Keywords:
Anthropological linguistics-North America-History-19th centeury
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Indians of North America-Languages
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Borderlands-North America-History-19th century
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Ethnology-North America-History-19th century
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United States-Territorial expansion-Social aspects
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Anthropological linguistics ; North America ; History ; 19th centeury
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Indians of North America ; Languages
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Borderlands ; North America ; History ; 19th century
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Ethnology ; North America ; History ; 19th century
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United States ; Territorial expansion ; Social aspects
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Description / Table of Contents:
Ethnology and Empire tells stories about words and ideas, and ideas aboutwords that developed in concert with shifting conceptions about Native peoplesand western spaces in the nineteenth-century United States. Contextualizing theemergence of Native American linguistics as both a professionalized researchdiscipline and as popular literary concern of American culture prior to theU.S.-Mexico War, Robert Lawrence Gunn reveals the manner inwhich relays between the developing research practices of ethnology, works offiction, autobiography, travel narratives, Native oratory, and sign languagesgave
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
Online-Ressource (426 p)
ISBN:
9781479849055
Series Statement:
America and the Long 19th Century
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=2082217
DDC:
306.440972/1
Language:
English
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Philologies of Race: Ethnological Linguistics and Novelistic Representation; 2. Empire, Sign Languages, and the Long Expedition, 1819-1821; 3. John Dunn Hunter, Tecumseh, and the Linguistic Politics of Pan-Indianism; 4. Connecting Borderlands: Native Networks and the Fredonian Rebellion; 5. John Russell Bartlett's Literary Borderlands: Ethnology, the U.S-Mexico War, and the United States Boundary Survey; Indian Passports; Notes; Index; About the Author
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