Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian Project in the Field / edited and with an introduction by Mick Gidley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gidley, M. (Mick)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Pictorial works.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Portraits.

Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952. North American Indian.

Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 178 p., [22] p. of plates ) ill. ;

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"In Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian Project in the Field, Mick Gidley provides an intimate and informative glimpse of Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952) and his associates as they undertook their work in the early decades of the twentieth century. A photographer, Curtis embarked on an epic quest to document through word and picture the traditional cultures of Native Americans in the western United States - cultures that he believed were inevitably doomed. Curtis's project became the largest anthropological enterprise undertaken in this country and yielded the monumental work The North American Indian (1907-30).

Its publication was a watershed in the anthropological study of Native Americans and inspired the first full-length documentary film, popular magazine articles, books for young readers, lectures, and photography exhibitions. Housing a wealth of ethnographic information yet steeped in nostalgia and predicated upon the assumption that Native Americans were a "vanishing race," Curtis's work has been both influential and controversial, and its vision of Native Americans must still be reckoned with today."--Jacket.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. In the Southwest

3. On the Plains

4. In the Northwest

5. Up and Down the West Coast

6. Generally Speaking.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p.163-169) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786610424108

9781280424106

1280424109

9780803203488

0803203489

OCLC:

53119472