INDEX
A
Adams, Henry, 88
Adams, John Quincy, 138
Allen, Gay Wilson, 232
American Indian Ethnohistoric Conference, 4
American School of ethnology, 233
Antiphrasis, 86 , 87 , 98 , 144
Anzaldúa, Gloria, 119 , 125 -126
Apes, Rev. William, 220 -229;
Eulogy on King Philip , 221 , 227 -229;
"The Experience of the Missionary," 221 , 225 -227;
Indian Nullification . . . , 221 , 227 ;
on prejudice/racism, 223 -227;
A Son of the Forest , 221 , 222 , 223 , 227
Aporia, 86 -87, 88 , 89 , 98 , 99 -100, 144
Applebee, Arthur, 235
Ardener, Edwin, 71
Aristotle, 20
Asad, Talal, 173 , 177 , 185 , 186 , 193 ;
on translation, 194 , 195 , 197 , 199
Autobiography:
Apes's, 221 -229;
Boas on, 69 ;
de Man on, 210 -211;
ethnographers write, 68 -69;
how to read, 210 -212;
as metaphorical, 212 -213;
as metonymic, 212 , 216 , 217 -219, 231 ;
Native American, 68 -69, 201 -231;
as oral/public performance, 216 -217;
post-contact, 219 -220;
Rousseau's, 217 -218;
as synecdochic, 216 -217, 220 , 225 , 228 , 229 , 230 -231;
Western, 216 , 217 -219, 231 ;
of women, 231
Axtell, James, 4
B
Bahr, Donald, 20 , 153 , 173 ;
on Native American oratory, 192 -193;
on translation, 194 -195
Bandelier, Adolph, 69 , 70 , 71 , 72
Barnouw, Victor, 174 -175
Barth, Fredrik, 15 , 240 , 245 n. 5
Barthes, Roland, 51 -52
Baudrillard, Jean, 6
Bell's Interconnectedness Theorem, 75
Benedict, Ruth, 72 -73, 84 n. 2
Benjamin, Walter, 187 , 195 , 196 , 197 , 237
Berkhofer, Robert, 133 , 138 , 144 , 146
Bernstein, R. J., 27
Bieder, Robert, 64
Biolsi, Thomas, 14 -15
Black Elk, 216 -217
Blanchot, Maurice, 195 , 196 -197
Bloom, Allan, 35
antiphrasis in work of, 98 ;
aporia in work of, 98 ;
on autobiography, 69 ;
catachresis in work of, 99 ;
distinguished between natural and social science, 91 -92;
hostility to theory/laws of, 89 -90;
influence/students of, 65 -66, 67 -68, 70 -74, 82 , 83 , 84 n. 2, 178 ;
influences on, 86 ;
irony in work of,
Boas, Franz (continued )
linguistics of, 178 ;
made anthropology a science, 84 , 89 , 90 , 92 -93;
on need for historical data, 97 ;
as precursor to postmodernism, 99 ;
Race, Language, and Culture , 93 -96, 97 -98, 129 -130;
relativism in work of, 89
Bohannon, Laura, 179
Boudinot, Elias, 150
Bradford, William, 223
Brightman, Robert, 195
Brodbeck, May, 58
Brumble, David, 210
Bullock, Alan, 85
Burnett, John G., 129
C
Cass, Lewis, 175
Castro, Michael, 30
Catachresis, 8 , 9 , 86 , 87 ;
in Boas's work, 99 ;
in Indian Removal Bill, 144 ;
in modernism, 88 ;
Cheney, Lynne, 234
Cherokee Indians:
cosmic counternarrative of, 160 -161;
constitution of, 150 ;
Declaration of Independence used by, 156 -157, 158 -159;
as equal to Euroamericans, 157 -158, 159 -160, 162 ;
Georgia v., 138 , 139 -140, 144 -145, 150 , 151 ;
identity of, 162 -163;
as independent nation, 138 -139;
irony used by, 160 -161, 162 ;
literacy of, 149 -150;
metaphors used by, 159 -160, 161 ;
oratorical practices of, 153 -154, 155 -156, 192 ;
response to removal bill of, 29 -30, 141 -142, 149 -163, 192 ;
Cherokee Memorial to Congress (1830), 141 , 142 , 149 -163, 192
The Cherokee Phoenix , 150
Cheyfitz, Eric, 6 , 131 , 156 , 191 ;
Clausen, Christopher, 234 -235, 236
Clifford, James, 18 , 53 , 61 , 101 -126, 236 ;
on comic v. tragic narrative, 110 -112, 117 , 120 , 122 , 135 ;
on cultural invention, 110 ;
as ethnographic conjuncturalist, 112 , 121 , 122 -123;
on ethnographic writing, 119 -120, 121 ;
on Euroamerican identity, 116 , 117 -118, 135 ;
irony in work of, 111 -112, 121 -122;
on metanarrative, 111 -112;
on Native American identity, 116 -118;
The Predicament of Culture , 101 , 102 , 116 -117, 120 ;
on W. C. Williams, 102 -105, 106 -110
Codere, Helen, 96
Colden, Cadwallader, 63
Collier, John, 148
Comedy:
Euroamerican/Western narrative as, 112 -113, 117 , 135 ;
v. tragedy, 110 -112, 117 , 120 , 122 , 135 , 161
Conjuncturalism, ethnographic, 102 , 112 , 121 , 122 -123, 124
Conrad, Joseph, 85
Cosmopolitanism, 3 -4, 147 -148, 239 -245;
critical, 243 -244;
v. cultural pluralism, 242 ;
for minorities, 246
Coulter, E. Merton, 129
Crane, Stephen, 85 -86
Criticism, literary, 120 , 173 ;
of Native American literature, 174 , 175 , 178 -179, 187 -191;
by Native Americans, 187 -188;
translation as, 193 -200;
trickster, 7 , 14 , 118 , 183 , 184 , 191 , 230
Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 64 , 178
D
Darnell, Regna, 64
Dauenhauer, Richard and Nora, 192
Dawes Act (General Allotment Act of 1887), 145 -147
Declaration of Independence, 156 -157, 158 -159
Deloria, Ella Cara, 72
Deloria, Vine, Jr., 47
DeMallie, Raymond, 72
Derrida, Jacques, 36 -37, 52 , 130
de Tocqueville, Alexis, 134 , 141 n. 5 , 143 -144, 152
Dippie, Brian, 138 , 146 , 233
Diversity, 238 -240, 242 -243.
See also Multiculturalism
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 213
Drinnon, Richard, 146
Dumont, Louis, 223
Durham, Jimmie, 247 -248
E
Eastman, Charles Alexander, 230
Eliot, T. S., 30 , 71 , 100 , 213
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 232 -234, 236
Erdoes, Richard, 39
Ethnic, cognitive, 3
Ethnocentrism, 5
Ethnohistory, 4 -5
Ethnology, 233
Eurocentrism, 234 -235
Evolutionism, 62
F
Fajans, Jane, 210
Fiction, ethnographic, 60 -62, 70 -74
Fischer, Michael, 53 , 54 , 72 , 207
Fish, Stanley, 33 -36
Ford, Ford Madox, 85
Formalists, Russian, 53 -54, 72
Foster, Michael, 192
Foucault, Michel, 24 , 37 , 60
Freud, Sigmund, 85
Frye, Northrop, 56 , 57 , 131 , 135
G
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., 235
Geertz, Clifford, 57 -58, 60 , 75 , 101 , 110 , 112 , 130 ;
George III of England, 158
Georgia, v. Cherokee, 138 , 139 -140, 144 -145, 150 , 151
Georgia Cession of 1802, 139 -140
Gingerich, Willard, 114 -115
Goldman, Irving, 90 n. 6
Gómez-Peña, Guillermo, 3 , 119
Goodman, Paul, 11
Graff, Gerald, 32
Guess, George (Sequoyah), 149
H
Habermas, Jurgen, 23 , 78 n. 16
Hakluyt, Richard, 61
Hale, Horatio, 178
Hallowell, A. I., 15
Hardy, Thomas, 85
Harlem Renaissance, 73
Hartsock, Nancy, 22 , 23 , 24 -25, 79 , 119 , 125
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 35 -36
Heelas, Paul, 201
Hemenway, Robert, 74
Henson, Lance, 47
Heterogeneity, 3
Hirsch, E. D., 56
Hogan, Linda, xi
Hollinger, David, 239 -243, 244
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 233
Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 205 -206
Hopkins, Sarah Winnemucca, 229
Hurston, Zora Neale, 73 -74
Hypotragedy, 183 -184
I
Imperialism, 5 ;
anthropology and, 60 ;
ethnocriticism as, 5 -7
Indiana University conference on linguistics, 55
Indian Civil Rights Act (1968), 146 , 148
Indian Removal Act of 1830, 132 -145, 151 -152;
antiphrasis in, 144 ;
aporia in, 144 ;
catachresis in, 144 ;
Cherokee response to, 29 -30, 141 -142, 149 -163, 192 ;
de Tocqueville on, 141 n. 5, 143 -144;
image of Indian in, 144 ;
irony in, 141 , 142 , 143 , 160 ;
oxymoron in, 144 ;
paradoxes in, 137 -138, 139 , 140 -141;
as paternalistic, 142 -143;
as tragedy, 140 -141, 161 -162
Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, 145 -146, 148
Indian Self-Determination Act of 1975, 146 , 148
Interdisciplinarity, 32 -34, 35 , 36
Interminacy principle (Heisenberg), 75 , 85
aporitic, 99 -100;
Boas used, 88 -89, 94 , 97 , 98 -99;
in Cherokee discourse, 160 -161, 162 ;
Clifford used, 111 -112, 121 -122;
in ethnographic conjuncturalism, 112 ;
figures/troops of (see Antiphrasis;
Aporia; Catachresis; Oxymoron);
in Indian Removal Act, 141 , 142 , 143 , 160 ;
in science, 86 ;
in sense of self, 212 -213;
scepticism expressed by, 86 ;
as trope of modernism, 86 -87, 88
Iroquois, 41
J
Jackson, Andrew, 133 , 138 -139, 141 , 143 , 150 , 151 , 157 , 159 -160, 161
James, Henry, 71 , 85 , 88 , 100 , 147
Jay, Nancy, 20
Jefferson, Thomas, 63 , 133 , 138 , 177
Jennings, Francis, 106
Johnson, Mark, 214
K
Kaiser, Rudolf, 41
Kant, Immanuel, 32
Keats, John, 75 -76
Kerber, Linda, 238 -240, 242 -243
King Philip's War, 227 -228
Kristeva, Julia, 118
Kroeber, Alfred, 70 , 71 , 72 , 84 n. 2, 97
Kroeber, Karl, 180 -181
L
Lacan, Jacques, 52
LaCapra, Dominick, 19
Lakoff, George, 214
Lame Deer, 39
Lawrence, D. H., 100
Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 55 , 56 , 57 , 180 -181
Linguistics:
in anthropology, 177 -178;
structuralist, 55 -57
Lovejoy, Arthur O., 38
Lutz, Harmut, 39 -40
Lyotard, Jean-François, 6 -7, 8 , 10 , 12 , 13 , 22 , 24 , 99
Lytle, Donovan, 192
M
Macquet, Jacques, 77
Malinowski, Bronislaw, 71
Manichean reasoning, 14 , 19 , 20 -21, 22 , 26
Manifest destiny, 135
Marcus, George, 51 , 53 , 54 , 72 , 102 , 207
Marshall, John, 140
Mashpee Indians, 116 -117
Matthews, F. H., 108 -109
Matthews, Washington, 178
Mattina, Anthony, 192
Mauss, Marcel, 204 -205, 206 , 222 -223
Mead, George Herbert, 206
Melting pot theory, 34 -35, 147
Melville, Herman, 212 -213
Metanarratives, 111 -112;
as basis of scientific discourse, 22 ;
challenged, 10 -13;
postmodernism on, 8
Metaphor, 214 ;
in autobiography, 212 -213;
on Native American, as opposition, 38 -45, 157 ;
in self-concept, 212 -213
Metaphysics, 23
Metonymy, 214 ;
in autobiography, 212 , 216 , 217 -219, 231 ;
v. synecdoche, 215 -216
Milton, John, 137
Modernism, 72 ;
in anthropology, 71 , 82 , 84 ;
aporia in, 88 ;
catacheresis as trope of, 88 ;
in literature, 84 ;
in sense of self, 212 -213
Momaday, N. Scott, 231
Montaigne, Michel de, 62 , 198 , 199
Mooney, James, 64
Morgan, Lewis Henry, 63 -64
Multiculturalism, 234 -248;
literature taught via, 237 -238;
v. monoculturalism, 238
Murra, John, 64
Murray, David, 64
Musil, Robert, 213
N
Narrative:
comic v. tragic, 110 -112, 117 , 120 , 122 , 135 , 161 ;
Euroamerican/Western, 110 -112, 117 , 135 ;
identity validated through, 116 -118, 135 ;
image of Native American in, 134 -135, 146 -149;
imposed by law, 132 , 146 -149;
Native American, 118 , 149 -163, 179 .
See also Metanarrative
National Endowment for the Humanities, 234
Native American Renaissance, 186 -187
New York Times , 234 -235
New York Tribune , 234
Nez Percé Indians, 181
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 85 , 86 , 88 , 98
Norman, Howard, 195
Novel, v. romance, 71
O
Oratory/oral performances, 30 , 154 , 155 , 156 , 176 , 187 , 190 , 191 -193;
autobiography as, 216 -217
Ortiz, Fernando, 15
Ortiz, Simon, 114
Ortner, Sherry, 15
Ostranenie , 54
Oxymoron, 29 , 86 , 87 , 144 , 146 -147
P
Pannwitz, Rudolf, 195 , 197 , 198 , 237
Paradox, 147 ;
in Indian Removal Act, 137 -138, 139 , 140 -141;
Peacham, Henry, 87
Pearce, Roy Harvey, 134 -135, 149 , 236
Pequot Indians, 221 -229
Phinney, Archie, 181
Pima Indians, 192 -193
Pluralism, cultural, 18 -20, 147 -148, 237 , 242 ;
on postmodernism, 49 , 50 -51, 75 , 76 , 78 -79
Positionality, 23 -24
Positivism, cultural, 62
ethnography in, 53 -54, 75 , 184 -185;
ethnography and literature converge in, 75 , 130 -131;
on literature, 49 , 51 , 182 -184;
on metanarrative, 8 ;
on Native Americans, 182 -184;
on philosophy, 8 -9;
precursors of, 99 ;
as science meeting literature, 49 , 51 ;
on scientific discourse, 22
Powell, John Wesley, 65
Pratt, Mary Louise, 61
Purchas, Rev. Samuel, 61
Q
Quintana, Leroy, 114
R
Rabinow, Paul, 243 -245
Radin, Paul, 68 -69
Ramsey, Jarold, 181
Relativism, 84 ;
of Boas, 89 ;
Revard, Carter, 40 , 208 , 210
Rhetoric, 131 ;
figures of (see Trope)
Ridington, Robin, 6
Riggs, Bishop, 178
Robinson, Harry, 188 -190
Rogin, Michael, 133 , 146 , 154
Rohner, Ronald, 97
Rorty, Amélie, 201 -202
Rorty, Richard, 7 , 10 , 12 , 22 , 24 , 35 , 50 , 99
Rose, Wendy, 247
Ross, Lewis, 155
Rothenberg, Jerome, 194 , 195 -196, 198 -200
Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 217 -218
Ryle, Gilbert, 57
S
Said, Edward, 34 , 120 , 132 , 136
Sale, Kirkpatrick, 115
Sangren, P. Steven, 78 n. 16
Satire. See Irony
Saussure, Ferdinand de, 85
Savage, Native Americans as, 106 , 134 -135, 144 , 224 , 236
Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 63
Science:
anthropology as, 58 , 63 , 64 -65, 82 , 84 , 89 , 90 , 92 -93;
discourse in, 22 ;
ethnography as, 64 -65;
and literature converge, 49 , 51
Scott, Winfield, 145
Self, 201 -231;
culture defines, 203 -204;
ethnography of, 202 -203;
ironic sense of, 212 -213;
metaphoric, 212 -213;
modernist sense of, 212 -213;
Native American sense of, 201 , 204 -210;
in opposition to society, 209 ;
v. personhood, 202 n. 1;
social theory of, 206 ;
synecdochic model of, 212 , 213 , 216 , 217 n. 18;
tropes of, 214 -215;
Western sense of, 204 -207, 209 , 231 ;
women's model of, 217 n. 18
Sequoya, Jana, 185 , 186 , 190 , 193 , 200
Sequoyah (George Guess), 149
Shakespeare, William, 62 , 234 , 235
Shakur, Assata, 231
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 75
Silko, Leslie Marmon, 6 , 186 , 230
Sioux, Brulé, 16 , 17 , 44 -45
Smith, Barbara Herrnstein, 32
Smith, M. Brewster, 214
Smith, Marion, 90 n. 6
Smith, Paul, 203
Sollors, Werner, 110 n. 3, 246
Sontag, Susan, 57
Spivak, Gayatri, 8 , 19 , 28 , 29 , 188
Stein, Gertrude, 219
Stocking, George, 65
Storrs, Henry, 143
Strachey, William, 174
Strathern, Marilyn, 99
Strickland, Rennard, 150 , 155
Synedoche:
in autobiography, 216 -217, 220 , 225 , 228 , 229 , 230 -231;
metonymy compared to, 215 -216;
in Native American literature, 217 -218, 220 , 224 -225, 227 -228, 229 , 230 -231;
as part-to-whole relationship, 216 , 217 ;
self described via, 212 , 213 , 216 , 217 n. 18;
Western women use, 217 n. 18, 231
T
Tacitus, 59 -60
Tedlock, Dennis, 199
Thoreau, Henry, 218 -219
Timberlake, Lt. Henry, 176 -177, 193
Todorov, Tzvetan, 20 -21, 22 , 23 , 24 -25
Tragedy, 131 ;
v. comedy, 110 -112, 117 , 120 , 122 , 135 , 161 ;
hypo-, 183 -184;
in Indian Removal Act, 140 -141, 161 -162;
Native American image as, 134 -135, 136 , 140 -141, 161 -162;
Transculturalization, 15
Translation, as ethnocriticism, 193 -200;
good v. bad, 194 -197;
of Native American literature, 176 -177, 178 , 193 -200
Treaty of New Echota, 145
Trickster criticism, 7 , 14 , 118 , 183 , 184 , 191 , 230
See also Antiphrasis; Aporia; Catachresis; Irony; Metaphor; Metonymy; Synecdoche
Turner, Frederick Jackson, 4 -5
Tyler, Stephen, 6 , 7 , 58 , 99 , 183 , 215 -216;
postmodern ethnography of, 54 , 184 -185
U
Underhill, Ruth, 72
V
Vizenor, Gerald, 6 , 119 , 182 -185;
trickster criticism of, 7 , 14 , 118 , 183 , 184 , 191 , 230
Voth, H. R., 178
W
Washington, George, 177
Wheeler-Howard Act of 1934, 145 -146, 148
White, Allon, 124
White, Hayden, 77 -78, 89 , 111 , 131 -132, 136 ;
White, Leslie, 84
Wickwire, Wendy, 188 -190
Williams, Raymond, 23 , 58 , 78 , 101
Williams, Robert A., Jr., 39 , 40 -41
Williams, William Carlos, 116 , 122 ;
on American Indian, 106 -107;
In the American Grain , 106 , 109 ;
"To Elsie," 102 -105, 106 -110
Wissler, Clark, 65
Wolf, Eric, 155
Worcester, Rev. Samuel, 150 , 178
Worcester v. Georgia, 136 -137 n. 4, 140
Wordsworth, William, 174
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