A Companion to American Indian History (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Deloria, Philip J.; Salisbury, Neal

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A Companion to American Indian History captures the thematic breadth of Native American history over the last forty years. Twenty-five original essays by leading scholars in the field, both American Indian and non-American Indian, bring an exciting modern perspective to Native American histories that were at one time related exclusively by Euro-American settlers. * Contains 25 original essays by leading experts in Native American history. * Covers the breadth of American Indian history, including contacts with settlers, religion, family, economy, law, education, gender issues, and culture. * Surveys and evaluates the best scholarship on every important era and topic. * Summarizes current debates and anticipates future concerns.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 528
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781405143783
• Artikelnr.: 38284738

Autorenporträt

Philip J. Deloria is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and the Program in American Culture at the University of Michigan. A member of a prominent Dakota family, he received his PhD from Yale University in 1994. In addition to numerous articles and essays, he is the author of Playing Indian (1998). Neal Salisbury is Professor of History at Smith College. He is the author of Manitou and Providence: Indians, Europeans, and the Making of New England (1982), and co-author of The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People (fourth edition, 2000).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors vii
Introduction 1
1 Historiography 6
Philip J. Deloria
Part One: Contacts 25
2 First Contacts 27
John E. Kicza
3 Wag the Imperial Dog: Indians and Overseas Empires in North America,
1650-1776 46
Gregory Evans Dowd
4 Health, Disease, and Demography 68
Russell Thornton
Part Two: Native Practice and Belief 85
5 Native American Systems of Knowledge 87
Clara Sue Kidwell
6 Native American Spirituality: History, Theory, and Reformulation 103
Lee Irwin
7 Indians and Christianity 121
Willard Hughes Rollings
8 Kinship, Family Kindreds, and Community 139
Jay Miller
9 American Indian Warfare: The Cycles of Conflict and the Militarization of
Native North America 154
Tom Holm
Part Three: Language, Identity, and Expression 173
10 Languages: Linguistic Change and the Study of Indian Languages from
Colonial Times to the Present 175
Regna Darnell
11 Performative Traditions in American Indian History 193
L. G. Moses
12 Indigenous Art: Creating Value and Sharing Beauty 209
Nancy Parezo
13 Native American Literatures 234
P. Jane Hafen
14 Wanted: More Histories of Indian Identity 248
Alexandra Harmon
Part Four: Exchange and Social Relations 267
15 Labor and Exchange in American Indian History 269
Patricia Albers
16 The Nature of Conquest: Indians, Americans, and Environmental History
287
Louis S. Warren
17 Gender in Native America 307
Betty Bell
18 Métis, Mestizo, and Mixed-Blood 321
Jennifer Brown and Theresa Schenck
19 Transforming Outsiders: Captivity, Adoption, and Slavery Reconsidered
339
Pauline Turner Strong
20 Translation and Cultural Brokerage 357
Eric Hinderaker
Part Five: Governmental Relations 377
21 Federal and State Policies and American Indians 379
Donald Fixico
22 Native Americans and the United States, Canada, and Mexico 397
R. David Edmunds
23 American Indian Education: by Indians versus for Indians 422
K. Tsianina Lomawaima
24 Indian Law, Sovereignty, and State Law: Native People and the Law 441
Sidney L. Harring
25 Sovereignty 460
Taiaiake Alfred
Bibliography 475
Index 495

Rezensionen

"Philip Deloria and Neal Salisbury have brought together some ofthe best scholars writing about American Indian peoples and giventhem topics that both reflect and expand the new scholarship onIndian history and culture. The volume is a virtual compass forreaders and scholars interested in American Indians." RichardWhite, Stanford University

"If you need to know where the practice of American Indianhistory has been; better yet, if you need and want to catch up withwhere it's going, you will need A Companion to American IndianHistory. Each essay, in its own right, gives an importantstylistic and substantive shove to the new writing of AmericanIndian history while it offers the latest, best word in dutifulexegetical historiography. The Companion is the bridge-building,critical, enlightened, reflexive work the editors hoped for, andmore, since its bridge-dynamiting challenges to Indian history aregraceful and graciously delivered." Rayna Green, National Museumof American History.

"Historians are exceedingly well served by this companionon Native peoples of the USA, north-western Mexico, Canada andWestern Greenland." Antiquity

"This volume testifies to the strength and comprehensiveness ofthe "Blackwell Companions to American History" series... Theselection of writers and topics is excellent, and the quality ofthe historiographical essays matches or supersedes the spate ofrecently published books that have attempted similar tasks... Theessays go beyond a mere listing of sources to intelligentlyintegrate shifts in interpretation over time and to indicateweaknesses in the existing canon of knowledge. Academicresearchers, general readers, and members of Native Americancommunities can all profit from these sophisticated essays... thisreference work deserves a place in all libraries, and it should bewidely used to spaark further debate." Choice

"I heartily endorse this anthology as a textbook for graduateand undergraduate classes, and as a refresher for anyone seriouslyinterested in Native American studies." John H. Moore, Journalof the Royal Anthropological Institute