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The Making of Archaeology in the Americas

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An edition of Nature and Antiquities (2014)

Nature and Antiquities

The Making of Archaeology in the Americas

"Nature and Antiquities examines the relation between the natural sciences, anthropology, and archaeology in the Americas in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Taking the reader across the Americas from the Southern Cone to Canada, across the Andes, the Brazilian Amazon, Mesoamerica, and the United States, the book explores the early history of archaeology from a Pan-American perspective. The volume breaks new ground by entreating archaeologists to acknowledge the importance of ways of knowing that resulted from the study of nature in the history of archaeology. Some of the contributions to this volume trace the part conventions, practices, and concepts from natural history and the natural sciences played in the history and making of the discipline. Others set out to uncover, reassemble, or adjust our vision of collections that research historians of archaeology have disregarded or misrepresented--because their nineteenth-century makers would refuse to comply with today's disciplinary borders and study natural specimens and antiquities in conjunction, under the rubric of the territorial, the curious or the universal. Other contributions trace the sociopolitical implications of studying nature in conjunction with 'indigenous peoples' in the Americas--inquiring into what it meant and entailed to comprehend the inhabitants of the American continent in and through a state of nature"--

"Nature and Antiquities analyzes how the study of indigenous peoples was linked to the study of nature and natural sciences. Leading scholars break new ground and entreat archaeologists to acknowledge the importance of ways of knowing in the study of nature in the history of archaeology"--

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Nature and Antiquities: The Making of Archaeology in the Americas
Dec 04, 2014, University of Arizona Press
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Source title: Nature and Antiquities: The Making of Archaeology in the Americas

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Library of Congress
CC101.U6 N38 2014, CC101.U6N38 2014

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hardcover
Number of pages
256

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Open Library
OL27538853M
ISBN 10
0816531129
ISBN 13
9780816531127
LCCN
2014007786
OCLC/WorldCat
876351059
Amazon ID (ASIN)
0816531129

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