The place of stone
Subtitle: Dighton Rock and the erasure of America's indigenous past
By: Douglas Hunter
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9781469634401
Subjects: Petroglyphs; Historiography; Indians of North America; Government relations; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-308) and index.
Table of contents: title: A lost Portuguese explorer's American boulder; title: First impressions and first arrivals: colonists encounter Dighton Rock; title: Altogether ignorant: denying an indigenous provenance and constructing gothicism; title: Multiple migrations: esotericism, Beringia, and Native Americans as Tartar hordes; title: Stones of power: Edward Augustus Kendall's esoteric case for Dighton Rock's indigeneity; title: Colonization's new epistemology: American archaeology and the road to the Trail of Tears; title: Vinland imagined: the Norsemen and the gothicists claim Dighton Rock; title: Shingwauk's reading: Dighton Rock and Henry Rowe Schoolcraft's troubled ethnology; title: Reversing Dighton Rock's polarity: Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, the American Ethnological Society, and the Grave Creek Stone; title: Meaningless scribblings: Edmund Burke Delabarre, lazy Indians, and the Corte-Real theory; title: American place-making: Dighton Rock as a Portuguese relic; title: The stone's place: Dighton Rock Museum and narratives of power.