Zuni, Hopi, Copan : early anthropology at Harvard, 1890-1893 / edited by Curtis M. Hinsley with contributions by Louis A. Hieb, Barbara W. Fash.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hinsley, Curtis M., editor.

Hieb, Louis A., contributer.

Fash, Barbara W., 1955- contributer.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology--United States--History--19th century.

Anthropology.

Travel.

Owens, J. G. (John G.), -1893--Correspondence.

Owens, J. G.

Stratton, Deborah Harker--Correspondence.

Stratton, Deborah Harker.

Owens, J. G. (John G.), -1893.

Zuni Indian Reservation (N.M.)--Description and travel.

Zuni Indian Reservation (N.M.).

Hopi Indian Reservation (Ariz.)--Description and travel.

Hopi Indian Reservation (Ariz.).

Copán Site (Honduras)--Description and travel.

Copán Site (Honduras).

Arizona--Hopi Indian Reservation.

Honduras--Copán Site.

New Mexico--Zuni Indian Reservation.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Personal correspondence.

Physical Description:

xii, 356 pages : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Peabody Museum Press ; Washington, D.C. : In association with Dumbarton Oaks, [2023]

Summary:

"Zuni, Hopi, Copan: Early Anthropology at Harvard, 1890-1893 publishes one hundred letters from John Gundy Owens to Deborah Harker Stratton, currently held in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University. Owens was one of the first graduate students in anthropology at Harvard University; his poignant letters to "Miss Debbie" trace a budding relationship of affection in late Victorian America and offer vivid, highly entertaining accounts of his fieldwork at Zuni pueblo in New Mexico, Hopi mesa villages of Arizona, and the Maya site of Copan in Honduras. Tragically, Owens died at age twenty-seven in Copan; Stratton never married and kept the letters until her own death, nearly fifty years later. Introductory essays by Curtis M. Hinsley, Louis A. Hieb, and Barbara contextualize the annotated letters and shed new light on early anthropological training in the United States"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

John Owens and Jesse Fewkes at Zuni, 1890 / Curtis M. Hinsley

The letters from Zuni / edited and annotated by Curtis M. Hinsley

Trails to Tusayan : John Owens at Hopi, 1891 / Louis A. Hieb

The letters from Hopi / edited and annotated by Louis A. Hieb

"In the interest of science" : John Owens and the Peabody Museum's Central American Expedition to Honduras, 1891-1893 / Barbara W. Fash

The letters from Copan, 1891-1893 / edited and annotated by Barbara W. Fash

The trail of the letters, 1893-1980 / Curtis M. Hinsley.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780873659154

0873659155

OCLC:

1343161221

Publisher Number:

99993629053