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- catalog abstract ""In August of 1838 the United States Exploring Expedition set sail from Norfolk Navy Yard with six ships and more than seven hundred crewmen, including technicians and scientists. Over the course of four years the expedition made stops on the east and west coasts of South America; visited Australia, New Zealand, Samoa, and Tahiti; discovered the Antarctic land mass; and explored the Fiji Islands, Tonga, the Hawaiian Islands, and the Pacific Coast of North America." "In The Shaping of American Ethnography Barry Alan Joyce illuminates the process by which the Americans on the expedition filtered their observations of the indigenous peoples they encountered through the lens of their peculiar constructions of "savagery" as shaped by the American experience. The native peoples were classified according to the prevailing American perceptions of Native Americans as "wild" and African American slaves as "docile." The use of physical characteristics such as skin color as a classificatory tool was subordinated to the perceived image of the prototypical savage. Joyce argues that the nineteenth-century explorers shared the attributes that characterize the discipline of anthropology in any age - a reliance on synthetic systems that are period- and culture-dependent. By applying American images of savagery to world cultures, American scientists and explorers of this period helped construct the foundation for an American racial world-view that contributed to the implementation of manifest destiny and laid the ideological foundations for American expansion and imperialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12048730.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""In August of 1838 the United States Exploring Expedition set sail from Norfolk Navy Yard with six ships and more than seven hundred crewmen, including technicians and scientists. Over the course of four years the expedition made stops on the east and west coasts of South America; visited Australia, New Zealand, Samoa, and Tahiti; discovered the Antarctic land mass; and explored the Fiji Islands, Tonga, the Hawaiian Islands, and the Pacific Coast of North America." "In The Shaping of American Ethnography Barry Alan Joyce illuminates the process by which the Americans on the expedition filtered their observations of the indigenous peoples they encountered through the lens of their peculiar constructions of "savagery" as shaped by the American experience. The native peoples were classified according to the prevailing American perceptions of Native Americans as "wild" and African American slaves as "docile." The use of physical characteristics such as skin color as a classificatory tool was subordinated to the perceived image of the prototypical savage. Joyce argues that the nineteenth-century explorers shared the attributes that characterize the discipline of anthropology in any age - a reliance on synthetic systems that are period- and culture-dependent. By applying American images of savagery to world cultures, American scientists and explorers of this period helped construct the foundation for an American racial world-view that contributed to the implementation of manifest destiny and laid the ideological foundations for American expansion and imperialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1 Motivations and Preparation 11 -- 2 Around the Horn 28 -- 3 Across the Pacific 43 -- 4 World of the Feejee 87 -- 5 Return to America 123 -- 6 Ethnography and the Legacy of the Expedition 144.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-187) and index.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 196 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Shaping of American ethnography.".
- catalog identifier "0803225911 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Shaping of American ethnography.".
- catalog isPartOf "Critical studies in the history of anthropology ; v. 2".
- catalog isPartOf "Critical studies in the history of anthropology ; v. 2.".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press,".
- catalog relation "Shaping of American ethnography.".
- catalog spatial "Northwest Coast of North America.".
- catalog spatial "Oceania".
- catalog spatial "Oceania.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "305.8/09/034 21".
- catalog subject "Ethnological expeditions History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Ethnology Oceania History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Ethnology Oceania.".
- catalog subject "Ethnology United States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "GN663 .J69 2001".
- catalog subject "Indians of North America Northwest Coast of North America.".
- catalog subject "Indians of South America.".
- catalog subject "Racism History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "United States Exploring Expedition (1838-1842)".
- catalog tableOfContents "1 Motivations and Preparation 11 -- 2 Around the Horn 28 -- 3 Across the Pacific 43 -- 4 World of the Feejee 87 -- 5 Return to America 123 -- 6 Ethnography and the Legacy of the Expedition 144.".
- catalog title "The shaping of American ethnography : the Wilkes Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 / Barry Alan Joyce.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".