Science Encounters the Indian, 1820-1880: The Early Years of American Ethnology by Robert E. Bieder

Science Encounters the Indian, 1820-1880: The Early Years of American Ethnology

Robert E. Bieder

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Early nineteenth-century ethnologists viewed the American Indians through a prism of intellectual arguments inherited from European Enlightenment thinkers. From that perspective, the Indians were seen as an inferior race whose primitive existence ...

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