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xiii, 216 pages : 24 cm, Drawing from unpublished writing, much of it autobiographical, recounts how Kidder, between 1913 and 1963, introduced the notion that archaeologists should be more than collectors for museums, furthered the use of ethnography, and shaped the methodology now used in Southwest and Maya investigations, Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-208) and index, From Ornithologist to Archaeologist -- Fieldwork: Pushed Off the Pier -- The Pecos Excavations -- The Maya and the Carnegie Institution -- Kidder's Impact on Americanist Archaeology -- Appendix 1. Early Travels -- Appendix 2: Fieldwork at Pecos -- Appendix 3: The Indian -- South of Us -- Appendix 4: Index to the Personal Papers of Alfred Vincent Kidder -- Appendix 5: Index to the A.V. Kidder Correspondence, American Philosophical Society -- Appendix 6: Index to the A.V. Kidder-Harold S. Colton Correspondence, Museum of Northern Arizona

Author

Givens, Douglas R.

Publisher

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780826313515

Subjects

History, Biography, Anthropology