The 1904 anthropology days and Olympic games: sport, race, and American imperialism
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lincoln University of Nebraska Press c2008
Series:Critical studies in the history of anthropology
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. 415-449) and index
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 471 p.)
ISBN:0803219091
9780803219090

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