Relic hunters : archaeology and the public in nineteenth-century America
Bibliographie
- Auteurs : Snead James Elliott (1962-) ;
- Editeurs : Oxford Oxford University Press ;
- Date d'édition : 2018
- ISBN : 978-0-19-873627-1
- Sujets : Archéologie -- États-Unis 19e siècle, Archéologie et histoire, États-Unis -- Antiquités -- 19e siècle
- Comprend : Relic hunters, Relic hunters
- Langue(s) : Anglais
- Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xvii-301 p.), : Ill., jaquette ill. en coul., 23 cm
- Pays de publication : Royaume-Uni
- Collection (notice d'ensemble) : Oxford studies in the history of archaeology
Notes
Notes bibliogr. en fin de chapitre. Bibliogr. p. [253]-292. Index
Résumé
La 4e de jaquette indique : 'Relic Hunters is a study of the complex relationship between the people of 19th century America with the material antiquities of North America's indigenous past. As scholars struggled to explain their existence, farmers in Ohio were plowing up arrowheads, building their houses atop burial mounds, and developing their own ideas about antiquity. They experienced the new country as a 'place with history' reflected in material traces that became important touch points for scientific knowledge, but for American cultural identity as well.'