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Ephraim George Squier and the Development of American Anthropology (review)

Ephraim George Squier and the Development of American Anthropology (review) a pattern of disadvantaging Native defendants, could have been made more relevant by addressing the inherent unfairness to which the legal system still subjects them. Terry A. Barnhart. Ephraim George Squier and the Development of American Anthropology. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. 425 pp. Cloth, $59.95. Martin Gallivan, College of William and Mary When Ephraim George Squier partnered with Edwin H. Davis in 1845 to sur- vey prehistoric earthworks and mounds in the Ohio River Valley, detailed and systematic archaeological survey was almost nonexistent in the Americas. “Ethnological” inquiry in the early nineteenth century frequently involved efforts to link Native American societies to Biblical genealogies. However, by the end of Squier’s life in 1888, the Bible no longer served as the ultimate source of information on the ancient American past. An explosion of archaeological and ethnographic knowledge provided the foundations for the Victorian evo- lutionism and comparative method central to anthropology, particularly in its pre-Boasian mode. American anthropology was on the verge of becoming an institutionalized discipline. Terry A. Barnhart’s thorough and engaging intellectual biography, Ephraim George Squier and the Development of American Anthropology, details the substan- tial role Squier played in this pivotal era. Squier and Davis’s http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Indian Quarterly University of Nebraska Press

Ephraim George Squier and the Development of American Anthropology (review)

Gallivan, Martin D.,
The American Indian Quarterly , Volume 31 (2) – May 10, 2007
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a pattern of disadvantaging Native defendants, could have been made more relevant by addressing the inherent unfairness to which the legal system still subjects them. Terry A. Barnhart. Ephraim George Squier and the Development of American Anthropology. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. 425 pp. Cloth, $59.95. Martin Gallivan, College of William and Mary When Ephraim George Squier partnered with Edwin H. Davis in 1845 to sur- vey prehistoric earthworks and mounds in the Ohio River Valley, detailed and systematic archaeological survey was almost nonexistent in the Americas. “Ethnological” inquiry in the early nineteenth century frequently involved efforts to link Native American societies to Biblical genealogies. However, by the end of Squier’s life in 1888, the Bible no longer served as the ultimate source of information on the ancient American past. An explosion of archaeological and ethnographic knowledge provided the foundations for the Victorian evo- lutionism and comparative method central to anthropology, particularly in its pre-Boasian mode. American anthropology was on the verge of becoming an institutionalized discipline. Terry A. Barnhart’s thorough and engaging intellectual biography, Ephraim George Squier and the Development of American Anthropology, details the substan- tial role Squier played in this pivotal era. Squier and Davis’s

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Published: May 10, 2007

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