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Skull wars : Kennewick Man, archaeology, and the battle for Native American identity /

"In Skull Wars, archaeologist David Hurst Thomas traces the 500-year roots of the Kennewick Man controversy. From Thomas Jefferson's invention of scientific archaeology to the brutal massacres in which skulls of Indian warriors were sent east to build museum collections; from the strange f...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Thomas, David Hurst
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, N.Y. : Basic Books, ©2000.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Foreword / Vine Deloria, Jr.
  • Names and Images
  • Columbus, Arawaks, and Caribs: The Power to Name
  • A Vanishing American Icon
  • Nineteenth-Century Scientists
  • The First American Archaeologist
  • A Short History of Scientific Racism in America
  • Darwin and the Disappearing American Indian
  • The Great American Skull Wars
  • The Anthropology of Assimilation
  • The Anthropologist as Hero
  • Collecting Your Fossils Alive
  • Is "Real History" Embedded in Oral Tradition?
  • The Perilous Idea of Race
  • Deep American History
  • Origin Myths From Mainstream America
  • The Smithsonian Takes on All Comers
  • Where are All the Native American Archaeologists?
  • Breakthrough at Folsom
  • Busting the Clovis Barrier
  • What Modern Archaeologists Think About the Earliest Americans
  • The Indians Refuse to Vanish
  • "Be an Indian and Keep Cool"
  • An Indian New Deal: From Absolute Deprivation to Mere Poverty
  • The Red Power of Vine Deloria, Jr.
  • Legislating the Skull Wars
  • Bridging the Chasm
  • Tribal Affiliation and Sovereignty
  • Speaking of Oral Tradition
  • An Archaeology Without Alienation.