New Perspectives on Native North America

by Kan, Sergei; Strong, Pauline Turner; Fogelson, Raymond

• ISBN13: 9780803278301
• ISBN10: 0803278306
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-05-01
• Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr

Summary

View Table of Contents, read an excerpt, and see a list of contributors In this volume some of the leading scholars working in Native North America explore contemporary perspectives on Native culture, history, and representation. Written in honor of the anthropologist Raymond D. Fogelson, the volume charts the currents of contemporary scholarship while offering an invigorating challenge to researchers in the field. The essays employ a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches and range widely across time and space. The introduction and first section consider the origins and legacies of various strands of interpretation, while the second part examines the relationship among culture, power, and creativity. The third part focuses on the cultural construction and experience of history, and the volume closes with essays on identity, difference, and appropriation in several historical and cultural contexts. Aimed at a broad interdisciplinary audience, the volume offers an excellent overview of contemporary perspectives on Native peoples. Sergei A. Kan is a professor of anthropology and Native American studies at Dartmouth College. He is the editor ofStrangers to Relatives: The Adoption and Naming of Anthropologists in Native North America(Nebraska 2001), co-editor ofComing to Shore: Northwest Coast Ethnology, Traditions, and Visions(Nebraska 2004), and the author ofMemory Eternal: Tlingit Culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity. Pauline Turner Strong is an associate professor of anthropology and gender studies at the University of TexasAustin. Her publications includeCaptive Selves, Captivating Others: The Politics and Poetics of Colonial American Captivity Narrativesand a series of influential articles on the representation of indigenous peoples. The contributors include: Jeffrey D. Anderson, Mary Druke Becker, Margaret Bender, Robert Brightman, Jennifer S.H. Brown, Thomas Buckley, Raymond A. Bucko, S.J., Regna Darnell, Raymond DeMallie, David W. Dinwoodie, Frederick W. Gleach, Michael E. Harkin, Joseph C. Jastrzembski, Sergei A. Kan, Robert E. Moore, Peter Nabokov, Larry Nesper, Jean M. O'Brien, Pauline Turner Strong, Greg Urban, and Barrik Van Winkle.

Author Biography

Sergei A. Kan is a professor of anthropology and Native American studies at Dartmouth College. He is the editor of Strangers to Relatives: The Adoption and Naming of Anthropologists in Native North America (Nebraska 2001), co-editor of Coming to Shore: Northwest Coast Ethnology, Traditions, and Visions (Nebraska 2004), and the author of Memory Eternal: Tlingit Culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity. Pauline Turner Strong is an associate professor of anthropology and gender studies at the University of Texas–Austin. Her publications include Captive Selves, Captivating Others: The Politics and Poetics of Colonial American Captivity Narratives and a series of influential articles on the representation of indigenous peoples.



The contributors include: Jeffrey D. Anderson, Mary Druke Becker, Margaret Bender, Robert Brightman, Jennifer S.H. Brown, Thomas Buckley, Raymond A. Bucko, S.J., Regna Darnell, Raymond DeMallie, David W. Dinwoodie, Frederick W. Gleach, Michael E. Harkin, Joseph C. Jastrzembski, Sergei A. Kan, Robert E. Moore, Peter Nabokov, Larry Nesper, Jean M. O’Brien, Pauline Turner Strong, Greg Urban, and Barrik Van Winkle.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xi
Sergei A. Kan
Pauline Turner Strong
PART ONE Perspectives: On the Genealogy and Legacy of an Anthropological Tradition
Keeping the Faith: A Legacy of Native American Ethnography, Ethnohistory, and Psychology	3	(14)
Regna Darnell
Fields of Dreams: Revisiting A. I. Hallowell and the Berens River Ojibwe	17	(25)
Jennifer S. H. Brown
Framing the Anomalous: Stoneclad, Sequoyah, and Cherokee Ethnoliteracy	42	(23)
Margaret Bender
PART TWO Cultures: On Persons and Power, Rituals and Creativity
Power as the Transmission of Culture	65	(33)
Greg Urban
Ironies of Articulating Continuity at Lac du Flambeau	98	(24)
Larry Nesper
The Poetics of Tropes and Dreams in Arapaho Ghost Dance Songs	122	(40)
Jeffrey D. Anderson
Night Thoughts and Night Sweats, Ethnohistory and Ethnohumor: The Quaker Shaker Meets the Lakota Sweat Lodge	162	(23)
Raymond A. Bucko
Self-consciousness, Ceremonialism, and the Problem of the Present in the Anthropology of Native North America	185	(26)
Robert E. Moore
PART THREE Histories: On Varieties of Temporal Experience and Historical Representation
Native Authorship in Northwestern California	211	(28)
Thomas Buckley
The Sioux at the Time of European Contact: An Ethnohistorical Problem	239	(22)
Raymond J. DeMallie
Proto-Ethnologists in North America	261	(24)
Mary Druke Becker
Folklore, Personal Narratives, and Ethno-Ethnohistory	285	(25)
Joseph C. Jastrzembski
Events and Nonevents on the Tlingit/Russian/American Colonial Frontier, 1802--1879	310	(17)
Sergei A. Kan
Time and the Individual in Native North America	327	(24)
David W. Dinwoodie
PART FOUR Representations: On Selves and Others, Hybridities and Appropriations
Culture and Culture Theory in Native North America	351	(44)
Robert Brightman
Cannibals in the Mountains: Washoe Teratology and the Donner Party	395	(19)
Barrik Van Winkle
``Vanishing'' Indians in Nineteenth-Century New England: Local Historians' Erasure of Still-Present Indian Peoples	414	(19)
Jean M. O'Brien
Pocahontas: An Exercise in Mythmaking and Marketing	433	(23)
Frederic W. Gleach
``I'm an Old Cowhand on the Banks of the Seine'': Representations of Indians and Le Far West in Parisian Commercial Culture	456	(18)
Michael E. Harkin
``To Light the Fire of Our Desire'': Primitivism in the Camp Fire Girls	474	(15)
Pauline Turner Strong
Afterword	489	(7)
Peter Nabokov
Contributors	496	(5)
Index	501