Joy Porter

Native American Freemasonry (eBook, ePUB)

Associationalism and Performance in America

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Freemasonry has played a significant role in the history of Native Americans since the colonial era-a role whose extent and meaning are fully explored for the first time in this book. The overarching concern of Native American Freemasonry is with how Masonry met specific social and personal needs of Native Americans, a theme developed across three periods: the revolutionary era, the last third of the nineteenth century, and the years following the First World War. Joy Porter positions Freemasonry within its historical context, examining its social and political impact as a transatlantic phenomenon at the heart of the colonizing process. She then explores its meaning for many key Native leaders, for ethnic groups that sought to make connections through it, and for the bulk of its American membership-the white Anglo-Saxon Protestant middle class. Through research gleaned from archives in New York, Philadelphia, Oklahoma, California, and London, Porter shows how Freemasonry's performance of ritual provided an accessible point of entry to Native Americans and how over time, Freemasonry became a significant avenue for the exchange and co-creation of cultural forms by Indians and non-Indians.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496219053
• Artikelnr.: 59614129

Autorenporträt

Joy Porter is a professor of Indigenous history at the University of Hull, UK. She is the author of Native American Environmentalism (Nebraska, 2014) and To Be Indian: Indian Identity and the Life of Arthur Caswell Parker, the coeditor of The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature, and the editor of Competing Voices from Native America and Place and Native American Indian History and Culture.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
A Note on Terms
1. Approaching Native American Freemasonry, Part One
2. Approaching Native American Freemasonry, Part Two
3. A History of Freemasonry: From Europe to the United States
4. Freemasonry as Ornamentalism: Class, Race, and Social Hierarchy
5. The Attractions of Freemasonry to Indians and Others, Part One
6. The Attractions of Freemasonry to Indians and Others, Part Two
7. Native American Freemasons: The Revolutionary Era
8. Native American Freemasons: The "Settlement" of the West and the Civil
War Era
9. Native American Freemasons: The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
10. On Television's Deathblow to Fraternalism: Understanding
Associationalism and the Declining Role of Fraternalism in American Life
Notes
Bibliography
Index