Download or read book Analecta Biographica a Handful of New England Portraits written by Walter Muir Whitehill and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Analecta Biographica a Handful of New England Portraits written by Walter Muir Whitehill and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Prehistory Personality and Place written by Jefferson Reid and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Emil Haury defined the ancient Mogollon in the 1930s as a culture distinct from their Ancestral Pueblo and Hohokam neighbors, he triggered a major intellectual controversy in the history of southwestern archaeology, centering on whether the Mogollon were truly a different culture or merely a “backwoods variant” of a better-known people. In this book, archaeologists Jefferson Reid and Stephanie Whittlesey tell the story of the remarkable individuals who discovered the Mogollon culture, fought to validate it, and eventually resolved the controversy. Reid and Whittlesey present the arguments and actions surrounding the Mogollon discovery, definition, and debate. Drawing on extensive interviews conducted with Haury before his death in 1992, they explore facets of the debate that scholars pursued at various times and places and how ultimately the New Archaeology shifted attention from the research questions of cultural affiliation and antiquity that had been at the heart of the controversy. In gathering the facts and anecdotes surrounding the debate, Reid and Whittlesey offer a compelling picture of an academician who was committed to understanding the unwritten past, who believed wholeheartedly in the techniques of scientific archaeology, and who used his influence to assist scholarship rather than to advance his own career. Prehistory, Personality, and Place depicts a real archaeologist practicing real archaeology, one that fashioned from potsherds and pit houses a true understanding of prehistoric peoples. But more than the chronicle of a controversy, it is a book about places and personalities: the role of place in shaping archaeologists’ intellect and personalities, as well as the unusual intersections of people and places that produced resolutions of some intractable problems in Southwest history.

Download or read book Celebrating a Century of the American Anthropological Association written by Regna Darnell and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the past century the American Anthropological Association (AAA) has borne witness to profound social, cultural, and technical changes, transformations that have affected anthropologists and the people they work with across the planet. In response to such global changes, anthropology continues to evolve into an increasingly complex and sophisticated discipline with a dynamic range of flourishing subfields. This volume contains the memorable stories of the seventy-seven men and women who have led the AAA during the past century. The list of the association's presidents reads like a roster of influential scholars from various specializations within anthropology. Their histories cumulatively reflect the trends in interpretive thought and fieldwork methodology that have emerged during the past ten decades. For each president the book provides a photograph and a biography replete with personal anecdotes, career highlights, and information about his or her contributions to the development of the discipline of anthropology. Important works by each president are listed separately in the back of the volume. An introduction by Regna Darnell and Frederic W. Gleach summarizes the first century of the AAA and contextualizes the individual stories.

Download or read book Analecta Biographica written by Walter Muir Whitehill and published by Peabody Museum of Salem. This book was released on 1969-06-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Guide to the Study of United States Imprints written by George Thomas Tanselle and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 1146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book New England written by David D. Hall and published by Hanover, NH : University Press of New England. This book was released on 1989 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Here George Washington Was Born written by Seth C. Bruggeman and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Here, George Washington Was Born, Seth C. Bruggeman examines the history of commemoration in the United States by focusing on the George Washington Birthplace National Monument in Virginia's Northern Neck, where contests of public memory have unfolded with particular vigor for nearly eighty years. Washington left the birthplace with his family at a young age and rarely returned. The house burned in 1779 and would likely have passed from memory but for George Washington Parke Custis, who erected a stone marker on the site in 1815, creating the first birthplace monument in America. Both Virginia and the U.S. War Department later commemorated the site, but neither matched the work of a Virginia ladies association that in 1923 resolved to build a replica of the home. The National Park Service permitted construction of the "replica house" until a shocking archeological discovery sparked protracted battles between the two organizations over the building's appearance, purpose, and claims to historical authenticity. Bruggeman sifts through years of correspondence, superintendent logs, and other park records to reconstruct delicate negotiations of power among a host of often unexpected claimants on Washington's memory. By paying close attention to costumes, furnishings, and other material culture, he reveals the centrality of race and gender in the construction of Washington's public memory and reminds us that national parks have not always welcomed all Americans. What's more, Bruggeman offers the story of Washington's birthplace as a cautionary tale about the perils and possibilities of public history by asking why we care about famous birthplaces at all.

Download or read book Report of the Director written by Peabody Museum of Salem and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Boston written by Rudolph Ruzicka and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 1975 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society written by Massachusetts Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Women Remembered written by Marion Tinling and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1986-08-02 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This was obviously a labor of love for the author. Libraries large and small will find it a major ready-reference source on historic women in America. Library Journal

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Download or read book Biography Index written by Bea Joseph and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines.

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