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American Indian persistence and resurgence / edited by Karl Kroeber

Contributor(s): Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 1994Description: iv, 261 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0822314592
  • 0822314878
  • 9780822314592
  • 9780822314875
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: American Indian persistence and resurgence.DDC classification:
  • 306/.08997 20
LOC classification:
  • E98 .E85 A48 1994
Available additional physical forms:
  • Also issued online
Contents:
Native American resistance and renewal / Karl Kroeber -- The nations of a state / Edward H. Spicer, preface by Rosamond B. Spicer -- An interview with Jack Salzman, Director of the Columbia University Center for American Culture Studies / Karl Kroeber -- The Navajo nightway and the western gaze / William Overstreet -- Terms of assimilation: legislating subjectivity in the emerging nation / Priscilla Wald -- Plains Indian native literatures / Douglas R. Parks and Raymond J. DeMallie -- Transitional narratives and cultural continuity / Elaine A. Jahner -- Francis LaFlesche's "The song of the flying crow" and the limits of ethnography / Jarold Ramsey -- Europe's Indian, America's Jew: Modiano and Vizenor / Jonathan Boyarin -- Manifest manners: the long gaze of Christopher Columbus / Gerald Vizenor -- If texts are prayers, what do Wintu want? / Linda Ainsworth -- December 1890-1990 / Wendy Rose -- Retrieving Osceola's head, Okemah, Oklahoma, June 1985 / Wendy Rose -- Own / Katharine Pearce
Summary: "This collection celebrates the resurgence of Native Americans within the cultural landscape of the United States. During the past quarter century, the Native American population in the United States has seen an astonishing demographic growth reaching beyond all biological probability as increasing numbers of Americans desire to admit or to claim Native American ancestry. This volume illustrates a unique moment in history, as unprecedented numbers of Native Americans seek to create a powerful, flexible sense of cultural identity. Diverse commentators, including literary critics, anthropologists, ethnohistorians, poets and a novelist address persistent issues facing Native Americans and Native American studies today. The future of White-Indian relation, the viability of Pan-Indianism, tensions between Native Americans and North American anthropologists, and new devlopments in ethnohistory are among the topics discussed. The survival of Native Americans as recorded in this collection, an expanded edition of a special issue of boundary 2, brings into focus the dynamically adaptive values of Native American culture. Native Americans' persistence in U.S. culture - not disappearing under the pressure to assimilate or through genocidal warfare - reminds us of the extent to which any living culture is defined by the process of transformation."--Book cover
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks E98 .E85 A48 1994 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001511871

"A boundary 2 book."

All but one essay reprinted from Boundary 2, v. 19, no. 3

Includes bibliographical references and index

Native American resistance and renewal / Karl Kroeber -- The nations of a state / Edward H. Spicer, preface by Rosamond B. Spicer -- An interview with Jack Salzman, Director of the Columbia University Center for American Culture Studies / Karl Kroeber -- The Navajo nightway and the western gaze / William Overstreet -- Terms of assimilation: legislating subjectivity in the emerging nation / Priscilla Wald -- Plains Indian native literatures / Douglas R. Parks and Raymond J. DeMallie -- Transitional narratives and cultural continuity / Elaine A. Jahner -- Francis LaFlesche's "The song of the flying crow" and the limits of ethnography / Jarold Ramsey -- Europe's Indian, America's Jew: Modiano and Vizenor / Jonathan Boyarin -- Manifest manners: the long gaze of Christopher Columbus / Gerald Vizenor -- If texts are prayers, what do Wintu want? / Linda Ainsworth -- December 1890-1990 / Wendy Rose -- Retrieving Osceola's head, Okemah, Oklahoma, June 1985 / Wendy Rose -- Own / Katharine Pearce

"This collection celebrates the resurgence of Native Americans within the cultural landscape of the United States. During the past quarter century, the Native American population in the United States has seen an astonishing demographic growth reaching beyond all biological probability as increasing numbers of Americans desire to admit or to claim Native American ancestry. This volume illustrates a unique moment in history, as unprecedented numbers of Native Americans seek to create a powerful, flexible sense of cultural identity. Diverse commentators, including literary critics, anthropologists, ethnohistorians, poets and a novelist address persistent issues facing Native Americans and Native American studies today. The future of White-Indian relation, the viability of Pan-Indianism, tensions between Native Americans and North American anthropologists, and new devlopments in ethnohistory are among the topics discussed. The survival of Native Americans as recorded in this collection, an expanded edition of a special issue of boundary 2, brings into focus the dynamically adaptive values of Native American culture. Native Americans' persistence in U.S. culture - not disappearing under the pressure to assimilate or through genocidal warfare - reminds us of the extent to which any living culture is defined by the process of transformation."--Book cover

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