A Companion to the Anthropology of American Indians - BIOLSI T THOMAS
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The status of American Indians has long been rooted in a view of Indians as members of indigenous polities with distinct cultures. Often, these cultures have been characterized by dominant colonial authorities as 'savage' or 'primitive, ' and it is the discipline of anthropology that, willingly and wittingly, or not, helped to make the idea of 'the primitive' into a social reality. Consequently, the 'tribal slot' inhabited by American Indians - with both its benefits and its oppressions - is difficult to imagine without the discipline of anthropology. A Companion to the Anthropology of…mehr

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The status of American Indians has long been rooted in a view of Indians as members of indigenous polities with distinct cultures. Often, these cultures have been characterized by dominant colonial authorities as 'savage' or 'primitive, ' and it is the discipline of anthropology that, willingly and wittingly, or not, helped to make the idea of 'the primitive' into a social reality. Consequently, the 'tribal slot' inhabited by American Indians - with both its benefits and its oppressions - is difficult to imagine without the discipline of anthropology. A Companion to the Anthropology of American Indians contains 27 original contributions by leading scholars who work actively as researchers in American Indian communities, or on the topic of American Indians. The book summarizes the state of anthropological knowledge of Indian peoples, as well as the history that got us to this point. Treated here is the full range of American Indian anthropology: from ecological and political-economic questions to topics concerning religion, language, and expressive culture. Each chapter provides definitive coverage of its topic while situating ethnographic and ethnohistorical data in a broader framework. This framework includes the linked histories of American Indians and anthropology, the role of continued native resistance in changing both the situation of Indian people and the content of anthropology, and the potential role of anthropology in an anti-colonial project that speaks to the pressing concerns of contemporary Indians.
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Thomas Biolsi is Professor of Native American Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. Among his publications are Deadliest Enemies: Law and Race Relations on and Off Rosebud Reservation (2007/2001), Indians and Anthropologists: Vine Deloria, Jr., and the Critique of Anthropology (edited with Larry Zimmerman, 1997), and Organizing the Lakota: The Political Economy of the New Deal on Pine Ridge and Rosebud Reservations (1992).
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"Biolsi has produced a rich and comprehensive overview of thefield by drawing on senior figures and younger scholars, academicsand public intellectuals, and Native and non-Native voices. Thisvolume is required reading for anyone wishing to enter, revisit, oradvance the practice of Native American anthropology."
Philip Deloria, University of Michigan

"This invaluable volume offers the perspectives of individualswhose intellectual, social, emotional, and pragmatic commitment tobetter understanding our world have earned the respect andattention of Native and non-Native audiences."
Tsianina Lomawaima, University of Arizona

"This is a sterling compilation, expertly edited, thatinterrogates the dynamic and often contentious relationship betweenindigenous peoples and anthropologists."
David Wilkins, University of Minnesota