Bibliograph

The place of stone, Dighton Rock and the erasure of America's indigenous past, Douglas Hunter

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The place of stone, Dighton Rock and the erasure of America's indigenous past, Douglas Hunter

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-308) and index

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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

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illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The place of stone

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

963230993

Responsibility statement

Douglas Hunter

Sub title

Dighton Rock and the erasure of America's indigenous past

Table Of Contents

A lost Portuguese explorer's American boulder -- First impressions and first arrivals: colonists encounter Dighton Rock -- Altogether ignorant: denying an indigenous provenance and constructing gothicism -- Multiple migrations: esotericism, Beringia, and Native Americans as Tartar hordes -- Stones of power: Edward Augustus Kendall's esoteric case for Dighton Rock's indigeneity -- Colonization's new epistemology: American archaeology and the road to the Trail of Tears -- Vinland imagined: the Norsemen and the gothicists claim Dighton Rock -- Shingwauk's reading: Dighton Rock and Henry Rowe Schoolcraft's troubled ethnology -- Reversing Dighton Rock's polarity: Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, the American Ethnological Society, and the Grave Creek Stone -- Meaningless scribblings: Edmund Burke Delabarre, lazy Indians, and the Corte-Real theory -- American place-making: Dighton Rock as a Portuguese relic -- The stone's place: Dighton Rock Museum and narratives of power

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