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Declared Defective : Native Americans, Eugenics, and the Myth of Nam Hollow /

Declared Defective is the anthropological history of an outcaste community and a critical reevaluation of The Nam Family, written in 1912 by Arthur Estabrook and Charles Davenport, leaders of the early twentieth-century eugenics movement. Based on their investigations of an obscure rural enclave in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jarvenpa, Robert (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
Colección:Critical studies in the history of anthropology.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Native Americans and eugenics
  • Border wars and the origins of the Van Guilders
  • A "new" homeland and the cradle of Guilder Hollow
  • From pioneers to outcastes
  • The eugenicists arrive
  • Deconstructing the Nam and the hidden Native Americans
  • Demonizing the marginalized poor.