Ktaadn: Thoreau the anthropologist

Abstract

As a research librarian for American Indian materials at The New York Public Library, I was aware several years ago of Robert F. Sayre's book, Thoreau and the American Indian, but I hadn't, until this spring, looked at it seriously. Pondering a possible research topic, I thought, initially, of exploring an early nineteenth century American theorist in ethnological theory, possibly a lesser-known figure than Lewis Henry Morgan ~ a Henry Rowe Schoolcraft or a Ephraim George Squier. Somehow I stumbled on the fact not