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1. | | Title: Real Indians: identity and the survival of Native AmericaAuthor: Garroutte, Eva Marie 1962- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology | Native American Studies | Native American Ethnicity | History | American StudiesPublisher's Description: At the dawn of the twenty-first century, America finds itself on the brink of a new racial consciousness. The old, unquestioned confidence with which individuals can be classified (as embodied, for instance, in previous U.S. census categories) has been eroded. In its place are shifting paradigms and . . . [more]Similar Items | 2. | | Title: Immigration and the political economy of home: West Indian Brooklyn and American Indian Minneapolis, 1945-1992 Author: Buff, Rachel 1961- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Ethnic Studies | American Studies | Native American Studies | Native American Ethnicity | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: Rachel Buff's innovative study of festivals in two American communities launches a substantive inquiry into the nature of citizenship, race, and social power. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork as well as archival research, Buff compares American Indian powwows in Minneapolis with the West Indian Ame . . . [more]Similar Items | 3. | | Title: Disciplined hearts: history, identity, and depression in an American Indian communityAuthor: O'Nell, Theresa DeLeane 1957- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology | Folklore and Mythology | Native American Ethnicity | Native American StudiesPublisher's Description: "This is a good place for your work. Depression is a big problem here. About 70-80% of our people are depressed." When she arrived at the Flathead Reservation in Montana to start an ethnographic study of depression, medical anthropologist Theresa DeLeane O'Nell repeatedly encountered such statements . . . [more]Similar Items | 4. | | Title: As we are now: mixblood essays on race and identityAuthor: Penn, W. S 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Ethnic Studies | Native American Studies | American Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Social Problems | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: The thirteen contributors to As We Are Now invite readers to explore with them the untamed territory of race and mixblood identity in North America. A "mixblood," according to editor W.S. Penn, recognizes that his or her identity comes not from distinct and separable strains of ancestry but from the . . . [more]Similar Items | 5. | | Title: Aboriginal slavery on the Northwest Coast of North AmericaAuthor: Donald, Leland 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Pacific Rim StudiesPublisher's Description: With his investigation of slavery on the Northwest Coast of North America, Leland Donald makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the aboriginal cultures of this area. He shows that Northwest Coast servitude, relatively neglected by researchers in the past, fits an appropriate cross- . . . [more]Similar Items | 6. | | Title: Spirit wars: Native North American religions in the age of nation buildingAuthor: Niezen, Ronald Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Religion | Cultural Anthropology | Native American Studies | Religion | American Studies | AnthropologyPublisher's Description: Spirit Wars is an exploration of the ways in which the destruction of spiritual practices and beliefs of native peoples in North America has led to conditions of collective suffering--a process sometimes referred to as cultural genocide. Ronald Niezen approaches this topic through wide-ranging case . . . [more]Similar Items | 7. | | Title: Surviving through the days: translations of Native California stories and songs: a California Indian reader Author: Luthin, Herbert W 1954- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | American Studies | Native American Studies | American LiteraturePublisher's Description: This anthology of treasures from the oral literature of Native California, assembled by an editor admirably sensitive to language, culture, and history, will delight scholars and general readers alike. Herbert Luthin's generous selection of stories, anecdotes, myths, reminiscences, and songs is draw . . . [more]Similar Items | 8. | | Title: American Indian treaties: the history of a political anomalyAuthor: Prucha, Francis Paul Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Native American Studies | LawPublisher's Description: American Indian affairs are much in the public mind today - hotly contested debates over such issues as Indian fishing rights, land claims, and reservation gambling hold our attention. While the unique legal status of American Indians rests on the historical treaty relationship between Indian tribes . . . [more]Similar Items | 9. | | Title: Frontiers of historical imagination: narrating the European conquest of native America, 1890-1990Author: Klein, Kerwin Lee 1961- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | California and the West | American Studies | Anthropology | United States History | Intellectual History | Postcolonial StudiesPublisher's Description: The American frontier, a potent symbol since Europeans first stepped ashore on North America, serves as the touchstone for Kerwin Klein's analysis of the narrating of history. Klein explores the traditions through which historians, philosophers, anthropologists, and literary critics have understood . . . [more]Similar Items | 10. | | | 11. | | Title: Countering colonization: Native American women and Great Lakes missions, 1630-1900 Author: Devens, Carol Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Native American Studies | American Studies | Native American Ethnicity | Women's Studies | ReligionPublisher's Description: With Countering Colonization , Carol Devens offers a well-documented, revisionary history of Native American women. From the time of early Jesuit missionaries to the late nineteenth century, Devens brings Ojibwa, Cree, and Montagnais-Naskapi women of the Upper Great Lakes region to the fore. Far fro . . . [more]Similar Items | 12. | | Title: For those who come after: a study of Native American autobiography Author: Krupat, Arnold Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Native American Studies | AutobiographyPublisher's Description: Drawing on the life stories of Native Americans solicited by historians during the 19th century and, later, by anthropologists concerned with amplifying the cultural record, Arnold Krupat examines the Indian autobiography as a specific genre of American writing. Similar Items | 13. | | Title: Indian traffic: identities in question in colonial and postcolonial India Author: Roy, Parama Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Postcolonial Studies | Literary Theory and Criticism | South Asia | Gender StudiesPublisher's Description: The continual, unpredictable, and often violent "traffic" between identities in colonial and postcolonial India is the focus of Parama Roy's stimulating and original book. Mimicry has been commonly recognized as an important colonial model of bourgeois/elite subject formation, and Roy examines its p . . . [more]Similar Items | 14. | | Title: Keeping slug woman alive: a holistic approach to American Indian textsAuthor: Sarris, Greg Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Native American Studies | Anthropology | Native American Ethnicity | Cultural Anthropology | Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | American Literature | American StudiesPublisher's Description: This remarkable collection of eight essays offers a rare perspective on the issue of cross-cultural communication. Greg Sarris is concerned with American Indian texts, both oral and written, as well as with other American Indian cultural phenomena such as basketry and religion. His essays cover a ra . . . [more]Similar Items | 15. | | Title: Standing ground: Yurok Indian spirituality, 1850-1990Author: Buckley, Thomas C. T Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: American Studies | Anthropology | Native American EthnicityPublisher's Description: This colorful, richly textured account of spiritual training and practice within an American Indian social network emphasizes narrative over analysis. Thomas Buckley's foregrounding of Yurok narratives creates one major level of dialogue in an innovative ethnography that features dialogue as its cen . . . [more]Similar Items | 16. | | Title: Conquests and historical identities in California, 1769-1936Author: Haas, Lisbeth Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Californian and Western History | Ethnic Studies | Latino Studies | American Studies | Gender Studies | California and the West | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: Spanning the period between Spanish colonization and the early twentieth century, this well-argued and convincing study examines the histories of Spanish and American conquests, and of ethnicity, race, and community in southern California. Lisbeth Haas draws on a diverse body of source materials (mi . . . [more]Similar Items | 17. | | Title: Islands in the city: West Indian migration to New YorkAuthor: Foner, Nancy 1945- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Social ProblemsPublisher's Description: This collection of original essays draws on a variety of theoretical perspectives, methodologies, and empirical data to explore the effects of West Indian migration and to develop analytic frameworks to examine it. Similar Items | 18. | | Title: Blood politics: race, culture, and identity in the Cherokee Nation of OklahomaAuthor: Sturm, Circe 1967- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Native American Studies | Native American Ethnicity | African American StudiesPublisher's Description: Circe Sturm takes a bold and original approach to one of the most highly charged and important issues in the United States today: race and national identity. Focusing on the Oklahoma Cherokee, she examines how Cherokee identity is socially and politically constructed, and how that process is embedde . . . [more]Similar Items | 19. | | Title: Roots of North Indian Shīʿism in Iran and Iraq: religion and state in Awadh, 1722-1859 Author: Cole, Juan Ricardo Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Asian StudiesPublisher's Description: In this pioneering study of the Twelver Shi'i branch of Islam prevalent in Iraq and Iran, J. R. I. Cole traces the influence of Shi'i rule on the development of religious communalism and conflict in the North Indian State of Awadh (Oudh). He also examines the relationship of the Shi'i clergy to the . . . [more]Similar Items | 20. | | Title: Making Muslim space in North America and Europe Author: Metcalf, Barbara Daly 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology | History | Islam | Middle Eastern Studies | Postcolonial StudiesPublisher's Description: Focusing on the private and public use of space, this volume explores the religious life of the new Muslim communities in North America and Europe. Unlike most studies of immigrant groups, these essays concentrate on cultural practices and expressions of everyday life rather than on the political is . . . [more]Similar Items |
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