Author: United States National MuseumPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 944
Book Description
Report Upon the Condition and Progress of the U.S. National Museum During the Year Ending June 30 ...
Author: United States National MuseumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 944
Book Description
Report Upon the Condition and Progress of the U. S. National Museum During the Year Ending June 30, 1888
Author: G. Brouw GoodeReport Upon the Condition and and Progress of the U.S. National Museum During the Year Ending June 30, 1888
Author: George Brown GoodeReport Upon the Condition and Progress of the U.S. National Museum, 1887/88
Author: G. Brown GoodeReport on the Progress and Condition of the U.S. National Museum for the Year Ending June 30 ...
Author: United States National MuseumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Report of the United States National Museum Under the Direction of the Smithsonian Institution for the Year ...
Author: United States National MuseumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description
Report Upon the Condition and and Progress of the U.S. National Museum During the Year Ending June 30, 1888
Author: George Brown GoodeReport of the United States National Museum ...
Author: United States National MuseumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 890
Book Description
An Asian Frontier
Author: Robert OppenheimPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803288832
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
In the nineteenth century the predominant focus of American anthropology centered on the native peoples of North America, and most anthropologists would argue that Korea during this period was hardly a cultural area of great anthropological interest. However, this perspective underestimates Korea as a significant object of concern for American anthropology during the period from 1882 to 1945—otherwise a turbulent, transitional period in Korea’s history. An Asian Frontier focuses on the dialogue between the American anthropological tradition and Korea, from Korea’s first treaty with the United States to the end of World War II, with the goal of rereading anthropology’s history and theoretical development through its Pacific frontier. Drawing on notebooks and personal correspondence as well as the publications of anthropologists of the day, Robert Oppenheim shows how and why Korea became an important object of study—with, for instance, more published about Korea in the pages of American Anthropologist before 1900 than would be seen for decades after. Oppenheim chronicles the actions of American collectors, Korean mediators, and metropolitan curators who first created Korean anthropological exhibitions for the public. He moves on to examine anthropologists—such as Aleš Hrdlicka, Walter Hough, Stewart Culin, Frederick Starr, and Frank Hamilton Cushing—who fit Korea into frameworks of evolution, culture, and race even as they engaged questions of imperialism that were raised by Japan’s colonization of the country. In tracing the development of American anthropology’s understanding of Korea, Oppenheim discloses the legacy present in our ongoing understanding of Korea and of anthropology’s past.
Nature's Mirror
Author: Mary Anne AndreiPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022673045X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
It may be surprising to us now, but the taxidermists who filled the museums, zoos, and aquaria of the twentieth century were also among the first to become aware of the devastating effects of careless human interaction with the natural world. Witnessing firsthand the decimation caused by hide hunters, commercial feather collectors, whalers, big game hunters, and poachers, these museum taxidermists recognized the existential threat to critically endangered species and the urgent need to protect them. The compelling exhibits they created—as well as the scientific field work, popular writing, and lobbying they undertook—established a vital leadership role in the early conservation movement for American museums that persists to this day. Through their individual research expeditions and collective efforts to arouse demand for environmental protections, this remarkable cohort—including William T. Hornaday, Carl E. Akeley, and several lesser-known colleagues—created our popular understanding of the animal world and its fragile habitats. For generations of museum visitors, they turned the glass of an exhibition case into a window on nature—and a mirror in which to reflect on our responsibility for its conservation.