Author: J. C. NottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
Indigenous Races of the Earth
Author: Josiah Clark NottPublisher:
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Category : Acclimatization
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Indigenous Races of the Earth; or new chapters of ethnological inquiry; including monographs of on special departments of Philology, Iconography, Cranioscopy, Palaeontology, Pathology, Archaeology, comparative Geography and natural History: contributed by Alfr. Maury, Francis Pulszky and J. Aitken Meigs
Author: J. C. NottIndigenous Races of the Earth, Or, New Chapters of Ethnological Inquiry
Author: Louis-Ferdinand-Alfred MauryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Acclimatization
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Indigenous Races of the Earth; Or, New Chapters of Ethnological Inquiry; Including Monographs of Special Departments of Philology, Iconography ... and Natural History ...
Author: Louis-Ferdinand-Alfred MauryPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Report of the State Librarian
Author: Pennsylvania State LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Includes catalogs of accessions and special bibliographical supplements.
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Native Tongues
Author: Sean P. HarveyPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674745388
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Sean Harvey explores the morally entangled territory of language and race in this intellectual history of encounters between whites and Native Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Misunderstandings about the differences between European and indigenous American languages strongly influenced whites’ beliefs about the descent and capabilities of Native Americans, he shows. These beliefs would play an important role in the subjugation of Native peoples as the United States pursued its “manifest destiny” of westward expansion. Over time, the attempts of whites to communicate with Indians gave rise to theories linking language and race. Scholars maintained that language was a key marker of racial ancestry, inspiring conjectures about the structure of Native American vocal organs and the grammatical organization and inheritability of their languages. A racially inflected discourse of “savage languages” entered the American mainstream and shaped attitudes toward Native Americans, fatefully so when it came to questions of Indian sovereignty and justifications of their forcible removal and confinement to reservations. By the mid-nineteenth century, scientific efforts were under way to record the sounds and translate the concepts of Native American languages and to classify them into families. New discoveries by ethnologists and philologists revealed a degree of cultural divergence among speakers of related languages that was incompatible with prevailing notions of race. It became clear that language and race were not essentially connected. Yet theories of a linguistically shaped “Indian mind” continued to inform the U.S. government’s efforts to extinguish Native languages for years to come.
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