Colonial Encounters of First Peoples and First Anthropologists in British Columbia, Canada
The earliest professional anthropological fieldwork undertaken within the Canadian province of British Columbia was by Harlan Smith, 1897-1899, sponsored by Franz Boas’ Jesup North Pacific Expedition. Smith’s professional publications from this work, prepared in the “objective scientific” mode of di...
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crunivprflorida:10.5744/florida/9780813056241.003.0013 2023-05-15T16:15:19+02:00 Colonial Encounters of First Peoples and First Anthropologists in British Columbia, Canada Listening to the Late Nineteenth-Century Voices of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition Carlson, Catherine C. Kehoe, Alice B. 2019 http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813056241.003.0013 unknown University Press of Florida Archaeologies of Listening page 272-282 book-chapter 2019 crunivprflorida https://doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813056241.003.0013 2022-04-08T16:58:14Z The earliest professional anthropological fieldwork undertaken within the Canadian province of British Columbia was by Harlan Smith, 1897-1899, sponsored by Franz Boas’ Jesup North Pacific Expedition. Smith’s professional publications from this work, prepared in the “objective scientific” mode of discourse of the time, contrast with his unpublished personal letters and notes that preserve names, personalities, and communications with First Nations people assisting his research. A controversial part of Smith’s assignment was to collect human skulls from graves, over objections from families, because measuring skulls was a rewarded part of anthropological science at the time. These plundered skulls alienated First Nations from anthropology, an attitude persisting today. Book Part First Nations University Press of Florida (via Crossref) British Columbia ENVELOPE(-125.003,-125.003,54.000,54.000) Canada Pacific 272 282 |
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The earliest professional anthropological fieldwork undertaken within the Canadian province of British Columbia was by Harlan Smith, 1897-1899, sponsored by Franz Boas’ Jesup North Pacific Expedition. Smith’s professional publications from this work, prepared in the “objective scientific” mode of discourse of the time, contrast with his unpublished personal letters and notes that preserve names, personalities, and communications with First Nations people assisting his research. A controversial part of Smith’s assignment was to collect human skulls from graves, over objections from families, because measuring skulls was a rewarded part of anthropological science at the time. These plundered skulls alienated First Nations from anthropology, an attitude persisting today. |
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Colonial Encounters of First Peoples and First Anthropologists in British Columbia, Canada |
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Colonial Encounters of First Peoples and First Anthropologists in British Columbia, Canada |
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Colonial Encounters of First Peoples and First Anthropologists in British Columbia, Canada |
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colonial encounters of first peoples and first anthropologists in british columbia, canada |
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