Embattled Excavations : Colonial and Transcultural Constructions of the American Deep Past / Gesa Mackenthun
American national self-invention is fundamentally entwined with cultural constructions of American "prehistory" - the human presence on the continent since the earliest arrivals at least 16,000 years ago. Embattled Excavations offers exemplary readings of the entanglements between reconstr...
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| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Edition: | 1st, New ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cultural Encounters and the Discourses of Scholarship
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments Chapter One Ruined Land. America's Foreign Past. An Introduction Chapter Two Imperial Archeology: Ancient Ruins and the American Isthmus Chapter Three Fossils and Immortality. Geological Time and Spiritual Crisis in Nineteenth-Century America Chapter Four Ruins and Resilience: Re-Membering Gi'was Chapter Five Epilogue Works Cited Picture Credits