James E Snead

Relic Hunters

Archaeology and the Public in Nineteenth- Century America

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Produktbeschreibung

The first waves of settlers to enter the American heartland came across the remains of the people who had lived there before. Relic Hunters presents some of these stories-how local people responded to the ruins in their midst, collected relics, and explained them to each other.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 142mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780198736271
• ISBN-10: 0198736274
• Artikelnr.: 50428658

Autorenporträt

James E. Snead is Professor at California State University, Northridge. He completed his Ph.D. at UCLA in 1995: subsequent writing and research has been supported by numerous institutions and agencies, including the American Museum of Natural History, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the American Antiquarian Society, and the National Science Foundation.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: The Kentucky Mummy: Encountering the American Past
* 2: Antiquarian Dreams: Collections and Competition in the Early
Republic
* 3: "Too Poetical a Theory": Antiquarian Ambition, East and West
* 4: Antiquarian Entrepreneurs: Mounds and Meaning in the Jacksonian
Era
* 5: "These Places Know him no more": Surveys, Panoramas, and the
Ancient American Landscape
* 6: Idol Pursuits: Artifacts and Authority after the Civil War
* 7: Mementos of the Prehistoric Races: Antiquarians and Archaeologists
in the Centennial Decade
* 8: "Lost by Being Found": The Public and the Material Past in the
19th Century United States