Ephraim George Squier and the development of American anthropology / Terry A. Barnhart.
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
©2005.
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| Series: | Critical studies in the history of anthropology.
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: Ephraim George Squier and the history of American anthropology
- Literary ambitions : the genesis of an anthropologist
- In search of the mound builders : the Squier-Davis association
- Archaeology and the Smithsonian Institution : editing and publishing the Squier-Davis manuscript
- Interpreting the mound builders : the archaeology of Squier and Davis
- Revisiting the mounds : the Iroquois and the archaeology of western New York
- The burden of proof : American Indian traditions and the Walam Olum
- Idols and Indians : the archaeology and ethnology of Nicaragua
- The mind of man : the serpent symbol and the reciprocal principles of nature
- Nahua nations and migrations : the archaeology and ethnology of Honduras and San Salvador
- Ancient Peru : an indigenous civilization
- The science of men and nations : Ephraim George Squier and the American school of ethnology
- Epilogue : Insanity and the "eclipse of genius"