@book {1487651, title = {Zuni, Hopi, Copan: Early Anthropology at Harvard, 1890{\textendash}1893}, year = {2023}, pages = {360}, publisher = {Peabody Museum Press and Dumbarton Oaks Publications}, organization = {Peabody Museum Press and Dumbarton Oaks Publications}, address = {Cambridge, Massachusetts}, abstract = {

Zuni, Hopi, Copan: Early Anthropology at Harvard, 1890{\textendash}1893\ publishes one hundred letters from\ John Gundy Owens\ to Deborah Harker Stratton, currently held in the\ Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology\ at Harvard University. Owens was one of the first graduate students in anthropology at Harvard; his poignant letters to {\textquotedblleft}Miss Debbie{\textquotedblright} trace a budding relationship of affection in late Victorian America and 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.

Tragically, Owens died at age twenty-seven in Copan; Stratton never married and kept the letters until her own death, nearly fifty years later. Introductory essays by\ Curtis M. Hinsley,\ Louis A. Hieb, and\ Barbara W. Fash\ contextualize the annotated letters and shed new light on early anthropological training in the United States.

}, url = {https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780873659154}, author = {John Gundy Owens}, editor = {Curtis M. Hinsley} }