Objects and Others: Essays on Museums and Material Culture

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INDEX Abbott, Charles C, 62-70 Aborigines Protection Society, 21 Academic anthropology, 8, 36-37, 43, 52, 61,69, 70-72, 75, 76,88, 108, 112, 134, 135, 140, 197. See also specific universities Achebe, Chinua, 241n Aesthetic{s): and museum ethnography, 3, 146-63·passim; as dimension of museum, 6; instinct, 113, 161, 167; contrasted with ethnographic, 146, 147, 148, 164,242, 243; non-Western, 152-53, 189, 241n; naturalistic, 152-55; classical, 153, 154; materialist, 154-55; values of preColumbian culture, 159, 160; reevaluation of, 163, 189; appropriation of primitive, 164, 240; and classification, 239. See also Art Africa, 22, 25, 123-24, 135, 139, 140, 156, 163, 243, 244 Afro-American, 113, 118 Agassiz, Alexander, 57, 61 Agassiz, Louis, 49-51, 52-53, 61, 89 Algert, C H., 176 Amateurs, 62-69, 202 American Anthropological Association, 12, 115,130-31,138,141 American Antiquarian Society, 51 American Association for the Advancement of Science, 72 American Council of Learned Societies, 132 American Indian Movement, 185 American Indians. See Native Americans Americanist{s), 146, 148-50, 162 American Museum of Natural History: founding , 83; Department of Anthropology staff, 84; administration, 84-85; anthropological halls, 90, 92, 94; building, 90-92, 94; mentioned, 72, 75-108 passim, 115, 120, 138, 243, 245 Andrews, E. P., 68 Angell, J. N., 116, 118 Angrand, Leonce, 156 Anteone, Gladice, 186 Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 30, 33, 115, 123, 124, 126, 141 Anthropological Society of London, 29 Anthropology: Anglo-American, 4, 8, 11416 , 139, 141; shift to behavioral, 8, 108, 114, 137, 140-41; demography of, 9, 12; rehistoricization of, 12; as science, 30, 51, 60, 115, 128, 137; as humanistic study, 51, 60; obje~ts of, 108, 112, 192; political economy of, 112-16, 138-42; research priorities of, 133-34, 138; weakening of general anthropology, 141 Antiquarianism, 32, 221, 243 Antiquity of man, 20, 50, 53, 62-69, 70, 226, 227-28 Applied anthropology, 123, 126, 136, 137 Arapaho, 88 Archaeological Institute, London, 27, 28, 29 Archaeological Institute of America, 53-55, 56, 57 Archeology: and museums, 4, 9, 49-71 passim , 90, 92, 108, 170; "three age" system, 7,26,41,225; prehistoric, 22, 23, 25, 219,222,226; Pitt Rivers and, 26-28; Paleolithic and Neolithic, 27, 41, 60, 220, 222, 226; at the Smithsonian, 50, 218; North American, 53, 55, 60-61, 70, 224; classical vs. prehistoric,S5, 56, 59-60; Mayan, 69-71,140; training, 72, 108, 122, 228; support for, 140-41, 223; Southwest , 170, 171, 172, 175; recovery and interpretation of data, 218-19; and interpretation of human behavior, 219, 231, 232; radiocarbon dating, 220, 223; New Archeology , 223, 224, 225; mentioned, 202, 218-33 passim. See also Historiography of archeology Art: "primitive," 9, 147, 148, 153, 155, 15862 , 163-64, 187,242; fine art, 55, 58, 148, 189, 239; primitivist revolution, 14647 , 148, 159, 162-64,242-43; Ars Americana , 146-63 passim; pre-Columbian, 146-63 passim, 242-43; Medieval, 152, 153, 154; classical, 152, 163; Renaissance, 152-53; decadence, 153, 154; evolution of, 153-55, 172; native artists, 167, 168, 174, 180, 183, 186; commercialization of, 167, 172, 176, 180, 181; preservationism, 167249 250 INDEX Art (continued) 68, 180, 181, 185, 189; incorporation of prehistoric designs, 171-74; revival of native traditions, 174, 176, 182, 183-85; exhibitions , 178, 186, 187,243; critique of revivalism, 185-87; liberation of Native American artistic vision, 187-89; Individualists movement, 188. See also Aesthetic (s); Artifact(s); Material culture; Object (s) Artifact(s): and fine art, 3, 6, 147, 242; and race history, 22, 31; and moral education of civilized nations, 51; Paleolithic and Neolithic, 60; as basis of scholarship, 88, 90, 104, 108; pre-Columbian, 148, 150, 160, 242; sale of, 175, 240; contextualization of, 193, 239-40, 244-45; as fetishes, 244. See also Material culture; Object(s) Art market: trader/dealers, 167-68, 170, 171, 174, 176, 180, 182; scholar/anthropologists , 167-68, 170, 174; collector/humanists (philanthropists), 167-68, 176, 178, 180, 182, 186, 188; phases of, 168; and introduction of cash economy, 171, 174, 180, 185; arts and crafts fairs, 17680 , 182, 183, 186, 189; mentioned, 9, 158, 167-89 passim, 240, 242, 243 Ashanti, 243, 244, 245 Ashmolean Museum, 7, 35, 37 Association of American Indian Museums, 11 Association of Social Anthropologists, 139, 142 Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad, 168-69 Aubrey, John, 221 Austin, Mary, 178 Australian Aboriginals, 28, 29, 32, 37, 119, 121 Australian...