Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian Project in the Field
- ISBN-10
- 0803221932
- ISBN-13
- 9780803221932
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 178
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003-01-01
- Publisher
- U of Nebraska Press
- Author
- Mick Gidley
Description
Housing a wealth of ethnographic information yet steeped in nostalgia and predicated upon the assumption that Native Americans were a "vanishing race," Curtis's work has been both influential and controversial, and its vision of Native Americans must still be reckoned with today."--BOOK JACKET.
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