A laboratory for anthropology
Subtitle: science and romanticism in the American Southwest, 1846-1930
By: Don Fowler.
Contributors: University of Arizona. Southwest Center.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press; Univ of New Mexico Pr
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 497
Subjects: Anthropology -- Southwest, New -- History.; Ethnological expeditions -- Southwest, New -- History.; Indians of North America -- Southwest, New -- Public opinion.; Anthropology in popular culture -- Southwest, New.; Indians in popular culture -- Southwest, New.; Indians of North America -- Southwest, New -- Public opinion.; Public opinion -- Southwest, New.; Southwest, New -- Discovery and exploration.; Southwest, New -- Description and travel.
Description: "This history tells the story of an idea, "The Southwest," through the development of American anthropology and archaeology. For eighty years following the end of the Mexican-American War, anthropology more than any other discipline described the people, culture, and land of the American Southwest to cultural tastemakers and consumers on the East Coast.

Digging deeply into primary public and private historical records, the author uses biographical vignettes to recreate the men and women who pioneered American anthropology and archaeology in the Southwest and explores institutions such as the Smithsonian, University of Pennsylvania Museum, School of American Research, and American Museum of Natural History that influenced southwestern research agenda, published results, and exhibited artifacts. Equally influential in this popular movement were the "Yearners" - novelists, poets, painters, photographers, and others - such as Alice Corbin, Oliver La Farge, Mabel Dodge Luhan, and Laura Adams Armer whose literature and art incorporated southwestern ethnography, sought the essence of the Indian and Hispano world, and substantially shaped the cultural impression of "The Southwest" to the American public.

Fowler brings this history to a close on the eve of the New Deal, which dramatically restructured the practice of anthropology and archaeology in the United States."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 412-469) and index.
"University of Arizona Southwest Center book"--T.p. verso.
"Published in cooperation with the University of Arizona Southwest Center."
Table of contents: title: Documenting the Southwest, 1540-1846; title: The topographical engineers in the Southwest; title: Legends and ruins, 1846-1859; title: Army ethnographic observations, 1846-1860; title: The great surveys; title: The Bureau of Ethnology : organizing anthropological research in America; title: The Bureau and the Southwest; title: Cushing, Matthews, Bourke, and compatriots; title: Washington Matthews; title: Bourke, Keam, and Stephen; title: The Mindeleff Brothers; title: The Bureau after Powell; title: The Hemenway Expedition; title: Jesse Walter Fewkes : from ichthyologist to ethnologist; title: Bandelier, Bancroft, and Bolton; title: The Wetherills and Nordenskiold; title: World's fairs, museums, and modern anthropology; title: Universities, museums, and anthropology; title: Building a new American anthropology; title: The western scholar-entrepreneurs; title: Building a new American anthropology; title: Byron Cummings; title: Edgar Lee Hewett; title: A "new archaeology" in the Southwest; title: Expanding the new archaeology; title: A.V. Kidder and Southwestern archaeology; title: Ethnography in the Southwest; title: Inventing the Southwest, 1890-1930; title: Literary and pictorial ethnography; title: New institutions, new directions; title: Epilogue.