Science Encounters the Indian, 1820-1880: The Early Years of American Ethnology

by Robert E. Bieder and Bieder

Book Overview

Early nineteenth-century ethnologists viewed the American Indians through a prism of intellectual arguments inherited from European Enlightenment thinkers. From that perspective, the Indians were seen as an inferior race whose primitive existence stemmed from an adverse environment, and whose "progress" depended on the civilizing effects of education and an altered physical environment.

The evolution away from that view, in the face of new...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806135719
• ISBN13: 9780806135717
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.2"