Christen Mucher
Biographic Data
| ID | 453621 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christen Mucher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christen |
| FAMILY NAME | Mucher |
| SIGNATURE | MUCHER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Smith College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0991-803X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Assembled for Use: Indigenous Compilation and the Archives of Early Native American Literatures. Kelly Wisecup
Essays on American Indian and Mormon History
Book Review| January 01 2021 Essays on American Indian and Mormon History P. Jane Hafen and Brenden W. Rensink, eds. Essays on American Indian and Mormon History. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2019. Christen Mucher Christen Mucher Reviewed by Christen Mucher is associate professor of American Studies at Smith College (Massachusetts), where she teaches courses on early North America, Native and Indigenous Studies, US empire, and museum…
Frontiers of Science: Imperialism and Natural Knowledge in the Gulf South Borderlands, 1500–1850 . By Cameron B. Strang
“If there is a unifying thread that runs through the history of natural knowledge in America,” summarizes Cameron Strang in the last sentence of Frontiers of Science, “it is not the influence of liberty but the persistence of imperialism” (p. 344). With this, Strang concludes his powerful and clear-eyed assessment of both the history and historiography of U.S. science, one in which his commitment to analyzing the forces of slavery and imperialism…
Collecting Native America: John Lloyd Stephens and the Rhetorics of Archaeological Value
This article focuses on the representations of Maya statues made by archaeologist–explorer John Lloyd Stephens and his artistic collaborator Frederick Catherwood in the 1840s. While Stephens’s and Catherwood’s trips to Central America, Mexico, and the Yucatán were meant to provide material objects for a Pan-American museum of Native American “antiquities,” the statues themselves were never exhibited to the public. Nonetheless, the visual and lite…
Earthworks, Indigenous Subjects, and the Creation of American Anthropology
Earthworks, Indigenous Subjects, and the Creation of American Anthropology Christen Mucher (bio) Terry A. Barnhart. American Antiquities: Revisiting the Origins of American Archaeology. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2015. 594pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00. Sean P. Harvey. Native Tongues: Colonialism and Race from Encounter to the Reservation. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 2015. 352pp. Illustration…
Ethnology and Empire: Languages, Literature, and the Making of the North American Borderlands . America and the Long 19th Century Series. By Robert Lawrence Gunn
In the tense confrontation between Tecumseh and William Henry Harrison at Vincennes in 1810, the Shawnee leader famously accused Harrison of using linguistic difference to divide Native nations and accentuated his charge with “violent gestures” (p. 106). In Ethnology and Empire, Robert Lawrence Gunn revisits this well-known scene to argue that, despite a scholarly and administrative pre-occupation with language diversity and discord, Tecumseh’s a…
Preaching and the Rise of the American Novel Truth’s Ragged Edge: The Rise of the American Novel
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Preaching and the Rise of the American Novel Truth’s Ragged Edge: The Rise of the American Novel
Ethnology and Empire: Languages, Literature, and the Making of the North American Borderlands . America and the Long 19th Century Series. By Robert Lawrence Gunn
In the tense confrontation between Tecumseh and William Henry Harrison at Vincennes in 1810, the Shawnee leader famously accused Harrison of using linguistic difference to divide Native nations and accentuated his charge with “violent gestures” (p. 106). In Ethnology and Empire, Robert Lawrence Gunn revisits this well-known scene to argue that, despite a scholarly and administrative pre-occupation with language diversity and discord, Tecumseh’s a…
Earthworks, Indigenous Subjects, and the Creation of American Anthropology
Earthworks, Indigenous Subjects, and the Creation of American Anthropology Christen Mucher (bio) Terry A. Barnhart. American Antiquities: Revisiting the Origins of American Archaeology. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2015. 594pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00. Sean P. Harvey. Native Tongues: Colonialism and Race from Encounter to the Reservation. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 2015. 352pp. Illustration…
Collecting Native America: John Lloyd Stephens and the Rhetorics of Archaeological Value
This article focuses on the representations of Maya statues made by archaeologist–explorer John Lloyd Stephens and his artistic collaborator Frederick Catherwood in the 1840s. While Stephens’s and Catherwood’s trips to Central America, Mexico, and the Yucatán were meant to provide material objects for a Pan-American museum of Native American “antiquities,” the statues themselves were never exhibited to the public. Nonetheless, the visual and lite…
Frontiers of Science: Imperialism and Natural Knowledge in the Gulf South Borderlands, 1500–1850 . By Cameron B. Strang
“If there is a unifying thread that runs through the history of natural knowledge in America,” summarizes Cameron Strang in the last sentence of Frontiers of Science, “it is not the influence of liberty but the persistence of imperialism” (p. 344). With this, Strang concludes his powerful and clear-eyed assessment of both the history and historiography of U.S. science, one in which his commitment to analyzing the forces of slavery and imperialism…
Essays on American Indian and Mormon History
Book Review| January 01 2021 Essays on American Indian and Mormon History P. Jane Hafen and Brenden W. Rensink, eds. Essays on American Indian and Mormon History. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2019. Christen Mucher Christen Mucher Reviewed by Christen Mucher is associate professor of American Studies at Smith College (Massachusetts), where she teaches courses on early North America, Native and Indigenous Studies, US empire, and museum…
Assembled for Use: Indigenous Compilation and the Archives of Early Native American Literatures. Kelly Wisecup
History (6 works) · Art (4 works) · Indigenous (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Art history (3 works) · Latin American history and culture (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Political science (3 works)