The place of stone : Dighton Rock and the erasure of America's indigenous past / Douglas Hunter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hunter, Doug, 1959- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Petroglyphs.

History.

Dighton Rock (Mass.)--Historiography.

Dighton Rock (Mass.).

Petroglyphs--Massachusetts--Dighton Rock--History.

Indians of North America--Government relations.

Indians of North America.

Historiography.

Massachusetts--Dighton Rock.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

324 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]

Contents:

A lost Portuguese explorer's American boulder

First impressions and first arrivals: colonists encounter Dighton Rock

Altogether ignorant: denying an indigenous provenance and constructing gothicism

Multiple migrations: esotericism, Beringia, and Native Americans as Tartar hordes

Stones of power: Edward Augustus Kendall's esoteric case for Dighton Rock's indigeneity

Colonization's new epistemology: American archaeology and the road to the Trail of Tears

Vinland imagined: the Norsemen and the gothicists claim Dighton Rock

Shingwauk's reading: Dighton Rock and Henry Rowe Schoolcraft's troubled ethnology

Reversing Dighton Rock's polarity: Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, the American Ethnological Society, and the Grave Creek Stone

Meaningless scribblings: Edmund Burke Delabarre, lazy Indians, and the Corte-Real theory

American place-making: Dighton Rock as a Portuguese relic

The stone's place: Dighton Rock Museum and narratives of power.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-308) and index.

ISBN:

9781469634401

1469634406

OCLC:

963230993