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    "pk": 25013,
    "title": "Ethnographies of Imperial Extraction: Creating and Cataloguing American Antiquity from Classical Archeology in the Nineteenth Century",
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    "abstract": "<p>This article seeks to trace historical developments in the American Southwest alongside the professionalization of archeological pursuits between the 1870s and the 1890s, while paying attention to uses of Old World antiquity as models. The bulk of this article will center the movement of the Stevenson collection introduced to the US National Museum (the Smithsonian) in its transition from specimen to cross-cultural currency between institutions and governments. My methodology is primarily decolonial in revisiting the documentation methods, especially cataloging, involved in the collection of Indigenous material culture in the Southwest. The framing of Native materials as imitative served as a key form of Indigenous dispossession that administratively categorized peoples on behalf of colonial governments. The discursive connections drawn between Native American materials and classical antiquity are also worth exploring further, inasmuch as these materials served not just as parts of a hierarchical comparative model but also moved through institutional and international exchanges in the formation of national archaeologies that furthered imperial conceptions of time and history. Unpacking the centrality of nationalism in the pursuit of collecting should serve as a starting point in reconsidering the ethics of material extraction from source communities. Understanding the relationship between salvage ethnography and the cultural exchange of archeological specimens, including through extraction, points to the continued relevance of how institutions continue to view and handle these materials today.</p>",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
        "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial  4.0",
        "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0",
        "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.",
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0"
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Museums"
        },
        {
            "word": "salvage anthropology"
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        {
            "word": "archeology"
        },
        {
            "word": "Pueblo"
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        {
            "word": "New Mexico"
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        {
            "word": "Southwest United States"
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        {
            "first_name": "Kendall",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Lovely",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "UC Santa Barbara",
            "department": "History"
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2024-07-01T00:52:55+03:00",
    "date_accepted": "2025-06-17T18:25:42.883000+03:00",
    "date_published": "2025-12-07T21:36:00+03:00",
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