Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology Series
490 pages
27 photos, 1 figure, 1 map, 2 tables
Introduction: Bodies before Boas, Sport before the Laughter Left (Susan Brownell)
1. A “Special Olympics”: Testing Racial Strength and Endurance at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition (Nancy J. Parezo)
2. The “Physical Value” of Races and Nations: Anthropology and Athletics at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (Mark Dyreson)
3. Pierre de Coubertin’s Concepts of Race, Nation, and Civilization (Otto J. Schantz)
4. Anthropology Days, the Construction of Whiteness and American Imperialism in the Philippines (Gerald R. Gems)
5. “From Savagery to Civic Organization”: The Non-Participation of Canadian “Indians” in the “Anthropology Days” of the 1904 St. Louis Olympic Games (Christine M. O’Bonsawin)
6. “Leav[ing] the White[s] . . . Far Behind Them”: The Girls from Fort Shaw (Montana) Indian School, Basketball Champions of the 1904 World’s Fair (Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith)
7. Germans and Others at the “American Games”: Problems of National and International Representation at the 1904 Olympics (Suzuko Mousel Knott)
8. Greece and the 1904 “American” Olympics (Alexander Kitroeff)
9. From the Anthropology Days to the Anthropological Olympics (John Bale)
10. Olympic Anthropology Days and the Progress of Exclusion: Towards an Anthropology of Democracy (Henning Eichberg)
11. The Growth of Scientific Standards from “Anthropology Days” to Present Days (Jonathan Marks)
Afterword: Back to the Future (Susan Brownell)
Winner of the 2009 North American Society for Sport History (NASSH) Anthology Award in Sport History