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American antiquities : revisiting the origins of American archaeology /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
2015.
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| Colección: | Critical studies in the history of anthropology.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.