Limits of Multiculturalism: Interrogating the Origins of American Anthropology

by Scott Michaelsen

Traces anthropology's Native American roots.

In the early nineteenth century, the profession of American anthropology emerged as European Americans James Fenimore Cooper and Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, among others, began to make a living by studying the "Indian." Less well known are the AmerIndians who, at that time, were writing and publishing ethnographic accounts of their own people. By bringing to the fore this literature...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816632472
• ISBN13: 9780816632473
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"