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"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" --

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"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" --
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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.