Product Details
Paperback
112 pages
University of Washington Press
Published 1997
Synopsis
The Siberian Yakaghir people dubbed the camera "the three-legged device that draws a person's shadow to stone." US anthropology's foremost 19th century ethnographic expedition studying the origin of the American Indians serves as a focal point for debatable interpretations of such images as cultural
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In 1897, Morris Jesup, president of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, sponsored a five-year expedition to Alaska and Siberia. Under the direction of anthropologist Franz Boas, research teams studied the cultural and biological similarities and differences among the peoples living on both sides of the Bering Strait. Now, 100 years after the expedition, this book presents a valuable record of this event. 83 photos. |
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