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The Place of Stone : Dighton Rock and the Erasure of America's Indigenous Past /
Claimed by many to be the most frequently documented artifact in American archeology, Dighton Rock is a forty-ton boulder covered in petroglyphs in southern Massachusetts. In this fascinating story rich in personalities and memorable characters, Douglas Hunter uses Dighton Rock to reveal the long, c...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2017]
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- A lost Portuguese explorer's American boulder
- First impressions and first arrivals: colonists encounter Dighton Rock
- Altogether ignorant: denying an indigenous provenance and constructing gothicism
- Multiple migrations: esotericism, Beringia, and Native Americans as Tartar hordes
- Stones of power: Edward Augustus Kendall's esoteric case for Dighton Rock's indigeneity
- Colonization's new epistemology: American archaeology and the road to the Trail of Tears
- Vinland imagined: the Norsemen and the gothicists claim Dighton Rock
- Shingwauk's reading: Dighton Rock and Henry Rowe Schoolcraft's troubled ethnology
- Reversing Dighton Rock's polarity: Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, the American Ethnological Society, and the Grave Creek Stone
- Meaningless scribblings: Edmund Burke Delabarre, lazy Indians, and the Corte-Real theory
- American place-making: Dighton Rock as a Portuguese relic
- The stone's place: Dighton Rock Museum and narratives of power.