The place of stone : Dighton Rock and the erasure of America's indigenous past / Douglas Hunter.
| Author/creator | Hunter, Doug, 1959- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017] |
| Description | 324 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-308) and index. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2016051985 |
| ISBN | 9781469634401 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1469634406 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | F74 .D45 H86 2017 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |