Anthropology and the racial politics of culture

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Label

Anthropology and the racial politics of culture

Statement of responsibility

Lee D. Baker

Creator

• Baker, Lee D., 1966-

Contributor

• American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Annual meeting, (2005 :

Subject

• Anthropology -- Congresses
• Culture
• Culture -- Congresses
• Race
• Anthropology
• Sociology
• Sociology -- Congresses
• Race -- Congresses

Genre

• Congresses

Language

eng

Summary

"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."--Publisher's description

Cataloging source

NcD/DLC

Dewey number

305.8

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

GN320

LC item number

.B25 2010

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography