1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990005259090403321

Autore

Colloque sur l'esclavage : <1971

Titolo

Actes du Colloque 1971 sur l'esclavage

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paris : Les Belles Lettres, 1972

Descrizione fisica

267 p. ; 24 cm

Collana

Annales littéraires de l'Université de Besançon ; 6

Disciplina

306.362

Locazione

FLFBC

Collocazione

306.3 CONV BESANÇON 1971

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791423503321

Titolo

Philadelphia and the development of Americanist archaeology [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Don D. Fowler and David R. Wilcox

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2003

ISBN

0-8173-8463-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (271 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

FowlerDon D. <1936->

WilcoxDavid R. <1944->

Disciplina

974.8/01

974.801

974.811

Soggetti

Anthropology - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia - History

Archaeology - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia - History

Archaeologists - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia - Biography

Archaeology - United States - History

Indians of North America - Antiquities

Philadelphia (Pa.) Intellectual life Congresses

United States Antiquities Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese



Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers of the 3rd Gordon R. Willey Symposium on the History of American Archaeology, held in Philadelphia, Pa. in 2000.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-230) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Drab doves take flight : the dilemmas of earl Americanist archaeology in Philadelphia / Curtis M. Hinsley -- Toward consensus on the scope of archaeology : Daniel Garrison Brinton and the view from Philadelphia / Regna Darnell -- Unsung visionary : Sara Yorke Stevenson and the development of archaeology in Philadelphia / Elin C. Danien and Elinor M. King -- In the heat of controversy : C.C. Abott, the American Paleolithic, and the University Museum / David J. Meltzer -- Restoring authenticity : Judging Frank Hamilton Cushing's veracity / David R. Wilcox -- Clarence Bloomfield Moore : a Philadelphia archaeologist in the southeastern United States / Lawrence E. Aten and Jerald T. Milanich -- Lucy L.W. Wilson, Ph.D. : an eastern educator and the southwestern Pueblos / Frances Joan Mathien -- The second largest city in the English-speaking world : John L. Cotter and the historical archaeology of Philadelphia / Robert L. Schuyler -- Archaeology, Philadelphia, and understanding nine-teenth century American culture / Steven Conn -- Philarivarium / Alice Beck Keyhoe.

Sommario/riassunto

For two and a half centuries, Philadelphians have been actively involved in archaeological research. In particular, three vital and venerable cultural institutions-the American Philosophical Society (founded 1743), the Academy of Natural Sciences (founded 1812), and the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania (founded 1893)-have nurtured the "systematic study of antiquities."   The ten essays in this volume focus on Philadelphians who were concerned with Americanist archaeology, or the "archaeology of the New World." As Europeans, and later, Euroamericans, spre