Science Encounters the Indian, 1820-1880 The Early Years of American Ethnology

Name: Science Encounters the Indian, 1820-1880 The Early Years of American Ethnology
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ISBN: 9780806135717

ISBN-10: 0806135719

ISBN-13: 9780806135717

Edition: 1986

Authors: Robert E. Bieder

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Early nineteenth-century ethnologists viewed the American Indians through a prism of intellectual arguments inherited from European Enlightenment thinkers. From that perspective, the Indians were seen as an inferior race whose primitive existence stemmed from an adverse environment, and whose "progress" depended on the civilizing effects of education and an altered physical environment. The evolution away from that view, in the face of new physical evidence and changing cultural perceptions, is the theme of this in-depth study of five ethnologists whose research and writing paralleled the development of nineteenth-century ethnology in the United States. The five major figures were Albert…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 1986
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Publication date: 5/12/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English

Robert E. Bieder is Research Associate and Adjunct Professor at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, Indiana, USA. He is the author of many books and articles on North American natural history, folklore and ethnology.