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The art of Americanization at the Carlisle Indian School / Hayes Peter Mauro.
Penn Museum Library E97.6.C2 M28 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mauro, Hayes Peter, 1970-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.)--History.
- United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.).
- Indians of North America--Education--Pennsylvania--Carlisle--History.
- Indians of North America.
- Indians of North America--Cultural assimilation--Pennsylvania--Carlisle--History.
- Indians of North America--Pennsylvania--Carlisle--Ethnic identity--History.
- Indians of North America--Pennsylvania--Carlisle--History--Pictorial works.
- Americanization--History.
- Americanization.
- Art--Political aspects--Pennsylvania--Carlisle--History.
- Art.
- Photography--Political aspects--Pennsylvania--Carlisle--History.
- Photography.
- Propaganda--Pennsylvania--Carlisle--History.
- Propaganda.
- Racism in education--Pennsylvania--Carlisle--History.
- Racism in education.
- History.
- Photography--Political aspects.
- Art--Political aspects.
- Ethnicity.
- Indians of North America--Cultural assimilation.
- Indians of North America--Education.
- Pennsylvania--Carlisle.
- Genre:
- Pictorial works.
- Illustrated works.
- Physical Description:
- 178 pages, 65 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2011.
- Summary:
- Established by an act of Congress in 1879, the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in central Pennsylvania was conceived as a paramilitary bearding school that would solve the then-pressing "Indian Question" By forcibly assimilating and Americanizing Native American youth. As this cultural examination of the Americanization process at Carlisle shows, in the post-Civil War Gilded Age, producing model "American" citizens was part of the federal government's mission. A major part of that process was the "before-and-after" portrait.
- In this book an art historian examines the photos of students at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School as a specific instance of the aesthetics of Americanization. Mauro's analysis places the photography project at Carlisle in the history of ideas, considering the influence of an assortment of Victorian pseudoscientific ideas, among them phrenology and craniology, as well as the seventeenth-century concept of correspondence between character and appearance. He considers the work of Carlisle's photographers in historical context and also looks at photographs made by a student at the school. In addition, he critiques the photographs of the school's legendary football program. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- The "savage" and antebellum science
- Producing the Indian : indexing and pathologizing the Native American
- Producing Americans : photography and indoctrination at Carlisle
- Photography and indoctrination II : the before-and-after portrait
- Publicizing the "civilized" savage.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780826349200
- 082634920X
- OCLC:
- 670211576
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