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The 1904 Anthropology Days and Olympic Games: Sport, Race, and American Imperialism

The 1904 Anthropology Days and Olympic Games: Sport, Race, and American Imperialism

Brownell, Susan

Hardcover

Series: Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology

FictionNative American HistoryAnthropology

ISBN10: 0803210981
ISBN13: 9780803210981
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: Dec 1 2008
Pages: 490
Weight: 1.95
Height: 1.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
One of the more problematic sport spectacles in American history took place at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, which included the third modern Olympic Games. Associated with the Games was a curious event known as Anthropology Days organized by William J. McGee and James Sullivan, at that time the leading figures in American anthropology and sports, respectively. McGee recruited Natives who were participating in the fair's ethnic displays to compete in sports events, with the scientific goal of measuring the physical prowess of savages as compared with civilized men. This interdisciplinary collection of essays assesses the ideas about race, imperialism, and Western civilization manifested in the 1904 World's Fair and Olympic Games and shows how they are still relevant.

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