Anthropology Goes to the Fair

J. Parezo Nancy, D. Fowler Don

Description

World’s fairs and industrial expositions constituted a phenomenally successful popular culture movement during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In addition to the newest technological innovations, each exposition showcased commercial and cultural exhibits, entertainment concessions, national and corporate displays of wealth, and indigenous peoples from the colonial empires of the host country.

 

As scientists claiming specialized knowledge about indigenous peoples, especially American Indians, anthropologists used expositions to promote their quest for professional status and authority. Anthropology Goes to the Fair takes readers through the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition to see how anthropology, as conceptualized by W J McGee, the first president of the American Anthropological Association, showcased itself through programs, static displays, and living exhibits for millions of people  “to show each half of the world how the other half lives.” More than two thousand Native peoples negotiated and portrayed their own agendas on this world stage. The reader will see how anthropology itself was changed in the process.

Sujets

• Histoire
• USA
• United States of America
• Indigenous peoples
• 20th century
• History of the Americas
• États-Unis

Informations

• Publié par: Nebraska
• Date de parution: 01 septembre 2007
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780803213944
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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Anthropology Goes to the Fair

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Series Editors Regna Darnell

Stephen O. Murray

Anthropology  Goes to the Fair The 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition  U N I V E R S I T Y O F N E B R A S K A P R E S S  L I N C O L N A N D L O N D O N NA NCY J. PA R EZO & DON D. FOW LER

© by the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Parezo, Nancy J.  Anthropology goes to the fair : theLouisiana Purchase Exposition / Nancy J. Parezo and Don D. Fowler.  p. cm. (Critical studies in the history of anthropology)  Includes bibliographical references and index.  ----(cloth : alk. paper) Purchase Exposition (. Louisiana : Saint Louis, Mo.) . Indians of North America—Exhibitions. in popular culture—History.. Indians of North America—Public opinion.. Indians opinion—United States.. Public zoos—United States.. Human . United States—Ethnic relations. . United States—Race relations. States—History.. United W. J.,. McGee, –. I. Fowler, Don D.,– II. Title. .. .—dc 

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Contents

List of Illustrations  Acknowledgments Series Editors’ Introduction Setting the Stage for St. Louis Prologue: . Organizing the Louisiana Purchase Exposition  McGee and the Science of Man. WJ  the Anthropology Department. Planning  and Model Indian School  the “Races of Mankind”. Assembling  Worthy Indians. Presenting  . The Model Indian School  . The Philippine Reservation  Anthropology Villages. The  . The Polyglot Pike  . Being a Living Exhibit  . In the Anthropology Building  Performances. Anthropological  the Fair and Going Home. Celebrating  . The Experiences of an Exposition Epilogue: Passing into History and Moving On Appendix: McGee’s Racial Classification Schemes Appendix: Native Participants Notes References  Index

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Illustrations “Overlord of the Savage World” David R. Francis, Plan map of exposition Transportation parade in Grand Basin Government Building beyond Sunken Garden Frederick W. Lehmann, Frederick J. V. Skiff William J. McGee, William Henry Holmes, ca. “The Missing Link,” a Negrito from Bataan Samuel M. McCowan, George A. Dorsey with Colojo, a Tehuelche participant Frederick Starr, Ground plan of the ethnological exhibits Pawnee earth lodge Arapaho family Chief Geronimo Navajo hogan and Arapaho tipis Mon-e-do-wats, “Mrs. Spirit Seeker” Model Indian School exhibit O’odham basket weavers, Effa Rhodes and Amy Enos Indian School student, Mary Shelby Indian School Band, Lem Wiley, conductor Bontoc Igorot men Bontoc Igorot men dancing in Western attire “Is it beef trust . . .” cartoon by Chopin, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Colony of Samal Moros, Philippine Reservation Visayan Village, Philippine Reservation Tehuelche family Batwa Pygmies in front of the Manufacturing Building Batwa Pygmies perform a beheading pantomime William J. McGee, Edward J. Cushman, and Cocopa Indians Bob Harris, a Kwakiutl from Fort Rupert, British Columbia Chief Atlieu, Nootka Tobin’s Cliff Dweller’s exhibit Fake Hopi Snake Dance, in Tobin’s Cliff Dweller’s concession Inuit exhibit, Eskimaux concession Old Jerusalem concession Acoma Indian pottery sellers Cheyenne men at Indian School “Rubbernecking” cartoon by Chopin, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Navajos visit Igorot Village Destiny of the Red Man, A. A. Weinman, front and side views A Step toward Civilization, Solon Borglum Bureau of American Ethnology ceramic design exhibit Haida totem poles at Alaska exhibit Models of Mesoamerican temple and stelae Archery competition, Anthropology Days competition Javelin competition, Anthropology Days competition

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Acknowledgments

Conducting a study as complex as this, in which the data are scattered in li- braries and archives across the country, has meant that we have met and relied on countless people over the years as we visited the many institutions listed in the index. We were aided by many curators, archivists, librarians, secretaries, registrars, and students, and we deeply appreciate the time and effort they ex- pended on our behalf. We would especially like to thank those at the Missouri Historical Society, the National Anthropological Archives, the Library of Con- gress, the University of Chicago Library, the Oklahoma Historical Society, the Omaha Public Library, and the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, who spent hours guiding us through their collections, including Jerice Barrios, J. Gail Carmanda, Martha Clevenger, Nina Cummings, Paula Fleming, Jean Gosebrink, Eadie Hedlin, Sara Heitshu, Robert Leopold, Becky Malinsky, Vic- toria Monks, Steve Nash, Duane Sneddeker, Jeff Todd, and Andrew Walker. Special thanks to Patricia Afable and Mary Ellen Morbeck for providing and verifying information, respectively, on Filipinos and physical anthropology. Our sincere thanks to those individuals who over the past fifteen years helped us locate the rare document, newspaper, and photograph, as well as to photo- copy and organize data. Especially we would like to thank former and current students Rebecca Greeling, Aviva Rubin, John Troutman, and Fritz Vandover, who spent many hours of labor. Thanks also to Charles Sternberg for drafting the maps. The National Endowment for the Humanities, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, and the Quincentenary Fund of the University of Arizona provided funding for this project.

We would also like to thank our friends and loved ones who provided sup- port for this project, especially our spouses, Richard Ahlstrom and Catherine Fowler, who never complained about our time-warp involvement withand St. Louis and who listened to our stories about those who went to the fair. Re- becca Allen, Sydel Silverman, Regna Darnell, and David Wilcox read drafts and offered many useful suggestions to improve the manuscript. Karen Brown,