A literary history of America / by Barrett Wendell

• Record Nr.: UNINA990004903470403321
• Autore: Wendell, Barrett <1855-1931>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : Scribner's sons, 1931
• Descrizione fisica: XI, 574 p. ; 21 cm
• Disciplina: 810.9
• Locazione: FLFBC
• Collocazione: 810.9 WEN 1
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

American antiquities : revisiting the origins of American archaeology / / Terry A. Barnhart

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910797847103321
• Autore: Barnhart Terry A. <1952->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lincoln, [Nebraska] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 0-8032-8429-2; 0-8032-8431-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (595 p.)
• Collana: Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
• Disciplina: 973.1
• Soggetti: Archaeology - United States - History; Archaeologists - United States - Historiography; United States Antiquities
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Prologue: historicizing the origins of American archaeology -- American antiquities: a grand theme for speculation -- Rediscovering the mounds: scientific enquiry and the westward movement -- Antiquaries, ideas, and institutions: more testimony from the mounds -- A dialectical discourse: constructing the mound builder paradigm -- American archaeology: an infant science emerges -- Origin, era, and region: an expanding field of archaeological enquiry -- Archaeology as anthropology: the coming of the curators and professors.