A Question of Authorship
A. M. Stephen's Catalogue of the Keam Collection [1884]
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7897247 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Louis A Hieb (University of Washington), Susan E Diggle (University of New Mexico) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 69 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 401-423 |
| Publication date | 2004-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | KIVA (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-1940 • E-ISSN: 2051-6177 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00231940.2004.11758499 |
| OpenAlex | W2495017458 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 15 |
The first large-scale commercialization of antiquities in the Southwest began with the “Catalogue of Keam's Cañon Collection of Relics of the Ancient Builders of the Southwestern Table Lands.” Compiled and written by Alexander M. Stephen, the catalogue accompanied a collection of ceramics Thomas V. Keam offered to the Smithsonian Institution on the occasion of the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition in New Orleans in 1884. Internal and external evidence is presented to support the argument that while Stephen developed the descriptive and taxonomic framework of the catalogue, the explanations of symbolism were taken from narratives recorded by Jeremiah Sullivan. Stephen and Sullivan represent different perspectives in the formative decade of American anthropology, a decade dominated by the social evolutionary paradigm of Lewis Henry Morgan. The catalogue was instrumental in the sale of the pottery collection in 1892. The collection is now located in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University
Archaeology · Argument (complex analysis) · Art · Art history · Centennial · Exposition (narrative) · Literature · Narrative · Pottery · Sociology · Anthropology · Archaeological Research and Protection · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Classics · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |