Anthropology, history, and American Indians : essays in honor of William Curtis Sturtevant

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Anthropology, history, and American Indians : essays in honor of William Curtis Sturtevant / William L. Merrill and Ives Goddard.

Sturtevant, William C. (Added Author). Merrill, William L. (Added Author). Goddard, Ives, 1941- (Added Author).

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Physical Description: ix, 357 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 2002.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:: Sibling review / Harriet Sturtevant Shapiro -- William Curtis Sturtevant, anthropologist / William L. Merrill -- The writings of William C. Sturtevant / compiled by William L. Merrill -- Sleepwalking through the history of anthropology: anthropologists on home ground / Laura Nader -- Charlatan, scientist, or poet? Frank Hamilton Cushing's search for a language of experiential knowledge / Curtis M. Hinsley -- George A. Dorsey and the development of Plains Indian anthropology / Raymond J. DeMallie and Douglas R. Parks -- American Indian migrations: a neglected dimension of paleodemography / Dean R. Snow -- From ethnohistory to anthropological history / Shepard Krech III -- Editing a Cambridge history in a postmodern context / Bruce G. Trigger -- A historian among the anthropologists / Wilcomb E. Washburn -- "A very great harvest of souls": Timucua Indians and the impact of European colonization / Jerald T. Milanich -- The interstices of literacy: books and writings and their use in Native American southern New England / Kathleen J. Bragdon -- From manifest destiny to the melting pot: the life and times of Charlotte Mitchell, Wampanoag / William S. Simmons -- Indian imagery and the development of tourism in the Southwest / JoAllyn Archambault -- Hawaiian art: from sacred symbol to tourist icon to ethnic identity marker / Adrienne L. Kaeppler -- The Neets'aii Gwich'in in the twentieth century / Jack Campisi -- Classifying North American Indian languages before 1850 / Elisabeth Tooker -- Origins of museum anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution and beyond / William W. Fitzhugh -- Collections as currency / Jane MacLaren Walsh.

The creation of anthropological archives: a California case study / Ira Jacknis -- Starring the anthropologists in the American men of science / David J. Meltzer -- At the cutting edge: patchwork and the process of artistic innovation / Sally Price -- European motifs in protohistoric Iroquois art / Edmund Carpenter -- Quilled knife cases from northeastern North America / Christian F. Feest -- Pabookowaih unmasked / William N. Fenton and Donald B. Smith -- The linguistic writings of Alfred Kiyana on Fox (Meskwaki) / Ives Goddard -- The Munich Chukchi collection / Jean-Loup Rousselot -- Totemism reconsidered / Raymond D. Fogelson and Robert A. Brightman -- Coyote, acorns, salmon, and quartz: verse analysis of a Karok myth / Dell Hymes -- The distribution and habits of the ringed seal and Central Eskimo settlement patterns / David Damas -- Species transformations in northern Mexico: explorations in Rarámuri zoology / William L. Merrill -- Quenching homologous thirsts / Sidney W. Mintz.