Anthropology and the Racial Politics of Culture
In the late nineteenth century, if ethnologists in the United States recognized African American culture, they often perceived it as something to be overcome and left behind. At the same time, they were committed to salvaging “disappearing” Native American culture by curating objects, narrating prac...
Saved in:
| 主要作者: | |
|---|---|
| 格式: | Online |
| 語言: | 英语 |
| 出版: |
Duke University Press
2021
|
| 主題: | |
| 在線閱讀: | OCN: 1308952707 |
| 標簽: |
沒有標簽, 成為第一個標記此記錄!
|
| _version_ | 1869518242693775360 |
|---|---|
| author | Baker, Lee D. |
| author_browse | Baker, Lee D. |
| author_facet | Baker, Lee D. |
| author_sort | Baker, Lee D. |
| collection | Directory of Open Access Books |
| description | In the late nineteenth century, if ethnologists in the United States recognized African American culture, they often perceived it as something to be overcome and left behind. At the same time, they were committed to salvaging “disappearing” Native American culture by curating objects, narrating practices, and recording languages. In Anthropology and the Racial Politics of Culture, Lee D. Baker examines theories of race and culture developed by American anthropologists during the late nineteenth century and early twentieth. He investigates the role that ethnologists played in creating a racial politics of culture in which Indians had a culture worthy of preservation and exhibition while African Americans did not.
Baker argues that the concept of culture developed by ethnologists to understand American Indian languages and customs in the nineteenth century formed the basis of the anthropological concept of race eventually used to confront “the Negro problem” in the twentieth century. As he explores the implications of anthropology’s different approaches to African Americans and Native Americans, and the field’s different but overlapping theories of race and culture, Baker delves into the careers of prominent anthropologists and ethnologists, including James Mooney Jr., Frederic W. Putnam, Daniel G. Brinton, and Franz Boas. His analysis takes into account not only scientific societies, journals, museums, and universities, but also the development of sociology in the United States, African American and Native American activists and intellectuals, philanthropy, the media, and government entities from the Bureau of Indian Affairs to the Supreme Court. In Anthropology and the Racial Politics of Culture, Baker tells how anthropology has both responded to and helped shape ideas about race and culture in the United States, and how its ideas have been appropriated (and misappropriated) to wildly different ends. |
| format | Online |
| id | doab-20.500.12854ir-69570 |
| institution | Directory of Open Access Books |
| language | eng |
| publishDate | 2021 |
| publishDateRange | 2021 |
| publishDateSort | 2021 |
| publisher | Duke University Press |
| publisherStr | Duke University Press |
| record_format | ojs |
| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-695702025-07-31T13:25:30Z Anthropology and the Racial Politics of Culture Baker, Lee D. Social Science Ethnic Studies American Social Science Ethnic Studies American African American & Black Studies Social Science Anthropology Cultural & Social thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology In the late nineteenth century, if ethnologists in the United States recognized African American culture, they often perceived it as something to be overcome and left behind. At the same time, they were committed to salvaging “disappearing” Native American culture by curating objects, narrating practices, and recording languages. In Anthropology and the Racial Politics of Culture, Lee D. Baker examines theories of race and culture developed by American anthropologists during the late nineteenth century and early twentieth. He investigates the role that ethnologists played in creating a racial politics of culture in which Indians had a culture worthy of preservation and exhibition while African Americans did not. Baker argues that the concept of culture developed by ethnologists to understand American Indian languages and customs in the nineteenth century formed the basis of the anthropological concept of race eventually used to confront “the Negro problem” in the twentieth century. As he explores the implications of anthropology’s different approaches to African Americans and Native Americans, and the field’s different but overlapping theories of race and culture, Baker delves into the careers of prominent anthropologists and ethnologists, including James Mooney Jr., Frederic W. Putnam, Daniel G. Brinton, and Franz Boas. His analysis takes into account not only scientific societies, journals, museums, and universities, but also the development of sociology in the United States, African American and Native American activists and intellectuals, philanthropy, the media, and government entities from the Bureau of Indian Affairs to the Supreme Court. In Anthropology and the Racial Politics of Culture, Baker tells how anthropology has both responded to and helped shape ideas about race and culture in the United States, and how its ideas have been appropriated (and misappropriated) to wildly different ends. 2021-05-07T02:01:44Z 2021-05-07T02:01:44Z 2021-05-06T03:30:19Z 2010 book OCN: 1308952707 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/48496 9781478090700 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/69570 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/48496/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/48496/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/48496/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/48496/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/48496/1/external_content.pdf Duke University Press Duke University Press https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822392699 https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822392699 8b9381d6-252e-4bed-8478-ee620c861aac Knowledge Unlatched 9781478090700 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) KU Select 2020: HSS Backlist Books Duke University Press open access |
| spellingShingle | Social Science Ethnic Studies American Social Science Ethnic Studies American African American & Black Studies Social Science Anthropology Cultural & Social thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology Baker, Lee D. Anthropology and the Racial Politics of Culture |
| title | Anthropology and the Racial Politics of Culture |
| title_full | Anthropology and the Racial Politics of Culture |
| title_fullStr | Anthropology and the Racial Politics of Culture |
| title_full_unstemmed | Anthropology and the Racial Politics of Culture |
| title_short | Anthropology and the Racial Politics of Culture |
| title_sort | anthropology and the racial politics of culture |
| topic | Social Science Ethnic Studies American Social Science Ethnic Studies American African American & Black Studies Social Science Anthropology Cultural & Social thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology |
| topic_facet | Social Science Ethnic Studies American Social Science Ethnic Studies American African American & Black Studies Social Science Anthropology Cultural & Social thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology |
| url | OCN: 1308952707 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT bakerleed anthropologyandtheracialpoliticsofculture |