Isbn: 9781496246530 - declared defective: native americans, eugenics, and the myth of nam hollow (critical studies in the history of anthropology) (9 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Declared Defective is the anthropological history of an outcast community and a critical reevaluation of The Nam Family, written in 1912 by Arthur Estabrook and Charles Davenport, leaders of the early twentieth-century eugenics movement. Based on their investigations of an obscure rural enclave in upstate New York, the biologists were repulsed by the poverty and behavior of the people in Nam Hollow. They claimed that their alleged indolence, feeble-mindedness, licentiousness, alcoholism, and criminality were biologically inherited.Declared Defective reveals that Nam Hollow was actually a community of marginalized, mixed-race Native Americans, the Van Guilders, adapting to scarce resources during an era of tumultuous political and economic change. Their Mohican ancestors had lost lands and been displaced from the frontiers of colonial expansion in western Massachusetts in the late eighteenth century. Estabrook and Davenport's portrait of innate degeneracy was a grotesque mischaracterization based on class prejudice and ignorance of the history and subculture of the people of Guilder Hollow. By bringing historical experience, agency, and cultural process to the forefront of analysis, Robert Jarvenpa illuminates the real lives and struggles of the Mohican Van Guilders, exposing the pseudoscientific zealotry and fearmongering of Progressive Era eugenics while exploring the contradictions of race and class in America.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Declared Defective | Native Americans, Eugenics, and the Myth of Nam Hollow | Robert Jarvenpa | Taschenbuch | Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology | Einband - flex.(Paperback) | Englisch | 2026 | University of Nebraska Press | EAN 9781496246530 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.…