Exploring Human Worlds: A History of the School of American Research
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Author: Elliott, Melinda
Publisher: School of American Research
Pub Date: 1991
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good. Binding tight. No marks, tears, bends or folds. Light edge and corner wear. Some scuffing to front cover at spine edge.
Notes: Institutional History. The SAR was established on December 30, 1907, as the School of American Archaeology, by the Archaeological Institute of America, to conduct research and train students in “archaeology”. The first director was Edgar Lee Hewett (1961946). It was ten years later the name was changed to the School of American Research. Without the SAR there would be no Laboratory of Anthropology (founded 1927, see https://joethebookguy.com/shop/archaeology/a-laboratory-for-anthropology-science-and-romanticism-in-the-american-southwest-1846-1930/). Sylvanus Morley was the second director. A subsequent volume, A Peculiar Alchemy, takes the history of the SAR to 2007. Douglas Schwartz (1929-2016) was the director who really brought the SAR (now the School for Advanced Research) to prominence and financial stability, but alienated his co-workers and was sidelined.
