September 1893)  
 
Document G. “The Pueblos at Home” (September 1894)
A Visual Interlude: Popular Images of Anthropology and Its Subjects at the
Fair    
Curtis M. Hinsley
Essay 4. Refracting Images: Anthropological Display at the Chicago World’s
Fair, 1893    
Ira Jacknis
Essay 5. Relic Hunters in the White City: Artifacts, Authority, and
Ambition at the World’s Columbian Exposition     
James E. Snead
Document H. Cushing’s Analysis of the Hazzard Cliff Dweller Collection
(1895)     
Document I. Warren King Moorehead, “The Ancient Man: The Anthropological
Exhibit at the World’s Fair” (June 22, 1893)    
Essay 6. Patrons, Popularizers, and Professionals: The Institutional
Setting of Late Nineteenth-Century Anthropology in Chicago     
Donald McVicker
Document J. “Heir of the Big Fair: Field Columbian Museum Opened” (1894)  
 
Essay 7. Going National: American Anthropology Successfully Redefines
Itself as an Accepted Academic Domain    
David R. Wilcox
Appendix: Comparison of Primary Contributors to the American Anthropologist
, 1888–1925    
David R. Wilcox
Document K. Daniel Garrison Brinton, “The Aims of Anthropology” (1895)     
Document L. Franz Boas, “The Limitations of the Comparative Method of
Anthropology” (1896)     
Afterword: The Ironies of the Fair, the Uncertainties of Anthropology    
Curtis M. Hinsley
Acknowledgments    
Bibliography    
Contributors    
Index