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- catalog abstract ""The ancient settlement of Zuni Pueblo has seen many visitors over the centuries, from Spanish conquistadors to tourists from around the world. For more than a century, it has also drawn great attention from anthropologists, three of whom - Matilda Coxe Stevenson, Frank Hamilton Cushing, and Stewart Culin - brought remarkably different views of the Zuni people to the professional literature." "In this study, historian Eliza McFeely considers the work of Stevenson, Cushing, and Culin at Zuni, which, though influential, often misrepresented the realities of life there. Although of mixed value for anthropologists today, their work, McFeely suggests, reveals much about what contemporary Anglo Americans wished Native Americans to be; their "scientific creation stories" point to the shortcomings and contributions of the anthropological enterprise. A woman committed to science and accustomed to having to struggle in a culture dominated by men, Stevenson, for example, gave undue import to the role of women in Zuni society and revealed secretly observed rituals while dismissing matters of spirituality as superstitious. Cushing, a writer of then-popular books, tended to turn all Zuni expressions into fables. "When artifacts and informants could not answer his questions," McFeely writes, "he 're-created' the circumstances and allowed his own intuition to supply the missing links." And Culin was so entranced by Zuni material culture, by baskets and jewelry he acquired mostly from white traders, that he scarcely seems to have noticed the living people of the pueblo."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Zuni".
- catalog contributor b11983389.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""The ancient settlement of Zuni Pueblo has seen many visitors over the centuries, from Spanish conquistadors to tourists from around the world. For more than a century, it has also drawn great attention from anthropologists, three of whom - Matilda Coxe Stevenson, Frank Hamilton Cushing, and Stewart Culin - brought remarkably different views of the Zuni people to the professional literature." "In this study, historian Eliza McFeely considers the work of Stevenson, Cushing, and Culin at Zuni, which, though influential, often misrepresented the realities of life there. Although of mixed value for anthropologists today, their work, McFeely suggests, reveals much about what contemporary Anglo Americans wished Native Americans to be; their "scientific creation stories" point to the shortcomings and contributions of the anthropological enterprise. A woman committed to science and accustomed to having to struggle in a culture dominated by men, Stevenson, for example, gave undue import to the role of women in Zuni society and revealed secretly observed rituals while dismissing matters of spirituality as superstitious. Cushing, a writer of then-popular books, tended to turn all Zuni expressions into fables. "When artifacts and informants could not answer his questions," McFeely writes, "he 're-created' the circumstances and allowed his own intuition to supply the missing links." And Culin was so entranced by Zuni material culture, by baskets and jewelry he acquired mostly from white traders, that he scarcely seems to have noticed the living people of the pueblo."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-196) and index.".
- catalog description "Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Finding Zuni -- Imagining America -- Two-fold one-kind : Matilda Stevenson -- Place of grace : Frank Hamilton Cushing -- Blue Beard's chamber : Stewart Culin -- Conclusion : Zuni legacy.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 204 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0809027070 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Hill and Wang,".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "978.9/004979 21".
- catalog subject "Culin, Stewart 1858-1929.".
- catalog subject "Culin, Stewart, 1858-1929.".
- catalog subject "Cushing, Frank Hamilton 1857-1900.".
- catalog subject "Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 1857-1900.".
- catalog subject "E99.Z9 M24 2001".
- catalog subject "Intercultural communication United States.".
- catalog subject "Intercultural communication.".
- catalog subject "Public opinion United States.".
- catalog subject "Stevenson, Matilda Coxe, 1850-1915.".
- catalog subject "Zuni Indians Attitudes.".
- catalog subject "Zuni Indians Public opinion.".
- catalog subject "Zuni Indians.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Finding Zuni -- Imagining America -- Two-fold one-kind : Matilda Stevenson -- Place of grace : Frank Hamilton Cushing -- Blue Beard's chamber : Stewart Culin -- Conclusion : Zuni legacy.".
- catalog title "Zuni and the American imagination / Eliza McFeely.".
- catalog title "Zuni".
- catalog type "text".