The 1904 anthropology days and Olympic Games : sport, race and american imperialism /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Lincoln:
University of Nebraska Press,
2008
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| Series: | Critical studies in the history of anthropology
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Table of Contents:
- 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 Coubertinʹs 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. OʹBonsawin
- "Leav(ing) the white(s) - far behind them" : the girls from Fort Shaw (Montana) Indian School, basketball champions of the 1904 Worldʹs 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