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Title:

The 1904 anthropology days and Olympic games : sport, race, and American imperialism / edited by Susan Brownell.

Publisher:

University of Nebraska Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

xviii, 471 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Louisiana Purchase Exposition--(1904 :--Saint Louis, Mo.)
Olympic Games--(3rd :--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.

Other Authors:

Brownell, Susan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 415-449) and index.

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.

Series:

Critical studies in the history of anthropology

ISBN:

0803210981 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780803210981 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)221147865

LCCN:

2008021832

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)