Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian Project in the Field

Name: Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian Project in the Field
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ISBN: 9780803221932

ISBN-10: 0803221932

ISBN-13: 9780803221932

Edition: 2003

Authors: Mick Gidley, Mick Gidley

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InEdward S. Curtis and the North American Indian Project in the Field, Mick Gidley provides an intimate and informative glimpse of Edward S. Curtis (1868–1952) and his associates as they undertook their work in the early decades of the twentieth century. Photographer Curtis embarked on an epic quest to document through word and picture the traditional cultures of Native Americans in the western United States—cultures that he believed were inevitably doomed. Curtis’s project became the largest anthropological enterprise undertaken in this country and yielded the monumental workThe North American Indian(1907–30). Its publication was a watershed in the anthropological study of Native Americans…

Book details

List price: $49.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 9/1/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 200
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English




Introductory



A national undertaking



Co-ordinates for a Project



Cracker Jack pictures



Trading with the Indians



Hustling the eminent



Diffident ethnology



Indians Incorporated



Adventure in the field



'The vanishing race' in sight and sound



Bronze in action



Representing the Indian