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

Publication Info. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2008]
©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 471 pages) : illustrations, map.
Series Critical studies in the history of anthropology
Critical studies in the history of anthropology.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.
Note Print version record.
Subject Indians of North America. (OCoLC)fst00969633
Ethnology. (OCoLC)fst00916106
Imperialism. (OCoLC)fst00968126
Olympic Games (3rd : 1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.)
Sports -- Anthropological aspects -- United States.
Imperialism.
Sports -- Anthropological aspects. (OCoLC)fst01130434
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Public opinion.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject United States -- History.
Ethnic relations. (OCoLC)fst00916005
Indians of North America -- Public opinion. (OCoLC)fst00969883
Olympic Games. (OCoLC)fst01408249
United States -- Ethnic relations.
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.)
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Exhibitions.
Subject Louisiana Purchase Exposition. (OCoLC)fst01405481
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Subject Indians of North America -- Public opinion.
Ethnology -- United States.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- History.
Genre/Form Exhibition catalogs. (OCoLC)fst01424028
Subject Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
Indians of North America -- Exhibitions.
United States -- Race relations.
Added Author Brownell, Susan.
Other Form: Print version: 1904 anthropology days and Olympic games. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2008 9780803210981 0803210981 (DLC) 2008021832 (OCoLC)221147865
Standard No. 9786611958435
ISBN 9780803219090 (electronic bk.)
0803219091 (electronic bk.)
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