James Collins

Understanding Tolowa Histories

Western Hegemonies and Native American Responses

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Native Tolowa of Northern California were displaced and nearly destroyed in the nineteenth century, but they have since struggled to reclaim their language and collective identity. Today they are emerging as a cohesive cultural and political group. In Understanding Tolowa Histories, James Collins presents a complex historical inquiry into the Tolowa, Native American responses to U.S. domination, and Enlightenment political legacies. He incisively analyzes the relation between cultural otherness and political-economic subjugation, the complexities of history and identity, and the discursive dynamics of claiming a place and resisting displacement. In the process, he situates the Tolowa in the larger context of U.S. and Indian histories while developing a critique of contemporary anthropology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 149mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 331g
• ISBN-13: 9780415912082
• ISBN-10: 0415912083
• Artikelnr.: 22138428

Autorenporträt

James Collins is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Albany.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Tolowa Histories: Inclusions and Exclusions in Making a People and a
Past 2. Tolowa De-Termination: Histories after the Cataclysm, 1850-1900 3.
Tolowa De-Termination: Conscripts of Western Civilization, 1910-1965 4.
Rights, Place Claims, and Power: A Western Legacy 5. Changing Conditions of
Place and Identity in Native North America 6. Discourse of Place and
Expropriation 7. A Modern Politics of Place and Identity Conclusion:
Contested Places, Divided Subjects