A Laboratory for Anthropology

by Fowler, Don D.

• ISBN13: 9780826320360
• ISBN10: 0826320368
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-12-01
• Publisher: Univ of New Mexico Pr

Author Biography

Don D. Fowler is the Mamie Kleberg Professor of Historic Preservation and Anthropology at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Table of Contents

Preface	viii
Prologue: The Land and the People	1	(14)
Introduction: Origins of American Anthropology	15	(16)
Documenting the Southwest, 1540-1846	31	(7)
The Topographical Engineers in the Southwest	38	(12)
Legends and Ruins, 1846-1859	50	(21)
Army Ethnographic Observations, 1846-1860	71	(8)
The Great Surveys	79	(13)
The Bureau of Ethnology: Organizing Anthropological Research in America	92	(12)
The Bureau and the Southwest	104	(13)
Cushing, Matthews, Bourke, and Compatriots	117	(11)
Washington Matthews	128	(5)
Bourke, Keam, and Stephen	133	(7)
The Mindeleff Brothers	140	(4)
The Bureau after Powell	144	(4)
The Hemenway Expedition	148	(13)
Jesse Walter Fewkes: From Ichthyologist to Ethnologist	161	(11)
Bandelier, Bancroft, and Bolton	172	(15)
The Wetherills and Nordenskiold	187	(16)
World's Fairs, Museums, and Modern Anthropology	203	(17)
Universities, Museums, and Anthropology	220	(13)
Building a New American Anthropology	233	(14)
The Western Scholar-Entrepreneurs	247	(9)
Byron Cummings	256	(5)
Edgar Lee Hewett	261	(14)
A ``New Archaeology'' in the Southwest	275	(19)
Expanding the New Archaeology	294	(19)
A. V. Kidder and Southwestern Archaeology	313	(8)
Ethnography in the Southwest	321	(22)
Inventing the Southwest, 1890-1930	343	(14)
Literary and Pictorial Ethnography	357	(9)
New Institutions, New Directions	366	(10)
Epilogue	376	(5)
Abbreviations	381	(1)
Notes	382	(30)
Bibliography	412	(58)
Index	470