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The place of stone

Dighton Rock and the erasure of America's indigenous past

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Dighton Rock and the erasure of America's indigenous past

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English
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324

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The place of stone: Dighton Rock and the erasure of America's indigenous past
2017, The University of North Carolina Press
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Table of Contents

A lost Portuguese explorer's American boulder
First impressions and first arrivals: colonists encounter Dighton Rock
Altogether ignorant: denying an indigenous provenance and constructing gothicism
Multiple migrations: esotericism, Beringia, and Native Americans as Tartar hordes
Stones of power: Edward Augustus Kendall's esoteric case for Dighton Rock's indigeneity
Colonization's new epistemology: American archaeology and the road to the Trail of Tears
Vinland imagined: the Norsemen and the gothicists claim Dighton Rock
Shingwauk's reading: Dighton Rock and Henry Rowe Schoolcraft's troubled ethnology
Reversing Dighton Rock's polarity: Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, the American Ethnological Society, and the Grave Creek Stone
Meaningless scribblings: Edmund Burke Delabarre, lazy Indians, and the Corte-Real theory
American place-making: Dighton Rock as a Portuguese relic
The stone's place: Dighton Rock Museum and narratives of power.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-308) and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
974.4/85
Library of Congress
F74.D45 H86 2017, F74.D45H86 2017

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Pagination
324 pages
Number of pages
324

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Open Library
OL26935249M
Internet Archive
placeofstonedigh0000hunt
ISBN 10
1469634406
ISBN 13
9781469634401
LCCN
2016051985
OCLC/WorldCat
963230993

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