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The legacy of the art and cultural scientist Aby Warburg offers
many subjects for reassessment. Almost unknown until now are the
artifacts he collected on a journey through the southwest of the US
in 1895/96 and donated to the Museum fur Voelkerkunde in Hamburg
(today Museum am Rothenbaum). The results first unfolded in
Warburg's famous lecture on the "snake ritual" of the Hopi (1923).
Following Warburg's transdisciplinary approach, this publication
examines his guiding principles in assembling his collection as
well as his reading of Pueblo art and culture. It pays tribute to
the works and their artistic significance and sheds light on the
circumstances of acquisition in the sociopolitical environment of
the Pueblo communities of the time. The contemporary fascination
with the snake ritual is also a topic. Set against this are the
previously neglected perspectives and strategies of Pueblo leaders
to regain interpretive sovereignty over culturally sensitive
content and imagery.
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.
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.
The writings of the American West have long dealt with masculine
ideals. Well into the twentieth century, what little attention was
afforded to women typically reflected prescribed or stereotyped
roles, and the work of women scholars received less attention than
that of men. And yet the early twentieth century saw a host of
pioneering scholars who would not be ignored, erased, or
marginalized. The ten women intellectuals showcased in this volume
were pioneers in the writing of Indian-centered history, ethnology,
and folklore that incorporated the insights, voices, and
perspectives of American Indians. These authors not only produced
significant works that are still useful to modern-day scholars;
they also pioneered research methods and theoretical concepts that
helped lay the foundation for the new scholarship on western
history, American Indian studies, and ethnohistory. Noted scholars
have provided individual biographies describing the struggles and
contributions these foremothers made to the creation of late
twentieth-century scholarship: Annie Heloise Abel, Gertrude Simmons
Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa), Angie Debo, Ella Cara Deloria, Isabel T.
Kelly, Marjorie Ferguson Lambert, Dorothea Cross Leighton, Alice
Marriott, Mari Sandoz, and Ruth Underhill.
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