Description: Zuni, Hopi, Copan publishes one hundred annotated letters from John Gundy Owens--one of the first graduate students in anthropology at Harvard--to Deborah Harker Stratton. They offer vivid, highly entertaining accounts of his fieldwork at Zuni pueblo in New Mexico, Hopi mesa villages in Arizona, and the Maya site of Copan in Honduras.
Brief description: Curtis M. Hinsley is Regents' Professor, Emeritus, of American History at Northern Arizona University.
Review Quotes: Not just an informative read, [but]...also a quite enjoyable one. [This book] sheds light not just on the early days of U.S. anthropology and archaeology, but also on life during that time in America.--Keith W. Kintigh "Journal of Arizona History" (1/8/2025 12:00:00 AM)