From 1895 to 1904, Pasadena bookstore owner Adam Clark Vroman (1856–1916) made eight summer trips to photograph the landscape and indigenous peoples of the Arizona and New Mexico Territories. In Southern California, his contemporaries recognized him as a local photographer of note and an authority on Southwest Indian cultural practices. Vroman consolidated his distinguished national reputation by forming working relationships with the staff of the Smithsonian Institution’s Bureau of American Ethnology. The Bureau, established in 1879, was the key institutional proponent of social evolutionary theory in the United States. Adherents to the theory sought to map the development of the human mind as it evolved from the meanest state of savagery ...
An active part of the exploration of the American West, Dr. Hayden's team, with the help of famous p...
While photography has a long history of being used by anthropologists, not much has been written of ...
This excellent volume is an illustrated reconstruction of what was probably the first exhibition of ...
When and where was photography invented? Received knowledge tells us that a few European men of dist...
In the final decades of the nineteenth century, Darwin’s theory of evolution reverberated across nea...
The original face-to-face encounter of American Indians in portraits and pictorial field studies rei...
It is well known that by the turn of the century, male photographers, such as Edward S. Curtis were ...
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis and his primary phot...
The author offers a critical view on the relationship between photography and anthropology in Great ...
From 1907 to 1930, Edward S. Curtis created The North American Indian, a forty-volume edition of pho...
People have been taking pictures of Native Americans for well over a century-for almost as long as t...
This dissertation considers photographs of American Indians in Parisian exhibitions between 1870 and...
Although Alfred Kroeber is universally regarded as the founder of California Indian studies, his imp...
This essay explores the use of visual material in anthropology and some of the problems it has raise...
This thesis investigates the relationship between historical ethnographic photographs of Native Amer...
An active part of the exploration of the American West, Dr. Hayden's team, with the help of famous p...
While photography has a long history of being used by anthropologists, not much has been written of ...
This excellent volume is an illustrated reconstruction of what was probably the first exhibition of ...
When and where was photography invented? Received knowledge tells us that a few European men of dist...
In the final decades of the nineteenth century, Darwin’s theory of evolution reverberated across nea...
The original face-to-face encounter of American Indians in portraits and pictorial field studies rei...
It is well known that by the turn of the century, male photographers, such as Edward S. Curtis were ...
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis and his primary phot...
The author offers a critical view on the relationship between photography and anthropology in Great ...
From 1907 to 1930, Edward S. Curtis created The North American Indian, a forty-volume edition of pho...
People have been taking pictures of Native Americans for well over a century-for almost as long as t...
This dissertation considers photographs of American Indians in Parisian exhibitions between 1870 and...
Although Alfred Kroeber is universally regarded as the founder of California Indian studies, his imp...
This essay explores the use of visual material in anthropology and some of the problems it has raise...
This thesis investigates the relationship between historical ethnographic photographs of Native Amer...
An active part of the exploration of the American West, Dr. Hayden's team, with the help of famous p...
While photography has a long history of being used by anthropologists, not much has been written of ...
This excellent volume is an illustrated reconstruction of what was probably the first exhibition of ...