"In Declared Defective: Native Americans, Eugenics, and the Myth of Nam Hollow, Robert Jarvenpa offers both an intriguing history of the mixed-race Native Americans named the "Nam," who originated from western New England, and a critical reevaluation of one of the earliest eugenics family studies, The Nam: A Study in Cacogenics, written in 1912 by the leading eugenicists Arthur H. Estabrook and Charles B. Davenport" --
"In Declared Defective: Native Americans, Eugenics, and the Myth of Nam Hollow, Robert Jarvenpa offers both an intriguing history of the mixed-race Native Americans named the "Nam," who originated from western New England, and a critical reevaluation of one of the earliest eugenics family studies, The Nam: A Study in Cacogenics, written in 1912 by the leading eugenicists Arthur H. Estabrook and Charles B. Davenport" --
Robert Jarvenpa is professor emeritus and former chair of the Department of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Albany and a research associate at the New York State Museum. He is the coauthor of Circumpolar Lives and Livelihood: A Comparative Ethnoarchaeology of Gender and Subsistence (Nebraska, 2006) and author of Northern Passage: Ethnography and Apprenticeship among the Subarctic Dene.
Inhaltsangabe
List of Illustrations List of Tables Series Editors’ Introduction Acknowledgments Introduction: The Menace in the Hollow 1. Native Americans and Eugenics 2. Border Wars and the Origins of the Van Guilders 3. A “New” Homeland and the Cradle of Guilder Hollow 4. From Pioneers to Outcastes 5. The Eugenicists Arrive 6. Deconstructing the Nam and the Hidden Native Americans 7. Demonizing the Marginalized Poor Conclusion: The Myth Unravels Notes Bibliography Index
List of Illustrations List of Tables Series Editors’ Introduction Acknowledgments Introduction: The Menace in the Hollow 1. Native Americans and Eugenics 2. Border Wars and the Origins of the Van Guilders 3. A “New” Homeland and the Cradle of Guilder Hollow 4. From Pioneers to Outcastes 5. The Eugenicists Arrive 6. Deconstructing the Nam and the Hidden Native Americans 7. Demonizing the Marginalized Poor Conclusion: The Myth Unravels Notes Bibliography Index
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