Zuni, Hopi, Copan

Early Anthropology at Harvard, 1890-1893
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-0-87365-915-4
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 259 mm, Gewicht: 1039 g

Zuni, Hopi, Copan: Early Anthropology at Harvard, 1890–1893 publishes one hundred letters from John Gundy Owens to Deborah Harker Stratton, currently held in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University. Owens was one of the first graduate students in anthropology at Harvard; his poignant letters to “Miss Debbie” trace a budding relationship of affection in late Victorian America and offer vivid, highly entertaining accounts of his fieldwork at Zuni pueblo in New Mexico, Hopi mesa villages in Arizona, and the Maya site of Copan in Honduras. Tragically, Owens died at age twenty-seven in Copan; Stratton never married and kept the letters until her own death, nearly fifty years later. Introductory essays by Curtis M. Hinsley, Louis A. Hieb, and Barbara W. Fash contextualize the annotated letters and shed new light on early anthropological training in the United States.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hinsley, Curtis M

Weitere Mitwirkende

Hieb, Louis A.

Fash, Barbara W.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker

Über Autor(innen)

Fash, Barbara W.
Barbara W. Fash is Director and Series Editor of the Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions Program at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University.

Hieb, Louis A.
Louis A. Hieb is former Director of the Center for Southwest Research at the University of New Mexico.

Hinsley, Curtis M
Curtis M. Hinsley is Regents’ Professor, Emeritus, of American History at Northern Arizona University.