- Additional Authors
- Brownell, Susan.
- Description
- 1 online resource (xviii, 471 p.) : ill., map.
- Series Statement
- Critical studies in the history of anthropology
- Uniform Title
- 1904 anthropology days and Olympic games (Online)
- Critical studies in the history of anthropology.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 415-449) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Introduction : bodies before Boas, sport before the laughter left / Susan Brownell -- A "special Olympics" : testing racial strength and endurance at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition / Nancy J. Parezo -- The "physical value" of races and nations : anthropology and athletics at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition / Mark Dyreson -- Pierre de Coubertin's concepts of race, nation, and civilization / Otto J. Schantz -- Anthropology days, the construction of whiteness, and American imperialism in the Philippines / Gerald R. Gems -- "From savagery to civic organization" : the nonparticipation of Canadian Indians in the anthropology days of the 1904 St. Louis Olympic Games / Christine M. O'Bonsawin -- "Leav(ing) the white(s) - far behind them" : the girls from Fort Shaw (Montana) Indian School, basketball champions of the 1904 World's Fair / Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith -- Germans and others at the "American games" : problems of national and international representation at the 1904 Olympics / Suzuko Mousel Knott -- Greece and the 1904 "American" Olympics / Alexander Kitroeff -- From the anthropology days to the anthropological Olympics / John Bale -- Olympic anthropology days and the progress of exclusion : toward an anthropology of democracy / Henning Eichberg -- The growth of scientific standards from anthropology days to present days / Jonathan Marks -- Afterword : back to the future / Susan Brownell.
- LCCN
- 2008021832
- OCLC
- ssj0000093042
- Title
The 1904 anthropology days and Olympic games [electronic resource] : sport, race, and American imperialism / edited by Susan Brownell.
- Imprint
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2008.
- Series
Critical studies in the history of anthropology
Critical studies in the history of anthropology.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 415-449) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Brownell, Susan.