Nature and Antiquities - The Making of Archaeology in the Americas

Nature and Antiquities analyzes how the study of indigenous peoples was linked to the study of nature and natural sciences. Leading scholars break new ground and entreat archaeologists to acknowledge the importance of ways of knowing in the study of nature in the history of archaeology.

About the author

Philip L. Kohl is a professor of anthropology at Wellesley College, where he is also the Kathryn W. Davis Professor of Slavic Studies. He has published more than 150 articles and reviews, and delivered the 2007 Distinguished Lecture, Archaeological Division, at the American Anthropological Association Meeting.

Irina Podgorny, a principal investigator at CONICET, has been a research scholar at Museo de La Plata in Argentina since 1995 and at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in the years 2009 and 2010. She has published extensively on the history of comparative anatomy, paleontology, and archaeology.

Stefanie Gänger is an assistant professor at the Institute for Iberian and Latin American History at Cologne University. She is the author of Relics of the Past: The Collecting and Study of Pre-Columbian Antiquities in Peru and Chile, 1837-1911.

Product details

• Assisted by: Stefanie Gänger (Editor), Philip L Kohl (Editor), Irina Podgorny (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Arizona Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.12.2024
• EAN: 9780816554997
• ISBN: 978-0-8165-5499-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history