"Daniel Garrison Brinton (1837-99) was one of the founders of modern American anthropology, holder of the first professorship of anthropology in the United States, and an esteemed anthropological scholar. His personal library, the only existing intact research library of a schol…
"Discovering Cook's collections focuses on the collections of art and material culture brought back from the Pacific on Captain Cook's voyages ... The essays explore the history of the collections, their dispersal through the museums and private collections of Europe and the dif…
Celebrates the richness of Pacific Island cultures in the initial years of European contact as well as the collections' contemporary relevance to historians and the Indigenous communities who produced them. The essays in this book explore the history of the collections, their di…
Discovering Cook's Collections focuses on the collections of art and material culture brought back from the Pacific on Captain Cook's voyages and contains essays by some of the world's leading and most innovative historians and anthropologists. The book celebrates the richness o…
"The bulk of this book consists of the transcription of Walter Koelz's diary from the University of Michigan Himalayan Expedition, beginning on June 25, 1933, and ending on May 31, 1934"--Page 63.