Indian and Spanish Selected Writings

Description

Author: Goggin, John M. (1916-1963)

Publisher: University of Miami Press (Coral Gables, FL)

Pub Date: 1964

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair.  Binding tight.  No tears, bends or folds.  Without dust jacket, as issued.  Previous owner’s name, location, and date on front pastedown.  Upper rear cover corner bumped, worn.  One small smudge on side text block.  One small bump on bottom front cover edge, near spine foot.

Notes: Festschrift.  Limited edition, subscribed printing (182 subscribers listed, including previous owner.  Lots of famous names here.).   A collection of 18 papers BY John M. Goggin, rather than a collection of writings by others.  Goggin was a student of Donald Brand at the University of New Mexico, where he received his B.A. in 1938, and began his career studying the Pueblo Indians.  He was, for a time, the curator at Coronado State Monument (Kuaua).   He later spent the bulk of his professional career in Florida, founding the first Department of Anthropology in Florida, at the University of Florida, and was a founder of the Florida Anthropological Society.   The volume is divided into 3 parts–Indian ethnology (Pueblo, Cheyenne, Florida), Florida Archeology, and Latin American Anthropology (Mexico, the Bahamas, underwater archeology).  Goggin died of cancer at 46.