Author: Franz Boas
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Languages : en
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Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History
Author: Franz Boas
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Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History
Author: American Museum of Natural History
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 944
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 944
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Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History
Author: Harlan I. Smith
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Languages : en
Pages : 820
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Languages : en
Pages : 820
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Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History
Author: American Museum of Natural History
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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The Conard Fissure
Author: Barnum Brown
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Category : Cave animals
Languages : en
Pages : 98
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Category : Cave animals
Languages : en
Pages : 98
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Things New and Strange
Author: G. Wayne Clough
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820355232
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Things New and Strange chronicles a research quest undertaken by G. Wayne Clough, the first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution born in the South. Soon after retiring from the Smithsonian, Clough decided to see what the Smithsonian collections could tell him about South Georgia, where he had spent most of his childhood in the 1940s and 1950s. The investigations that followed, which began as something of a quixotic scavenger hunt, expanded as Clough discovered that the collections had many more objects and documents from South Georgia than he had imagined. These objects illustrate important aspects of southern culture and history and also inspire reflections about how South Georgia has changed over time. Clough’s discoveries—animal, plant, fossil, and rock specimens, along with cultural artifacts and works of art—not only serve as a springboard for reflections about the region and its history, they also bring Clough’s own memories of his boyhood in Douglas, Georgia, back to life. Clough interweaves memories of his own experiences, such as hair-raising escapes from poisonous snakes and selling boiled peanuts for a nickel a bag at the annual auction of the tobacco crop, with anecdotes from family lore, which launches an exploration of his forebears and their place in South Georgia history. In following his engaging and personal narrative, we learn how nonspecialists can use museum archives and how family, community, and natural history are intertwined.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820355232
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Things New and Strange chronicles a research quest undertaken by G. Wayne Clough, the first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution born in the South. Soon after retiring from the Smithsonian, Clough decided to see what the Smithsonian collections could tell him about South Georgia, where he had spent most of his childhood in the 1940s and 1950s. The investigations that followed, which began as something of a quixotic scavenger hunt, expanded as Clough discovered that the collections had many more objects and documents from South Georgia than he had imagined. These objects illustrate important aspects of southern culture and history and also inspire reflections about how South Georgia has changed over time. Clough’s discoveries—animal, plant, fossil, and rock specimens, along with cultural artifacts and works of art—not only serve as a springboard for reflections about the region and its history, they also bring Clough’s own memories of his boyhood in Douglas, Georgia, back to life. Clough interweaves memories of his own experiences, such as hair-raising escapes from poisonous snakes and selling boiled peanuts for a nickel a bag at the annual auction of the tobacco crop, with anecdotes from family lore, which launches an exploration of his forebears and their place in South Georgia history. In following his engaging and personal narrative, we learn how nonspecialists can use museum archives and how family, community, and natural history are intertwined.
The Museum at the End of the World
Author: Alexia Bloch
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812237993
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Anthropologists Alexia Bloch and Laurel Kendall tell the story of their journey retracing the nineteenth-century Jesup North Pacific Expedition to the remote easternmost extension of Siberia and the northwest coast of North America.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812237993
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Anthropologists Alexia Bloch and Laurel Kendall tell the story of their journey retracing the nineteenth-century Jesup North Pacific Expedition to the remote easternmost extension of Siberia and the northwest coast of North America.
Recollections and Private Memoirs of Washington
Author: George Washington Parke Custis
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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The Bungling Host
Author: Daniel Clément
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 149620087X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 569
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"Daniel Clément examines the "Bungling Host" tale known in a multitude of indigenous cultures in North America and beyond. In this groundbreaking work he reveals fuller meaning to these stories than previously recognized and underscores the limits of structuralism in understanding them"--
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 149620087X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 569
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"Daniel Clément examines the "Bungling Host" tale known in a multitude of indigenous cultures in North America and beyond. In this groundbreaking work he reveals fuller meaning to these stories than previously recognized and underscores the limits of structuralism in understanding them"--
The View from Afar
Author: Claude Lévi-Strauss
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226474748
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This collection touches on a wide range of anthropological issues, including family and marriage, myths, and rites, the environment and its representation, and constraint and freedom. The essays encompass more than forty years of analysis and constrain arguments that are as relevant today as they were thirty years ago. "Hardly a field remains untouched—sociobiology, linguistics, botany, genetics, psychiatry, esthetics, ecology, politics, neuroscience, education, morality, psychology. . . . It's all breathtaking and alarming, some of it wonderful, some of it ridiculous. . . . At times the experience is exhilarating."—Richard A. Shweder, New York Times Book Review
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226474748
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This collection touches on a wide range of anthropological issues, including family and marriage, myths, and rites, the environment and its representation, and constraint and freedom. The essays encompass more than forty years of analysis and constrain arguments that are as relevant today as they were thirty years ago. "Hardly a field remains untouched—sociobiology, linguistics, botany, genetics, psychiatry, esthetics, ecology, politics, neuroscience, education, morality, psychology. . . . It's all breathtaking and alarming, some of it wonderful, some of it ridiculous. . . . At times the experience is exhilarating."—Richard A. Shweder, New York Times Book Review