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The 1904 anthropology days and Olympic games sport, race, and American imperialism

Title
The 1904 anthropology days and Olympic games [electronic resource] : sport, race, and American imperialism / edited by Susan Brownell.
Publication
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2008.

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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
  • Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.)
  • Olympic Games 1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.)
  • Sports > Anthropological aspects > United States
  • Indians of North America > Exhibitions
  • Indians of North America > Public opinion
  • Ethnology > United States
  • Imperialism
  • United States > Ethnic relations
  • United States > Race relations
  • United States > History
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.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Brownell, Susan.
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