TY - BOOK ID - 46209364 TI - Nature and antiquities : the making of archaeology in the Americas AU - Kohl, Philip L. AU - Podgorny, Irina AU - Gänger, Stefanie PY - 2014 SN - 0816539251 081659855X 0816531129 1322182841 9780816598557 9780816531127 PB - University of Arizona Press DB - UniCat KW - Archaeology KW - Archeology KW - Anthropology KW - Auxiliary sciences of history KW - History KW - Antiquities KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology. KW - America KW - Indians KW - Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge KW - Natural history KW - Archaeologists KW - Antiquities. KW - History. KW - Historians KW - History, Natural KW - Natural science KW - Physiophilosophy KW - Biology KW - Science KW - Knowledge, Theory of KW - Methodology KW - Science and the humanities KW - Human beings KW - Antiquities, Prehistoric KW - Indian antiquities KW - Indian artifacts KW - Primitive societies KW - history of archaeology KW - archaeological theory KW - 19th century archaeology KW - 20th century archaeology KW - indigenous informant KW - Social sciences UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:46209364 AB - "Nature and Antiquities analyzes how the study of indigenous peoples was linked to the study of nature and natural sciences. Leading scholars break new ground and entreat archaeologists to acknowledge the importance of ways of knowing in the study of nature in the history of archaeology"-- "Nature and Antiquities examines the relation between the natural sciences, anthropology, and archaeology in the Americas in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Taking the reader across the Americas from the Southern Cone to Canada, across the Andes, the Brazilian Amazon, Mesoamerica, and the United States, the book explores the early history of archaeology from a Pan-American perspective. The volume breaks new ground by entreating archaeologists to acknowledge the importance of ways of knowing that resulted from the study of nature in the history of archaeology. Some of the contributions to this volume trace the part conventions, practices, and concepts from natural history and the natural sciences played in the history and making of the discipline. Others set out to uncover, reassemble, or adjust our vision of collections that research historians of archaeology have disregarded or misrepresented--because their nineteenth-century makers would refuse to comply with today's disciplinary borders and study natural specimens and antiquities in conjunction, under the rubric of the territorial, the curious or the universal. Other contributions trace the sociopolitical implications of studying nature in conjunction with 'indigenous peoples' in the Americas--inquiring into what it meant and entailed to comprehend the inhabitants of the American continent in and through a state of nature"-- ER -