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Anthropology Goes to the Fair - The 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition (Hardcover)
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Anthropology Goes to the Fair - The 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition (Hardcover)
Series: Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
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World's fairs and industrial expositions constituted a phenomenally
successful popular culture movement during the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries. In addition to the newest technological
innovations, each exposition showcased commercial and cultural
exhibits, entertainment concessions, national and corporate
displays of wealth, and indigenous peoples from the colonial
empires of the host country. As scientists claiming specialized
knowledge about indigenous peoples, especially American Indians,
anthropologists used expositions to promote their quest for
professional status and authority. Anthropology Goes to the Fair
takes readers through the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition to see
how anthropology, as conceptualized by W J McGee, the first
president of the American Anthropological Association, showcased
itself through programs, static displays, and living exhibits for
millions of people "to show each half of the world how the other
half lives." More than two thousand Native peoples negotiated and
portrayed their own agendas on this world stage. The reader will
see how anthropology itself was changed in the process. Nancy J.
Parezo is a professor of American Indian studies and anthropology
at the University of Arizona and the curator of ethnology at the
Arizona State Museum. She is the editor of Hidden Scholars: Women
Anthropologists and the Native American Southwest. Don D. Fowler is
a professor of anthropology, emeritus, at the University of Nevada,
Reno. He is the author of A Laboratory for Anthropology: Science
and Romanticism in the American Southwest, 1846-1930.
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