A Bowdoin Van Riper
Biographic Data
| ID | 968312 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Bowdoin Van Riper |
| GIVEN NAMES | A Bowdoin |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Riper |
| SIGNATURE | VAN RIPER A B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Martha's Vineyard Museum |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Inventing the Cave Man
Contemporary Westerns
Marketing, Monsters, and Music
The ABC Movie of the Week
Flying Across America
Reviewed by: Flying Across America: The Airline Passenger Experience A. Bowdoin van Riper (bio) Flying Across America: The Airline Passenger Experience. By Daniel L. Rust. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2009. Pp. viii+260. $45. Machines are made to be used, but histories of technology rarely capture—much less focus on—the user’s experience. The smell of purple-inked copies fresh from a spirit duplicator, the syncopated rhythm of a rotary p…
Blending Genres, Bending Time
Western steampunk uses fantastic images of technology-out-of-time to create critical commentary on the notion of progress and the inherent tension between “civilization” and nature. As a hybrid subgenre it uses the steampunk aesthetic to introduce technology-as-spectacle—breathtaking, larger than life, focus rather than backdrop—and traffics in fetishism, making technology the stuff of fantasy and obsession. Through the steampunk Western, we see …
Geology and Religious Sentiment
Forbidden Archaeology's Impact
Digging for Dollars
Men among the Mammoths
A. Bowdoin Van Riper provides an account of how Victorian scientists raised and resolved the question of human antiquity. During the early part of the 19th century, scientists divided the history of the earth into a series of former worlds, populated by mammoths and other prehistoric animals, and a modern world, in which humans lived. According to this view, the human race was no older than 6000 years. The discovery of tools with mammoth bones, h…
The Preadamite Theory and the Marriage of Science and Religion . David N. Livingstone
William Diller Matthew, Paleontologist
Fox at the Wood's Edge
Pitt Rivers
James David Forbes
A History of Archaeological Thought . Bruce G. Trigger
An Ancient Air
Men among the Mammoths
A. Bowdoin Van Riper provides an account of how Victorian scientists raised and resolved the question of human antiquity. During the early part of the 19th century, scientists divided the history of the earth into a series of former worlds, populated by mammoths and other prehistoric animals, and a modern world, in which humans lived. According to this view, the human race was no older than 6000 years. The discovery of tools with mammoth bones, h…
Inventing the Cave Man
An Ancient Air
James David Forbes
A History of Archaeological Thought . Bruce G. Trigger
Fox at the Wood's Edge
Pitt Rivers
The Preadamite Theory and the Marriage of Science and Religion . David N. Livingstone
William Diller Matthew, Paleontologist
Men among the Mammoths
A. Bowdoin Van Riper provides an account of how Victorian scientists raised and resolved the question of human antiquity. During the early part of the 19th century, scientists divided the history of the earth into a series of former worlds, populated by mammoths and other prehistoric animals, and a modern world, in which humans lived. According to this view, the human race was no older than 6000 years. The discovery of tools with mammoth bones, h…
Digging for Dollars
Geology and Religious Sentiment
Forbidden Archaeology's Impact
Blending Genres, Bending Time
Western steampunk uses fantastic images of technology-out-of-time to create critical commentary on the notion of progress and the inherent tension between “civilization” and nature. As a hybrid subgenre it uses the steampunk aesthetic to introduce technology-as-spectacle—breathtaking, larger than life, focus rather than backdrop—and traffics in fetishism, making technology the stuff of fantasy and obsession. Through the steampunk Western, we see …
Flying Across America
Reviewed by: Flying Across America: The Airline Passenger Experience A. Bowdoin van Riper (bio) Flying Across America: The Airline Passenger Experience. By Daniel L. Rust. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2009. Pp. viii+260. $45. Machines are made to be used, but histories of technology rarely capture—much less focus on—the user’s experience. The smell of purple-inked copies fresh from a spirit duplicator, the syncopated rhythm of a rotary p…
The ABC Movie of the Week
Contemporary Westerns
Marketing, Monsters, and Music
Inventing the Cave Man
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