ISBN

9780826349200; 082634920X

Statement of Responsibility

Hayes Peter Mauro.

Publication Information

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press

Physical Description

178 p., [65] p. of plates : ill., ports. 24 cm.

Contents

Introduction -- Chapter one: the "savage" and antebellum science -- The Indian body as tabula rasa -- The birth of "scientific" knowledge and the "purity" of the Native body -- Science, art, and democracy: phrenology gains a foothold in America -- The Scientific savage: Samuel Morton, measurement, and proving savagery -- Chapter two: producing the Indian: indexing and pathologizing the Native American -- Clark Mills, phrenology, and a national ideal -- Visualizing Indianness: the Smithsonian and ethnographic collecting -- Chapter three: producing Americans: photography and indoctrination at Carlisle -- Photography, race, and the exigencies of representation -- Pratt, Choate, and the politics of photographing Indians -- New arrivals: to the ends of the earth -- Chapter four: photography and indoctrination II: the before-and-after portrait -- Tom Torlino: a photographic Odyssey -- White Buffalo: the body as tourist art -- Chapter five: publicizing the "civilized" savage -- Phrenology, the Boarding School, and the "Red Man" at the White City -- Frances Benjamin Johnston, Hampton, and the Carlisle album -- Photographic Native voice at Carlisle -- Imaging the "manly" Native body -- Conclusion: The Limits of Assimilationist Representation.