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The 1904 anthropology days and Olympic games : sport, race, and American imperialism
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- Creator
- edited by Susan Brownell
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2008]
- ©2008
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 471 pages) : illustrations, map
- data file
- ISBNs
- 9780803210981, 0803210981, 0803219091, 9780803219090
- OCLC
- ocn221147865, ocn312981223
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 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
Subjects
- 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.