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Coming of Age in Chicago explores a watershed moment in American
anthropology, when an unprecedented number of historians and
anthropologists of all subfields gathered on the 1893 Chicago
Columbian Exposition fairgrounds, drawn together by the fair’s
focus on Indigenous peoples. Participants included people making a
living with their research, sporadic backyard diggers, religiously
motivated researchers, and a small group who sought a
“scientific” understanding of the lifeways of Indigenous
peoples. At the fair they set the foundation for anthropological
inquiry and redefined the field. At the same time, the American
public became aware, through their own experiences at the fair, of
a global humanity, with reactions that ranged from revulsion to
curiosity, tolerance, and kindness. Curtis M. Hinsley and David R.
Wilcox combine primary historical texts, modern essays, and rarely
seen images from the period to create a volume essential for
understanding the significance of this event. These texts explore
the networking of thinkers, planners, dreamers, schemers, and
scholars who interacted in a variety of venues to lay the
groundwork for museums, academic departments, and expeditions.
These new relationships helped shape the profession and the
trajectory of the discipline, and they still resonate more than a
century later.
Coming of Age in Chicago explores a watershed moment in American
anthropology, when an unprecedented number of historians and
anthropologists of all subfields gathered on the 1893 Chicago
Columbian Exposition fairgrounds, drawn together by the fair's
focus on indigenous peoples. Participants included people making a
living with their research, sporadic backyard diggers, religiously
motivated researchers, and a small group who sought a "scientific"
understanding of the lifeways of indigenous peoples. At the fair
they set the foundation for anthropological inquiry and redefined
the field. At the same time, the American public became aware,
through their own experiences at the fair, of a global humanity,
with reactions that ranged from revulsion to curiosity, tolerance,
and kindness. Curtis M. Hinsley and David R. Wilcox combine primary
historical texts, modern essays, and rarely seen images from the
period to create a volume essential for understanding the
significance of this event. These texts explore the networking of
thinkers, planners, dreamers, schemers, and scholars who interacted
in a variety of venues to lay the groundwork for museums, academic
departments, and expeditions. These new relationships helped shape
the profession and the trajectory of the discipline, and they still
resonate more than a century later.
In the fall of 1886, Boston philanthropist Mary Tileston Hemenway
sponsored an archaeological expedition to the American Southwest.
Directed by anthropologist Frank Hamilton Cushing, the Hemenway
Expedition sought to trace the ancestors of the Zunis with an eye
toward establishing a museum for the study of American Indians. In
the third year of fieldwork, Hemenway's overseeing board fired
Cushing based on doubts concerning his physical health and mental
stability, and much of the expedition's work went unpublished.
Today, however, it is recognized as a critical base for research
into southwestern prehistory. This second installment of a
multivolume work on the Hemenway Expedition focuses on a report
written by Cushing--at the request of the expedition's board of
directors--to serve as vindication for the expedition, the worst
personal and professional failure of his life. Reconstructed
between 1891 and 1893 by Cushing from field notes, diaries,
jottings, and memories, it provides an account of the origins and
early months of the expedition. Hidden in several archives for a
century, the Itinerary is assembled and presented here for the
first time. A vivid account of the first attempt at scientific
excavatons in the Southwest, Cushing's Itinerary is both an
exciting tale of travel through the region and an intellectual
adventure story that sheds important light on the human past at
Hohokam sites in Arizona's Salt River Valley, where Cushing sought
to prove his hypothesis concerning the ancestral "Lost Ones" of the
Zunis. It initiates the construction of an ethnological approach to
archaeology, which drew upon an unprecedented knowledge of a
southwestern Pueblo tribe and use of that knowledge in the
interpretation of archaeological sites. -
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