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Anthropology Goes to the Fair: The 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition (Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology)

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World’s fairs and industrial expositions constituted a phenomenally successful popular culture movement all the way through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Along with the latest technological innovations, each and every exposition showcased commercial and cultural exhibits, entertainment concessions, national and corporate displays of wealth, and indigenous peoples from the colonial empires of the host country.
 
As scientists claiming specialized knowledge about indigenous peoples, especially American Indians, anthropologists used expositions to promote their quest for professional status and authority. Anthropology Goes to the Fair takes readers during the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition to see how anthropology, as conceptualized by W J McGee, the first president of the American Anthropological Association, showcased itself through programs, static displays, and living exhibits for millions of people  “to turn each and every half of the world how the other half lives.” More than two thousand Native peoples negotiated and portrayed their very own agendas in this world stage. The reader will see how anthropology itself used to be changed within the process.

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