The 1904 anthropology days and Olympic games
The 1904 anthropology days and Olympic games: sport, race, and American imperialism
edited by Susan Brownell
Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2008.
ISBN: 0803210981
DDC: 796.0973
LCC: GV706.2
Edition: (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 415-449) and index.
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 Coubertin's 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. O'Bonsawin -- "Leav(ing) the white(s)...far behind
them": the girls from Fort Shaw (Montana) Indian School, basketball
champions of the 1904 World's 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.
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