Savages and Scientists: The Smithsonian Institution and the Development of American Anthropology, 1846-1910
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PrintTraces the history of anthropology in Washington, D.C., the rise of government anthropology at the Bureau of American Ethnology and United States National Museum, especially the roles of Frank Hamilton Cushing, William Henry Holmes, William John McGee, James Mooney, and John Wesley Powell.
Smithsonian Institution History Bibliography
Based on his dissertation, "The Development of a Profession of Anthropology in Washington, D.C., 1846-1903," and reprinted in 1994 as "The Smithsonian and the American Indian: making a moral anthropology in Victorian America," with a new foreword.
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Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
1981