Robert Jarvenpa

Gebundenes Buch

Declared Defective

Native Americans, Eugenics, and the Myth of Nam Hollow

Beschreibung

"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" --

Autor

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.  

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 159mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 521g
• ISBN-13: 9781496202000
• ISBN-10: 1496202007
• Artikelnr.: 50008795