Indigenous peoples / Indigeneity Books
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£38.40
The University of Chicago Press Arrernte Present Arrernte Past
Book SynopsisA study that addresses the Arrernte's contemporary situation. It documents the immense sociocultural changes they have experienced. It traces the history of the Arrernte as they have transitioned from a society of hunter-gatherers to members of the Hermannsburg Mission community to their marginalized position in the modern Australian economy.Trade Review"This is a landmark book for indigenous studies, one of the best things I've read in years. I am really taken with the subtle way in which Austin-Broos characterizes and explains the formations of contemporary Arrernte life, the connections it has with the past, and the way in which she allows us to see the role of their imagination in making this world in the face of great difficulties." - Fred Myers, New York University"
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Fighting Like a Community Andean Civil Society in
Book SynopsisDemonstrates how indigenous power in Ecuador is energized by disagreements over values and priorities, eloquently contending that the plurality of Andean communities, not their unity, has been the key to their political success.Trade Review"This is an exceptionally well-written book with a narrative pull that captures the reader's imagination and makes it a joy to read. Colloredo-Mansfeld presents a provocative take on indigenous activism, the moral complexity of communities and civil society, and the ways neoliberal reforms are experienced and challenged by Andean peoples." - Edward Fischer, Vanderbilt University"
£26.00
The University of Chicago Press Historys Shadow Native Americans and Historical
Book SynopsisWho were the Native Americans? Where did they come from and how long ago? Did they have a history, and would they have a future? Questions such as these dominated intellectual life in the United States during the nineteenth century. And for many Americans, such questions about the original inhabitants of their homeland inspired a flurry of historical investigation, scientific inquiry, and heated political debate. History's Shadow traces the struggle of Americans trying to understand the people who originally occupied the continent claimed as their own. Steven Conn considers how the question of the Indian compelled Americans to abandon older explanatory frameworks for sovereignty like the Bible and classical literature and instead develop new ones. Through their engagement with Native American language and culture, American intellectuals helped shape and define the emerging fields of archaeology, ethnology, linguistics, and art. But more important, the questions posed by the presence
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Custerology
Book SynopsisOn a hot summer day in 1876, George Armstrong Custer led the Seventh Cavalry to the famous defeat in US military history. Outnumbered and exhausted, the Seventh Cavalry lost more than half of its four hundred men, and every soldier under Custer's direct command was killed. This title takes readers to each of the important places of Custer's life.Trade Review"Elliott is an approachable guide as he takes readers to battlefields where Custer fought American Indians... to the Michigan town of Monroe that Custer called home after he moved there at age 10... to the Black Hills of South Dakota where Custer led an expedition that gave birth to a gold rush." - Steve Weinberg, Atlanta Journal-Constitution "By 'Custerology,' Elliott means the historical interpretation and commemoration of Custer and the Indian Wars in which he fought not only by those who honor Custer but by those who celebrate the Native American resistance that defeated him. The purpose of this book is to show how Custer and the Little Bighorn can be and have been commemorated for such contradictory purposes." - Library Journal "Michael Elliott's Custerology is vivid, trenchant, engrossing, and important. The American soldier George Armstrong Custer has been the subject of very nearly incessant debate for almost a century and a half, and the debate is multicultural, multinational, and multimedia. Mr. Elliott's book provides by far the best overview, and no one interested in the long-haired soldier whom the Indians called Son of the Morning Star can afford to miss it." - Larry McMurtry"
£18.58
The University of Chicago Press Rereading the Black Legend
Book SynopsisThe phrase "the Black Legend" was coined in 1912 by a Spanish journalist in protest of the characterization of Spain by other Europeans as a backward country. Challenging this stereotype, this book contextualizes Spain's tarnished reputation by exposing colonial efforts of other nations whose interests were served by propagating the Black Legend.
£30.40
The University of Chicago Press Mehinaku
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£30.00
The University of Chicago Press Things Seen and Unseen Discourse and Ideology in
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£42.75
The University of Chicago Press The Broken Hoe
Book SynopsisA study of the Biase, an ethnic group living in Southeast Nigeria. The author examines whether Western practices and technologies may improve their standard of living or whether their indigenous beliefs and strategies are better suited to local conditions.
£30.40
The University of Chicago Press The Story of Lynx
Book SynopsisIn this wide-ranging work, Claude Levi-Strauss examines the mythology of American Indians and seeks to illustrate how contact with Europeans have altered these tales.
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Animal Intimacies Interspecies Relatedness in
Book SynopsisIn 2007 a disputed election in Kenya erupted into a political crisis that led to thousands of deaths. Much of the violence fell along ethnic lines, the principal perpetrators of which were the Kalenjin. Uncovering the Kalenjin's roots, the author examines the ways in which ethnic groups are socially constructed and renegotiated over time.Trade Review"This is an indispensable guide to understanding the distinctive place of Kalenjin nationalism in Kenyan politics and the recent post-election violence as well as the role of ethnicity in Africa more broadly. Lynch is superb in explaining both the persistent dissension within the Kalenjin as well as the way unity was achieved in the context of the ethnic logic of Kenyan politics, the dynamics of which she has exceptional insight into." (Adam Ashforth, University of Michigan)"
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press Do You See Ice
Book SynopsisMany Americans imagine the Arctic as harsh, freezing, and nearly uninhabitable. The living Arctic, howeverthe one experienced by native Inuit and others who work and travel thereis a diverse region shaped by much more than stereotype and mythology. Do You See Ice? presents a history of Arctic encounters from 1850 to 1920 based on Inuit and American accounts, revealing how people made sense of new or changing environments. Routledge vividly depicts the experiences of American whalers and explorers in Inuit homelands. Conversely, she relates stories of Inuit who traveled to the northeastern United States and were similarly challenged by the norms, practices, and weather they found there. Standing apart from earlier books of Arctic cultural researchwhich tend to focus on either Western expeditions or Inuit lifeDo You See Ice? explores relationships between these two groups in a range of northern and temperate locations. Based on archival research and conversations with Inuit Elders and experts, Routledge's book is grounded by ideas of home: how Inuit and Americans often experienced each other's countries as dangerous and inhospitable, how they tried to feel at home in unfamiliar places, and why these feelings and experiences continue to resonate today. The author intends to donate all royalties from this book to the Elders' Room at the Angmarlik Center in Pangnirtung, Nunavut.
£41.80
The University of Chicago Press Wandering Spirits Loneliness and Longing in
Book SynopsisIt is common to think of the Arctic as remote, perched at the farthest reaches of the world--a simple and harmonious, isolated utopia. But the reality, as Janne Flora shows us, is anything but. In Wandering Spirits, Flora reveals how deeply connected the Arctic is to the rest of the world and how it has been affected by the social, political, economic, and environmental shifts that ushered in the modern age. In this innovative study, Flora focuses on Inuit communities in Greenland and addresses a central puzzle: their alarmingly high suicide rate. She explores the deep connections between loneliness and modernity in the Arctic, tracing the history of Greenland and analyzing the social dynamics that shaped it. Flora's thorough, sensitive engagement with the families that make up these communities uncovers the complex interplay between loneliness and a host of economic and environmental practices, including the widespread local tradition of hunting. Wandering Spirits offers a vivid pTrade Review"A masterful integration of sensitive fieldwork and analytical insight on an extraordinary landscape. Through a tender narrative of people's lives, Flora faithfully transmits a whole world of understanding and feeling. This book will challenge any reader's assumptions about the possible meanings of life and death, belonging and--especially--isolation."--Piers Vitebsky, author of Living without the Dead "With this rich ethnographic work, Flora clearly masters the art of finding a place for herself within a tightly knit social space and of hearing the unsaid, which allows for new and moving insights into feelings of loneliness and of relatedness--to people as well as landscapes."--Kirsten Hastrup, University of Copenhagen
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Wandering Spirits
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A masterful integration of sensitive fieldwork and analytical insight on an extraordinary landscape. Through a tender narrative of people's lives, Flora faithfully transmits a whole world of understanding and feeling. This book will challenge any reader's assumptions about the possible meanings of life and death, belonging and--especially--isolation."--Piers Vitebsky, author of Living without the Dead "With this rich ethnographic work, Flora clearly masters the art of finding a place for herself within a tightly knit social space and of hearing the unsaid, which allows for new and moving insights into feelings of loneliness and of relatedness--to people as well as landscapes."--Kirsten Hastrup, University of Copenhagen
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Labors Lot The Power History and Culture of
Book SynopsisA study of the Belyuen community of northern Australia, showing how it draws identity from deep connections between labour, language and the landscape. Povinelli's findings challenge Western notions of productive labour and long-standing ideas about the role of culture in subsistence economies.
£98.80
The University of Chicago Press Labors Lot The Power History and Culture of
Book SynopsisA study of the Belyuen community of northern Australia, showing how it draws identity from deep connections between labour, language and the landscape. Povinelli's findings challenge Western notions of productive labour and long-standing ideas about the role of culture in subsistence economies.
£30.40
The University of Chicago Press Arguing with Tradition The Language of Law in
Book SynopsisExplores language and interaction within a contemporary Native American legal system. This work explains how Hopi notions of tradition and culture shape and are shaped by processes of Hopi jurisprudence. It shows that Hopi jurists and litigants have called for their courts to develop a jurisprudence that better reflect Hopi culture and traditions.Trade Review"I could not be more enthusiastic about this book. Richland has provided one of the very few extended considerations of courtroom talk in a language other than English - to very good effect. He makes an argument that makes a real difference, and does so with insight, clarity, imagination, and rigor." - Donald Brenneis, University of California, Santa Cruz"
£23.00
The University of Chicago Press Freedom in Fulani Social Life An Introspective
Book SynopsisThis text is based upon the author's two years of residence among the Jelgobe, a group of semi-nomadic Fulani of the Sahel in Burkina Faso, western Africa.Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgements Note on Transcription Introduction Part One: The Tawaangal of the Jelgobe 1 Climate and Technology 2 The Social Organization of Jelgoji 3 Fulani Social Structure 4 Life in the Wuro: Categories of People and Tasks 5 Authority Relations in the Wuro 6 Religion 7 Pulaaku and Semteende: Fulani-ness and Shame Part Two: Life as Lived 8 Jelgobe Attitudes toward Life 9 Keeping Society Going 10 Relations between People 11 How to Resist Others 12 Wuro and Ladde: The Village and the Bush Notes Glossary and Index of Fula Terms Bibliography Index
£30.40
The University of Chicago Press In Sorcerys Shadow A Memoir of Apprenticeship
Book SynopsisThe tale of Paul Stoller's sojourn among sorcerors in the Republic of Niger is a story of growth and change, of mutual respect and understanding that will challenge all who read it to plunge deeply into an alien world.
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Views of the Cordilleras and Monuments of the
Book SynopsisIn 1799, the authors set out to determine whether the Orinoco River connected with the Amazon. This title brings together drawings and detailed texts to achieve multifaceted views of cultures and landscapes across the Americas.
£61.75
John Wiley & Sons Canadian Justice Indigenous Injustice The Gerald
Book SynopsisPutting Gerald Stanley's acquittal for killing Colten Boushie in the context of Canada's colonial and systemic discrimination against Indigenous peoples.Trade Review"Timely, useful, and authoritative, Canadian Justice, Indigenous Injustice offers a thoughtful and balanced discussion of the evidence and the issues behind a highly controversial topic. A worthy and important study." Ken S. Coates, University of Saskatchewan and co-author of Land of the Midnight Sun"Highly readable and very timely, Canadian Justice, Indigenous Injustice exposes a court system that, when it comes to Indigenous people, gets it relentlessly and repeatedly wrong and struggles in vain to end generations of hostility, bias, and alienation." Kirk Makin, former Globe and Mail justice reporter and author of Redrum the Innocent"Meticulous detail is presented on the pernicious reality of racism, colonialism, and Indigenous 'injustice.' Professor Roach dissects the trial process for Gerald Stanley and draws from a series of similar cases. He identifies the persistence of dropped threads, missed opportunities, and decisions to set aside deeper issues of historic injustice and systemic discrimination." Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond (Aki-Kwe), director of the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre and professor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia"In a meticulously researched and documented analysis of the trial of Gerald Stanley for the killing of Boushie in 2016, Roach exposes a whole system designed to maintain inequality between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians." The Tyee
£29.45
John Wiley & Sons Colonialisms Currency Money State and First
Book SynopsisA revealing analysis of money and politics in the Canadian colonial project.Trade Review"Colonialism's Currency is meticulous in the development of its argument, drawing expertly on original sources enriched by an interwoven analysis based both on the author's well-informed interpretation of the data and on secondary literature, resulting in an entirely convincing and highly original book." Hugh Shewell, Carleton University and author of "Enough to Keep Them Alive": Indian Welfare in Canada, 1873-1965“Gettler shows that currency is a useful tool for expanding territory, asserting dominance, and disciplining people who object to further colonial control. … interesting for all readers.” Canada’s History
£31.50
McGill-Queen's University Press Uumajursiutik unaatuinnamut Hunter with Harpoon
Book SynopsisThe first direct translations of this groundbreaking novel reveal a stark, powerful story, an Inuit worldview, and the unique voice of Markoosie Patsauq.Trade Review"Both a pivotal work of Indigenous fiction and an effort to acknowledge and correct injustices, Hunter with Harpoon is a testament to the resilience of the Inuit people." Foreword Reviews“The value of Uumajursiutik unaatuinnamut / Hunter with Harpoon / Chasseur au harpon as a rich primary source for further research, new translations, and indeed activism cannot be overstated. Meanwhile, the book as a whole is a powerful illustration of the epistemological capacity of contemporary Translation Studies. Through their personal and scholarly ambition, eloquence, and integrity, Henitiuk, Mahieu, and Markoosie remind us here that translation is always the story at the heart of storytelling.” Traduction, terminologie, rédaction«Uumajursiutik unaatuinnamut priorise l’écrit en inuktitut pour sa valeur en soi et dans ses propres termes. Enfin, la collaboration entre Henitiuk, Mahieu et Patsauq contribue à donner une visibilité à un auteur à la langue riche et vivante et à une culture littéraire proprement inuit.» Anthropologie et Sociétés
£63.00
McGill-Queen's University Press Fighting for a Hand to Hold
Book SynopsisLaunched by healthcare providers in January 2018, the #aHand2Hold campaign confronted the Quebec government''s practice of separating children from their families during medical evacuation airlifts, which disproportionately affected remote and northern Indigenous communities. Pediatric emergency physician Samir Shaheen-Hussain''s captivating narrative of this successful campaign, which garnered unprecedented public attention and media coverage, seeks to answer lingering questions about why such a cruel practice remained in place for so long. In doing so it serves as an indispensable case study of contemporary medical colonialism in Quebec. Fighting for a Hand to Hold exposes the medical establishment''s role in the displacement, colonization, and genocide of Indigenous peoples in Canada. Through meticulously gathered government documentation, historical scholarship, media reports, public inquiries, and personal testimonies, Shaheen-Hussain connects the draconian medevac practice with oTrade Review"Anyone who thinks that racism in Canada is more benign than it is in the United States--or that Canada has left its genocidal policies in the past--must read Samir Shaheen-Hussain's new book. Fighting for A Hand to Hold is an engaging and well-documented analysis of medical colonialism that deserves further discussion and, most important, action." Canadian Dimension"Fighting for a Hand to Hold is important in encouraging us to reflect and rethink it. Samir's call for the decolonisation of health care would entail reparations for Indigenous nations, which includes the return of land and sovereignty over the labour of care. Indigenous land defenders fighting colonial development, Indigenous projects of food sovereignty and agroecology, and the resurgence of Indigenous traditional knowledge, including practices of healing, all point to the importance of reclaiming sovereignty over care as pathways for decolonising health care." Race & Class"Fighting for a Hand to Hold reveals systemic challenges through an approach that offers a holistic look at the structures that hold injustices in place. Inspired by patients, Shaheen-Hussain examines the impacts of medical colonialism on the lives of Indigenous young people. This book made me think about how we can create the change that is necessary to address the anti-Indigenous racism of Canada's past and present." Margo Greenwood, The Lancet
£22.79
McGill-Queen's University Press Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern
Book SynopsisAn original perspective on the history of northern North American peoples grounded in things, this book explores how close, collaborative looking can discern the traces of contact, exchange, and movement of objects and give them a life and political power in complex cross-cultural histories.Trade Review"Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America demonstrates how objects can be related to such diverse themes as status, masculinity, imperial and diplomatic relations, craftsmanship, perseverance of Indigenous traditions, cultural hybridity, personal relationships and gift-giving, consumerism, ways of knowing, and health and healing. It is a sustained application of material culture theory to a diverse range of Indigenous material culture that keeps the objects front and centre." Michelle Hamilton, University of Western Ontario“Ultimately, Object Lives and Global Histories provides a broader appreciation of multidisciplinary approaches to Indigenous material cultures. It also encourages scholars, museum workers, and others to delve deep, to engage in slow or concentrated looking and multi-sensory explorations, as well as multi-vocal dialogues—to listen, to learn, and to honour the abundance of knowledges that function outside the walls of the museums, the archives, and institutional frameworks. It offers insights as to how decentre and reframe historical analyses of objects by bringing lives to bear on their existence.” RACAR"Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America is without doubt 'a tool for future endeavours' as it sets out to be. Like the objects it analyses, it should circulate widely, across disciplinary borders and social networks beyond museum walls to help guide new methodologies around the study of collections whose diverse contexts—and our understandings of them—continue to change." Dress: The Journal of the Costume Society of America"[T]his book is a feast for the eyes." Material Culture Review/Revue de la culture matérielle“[An] impressive collection that will surely impact how scholars think about material culture, collaborative research, and decolonizing the academy for years to come.” HNet
£35.10
McGill-Queen's University Press Hunter with Harpoon
Book SynopsisA new English translation of an acclaimed 1970 novel reveals a stark, powerful story, an Inuit worldview, and the unique voice of Markoosie Patsauq.Trade Review"Both a pivotal work of Indigenous fiction and an effort to acknowledge and correct injustices, Hunter with Harpoon is a testament to the resilience of the Inuit people." Foreword Reviews«Uumajursiutik unaatuinnamut priorise l’écrit en inuktitut pour sa valeur en soi et dans ses propres termes. Enfin, la collaboration entre Henitiuk, Mahieu et Patsauq contribue à donner une visibilité à un auteur à la langue riche et vivante et à une culture littéraire proprement inuit.» Anthropologie et Sociétés
£999.99
John Wiley & Sons Royally Wronged The Royal Society of Canada and
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This valuable and timely collection should spark reflection and conversation both within and beyond the Royal Society of Canada. Royally Wronged helps unravel the lingering legacies of colonialism in the ‘knowledge' we have produced." Sarah Carter, University of Alberta and author of Lost Harvests: Prairie Indian Reserve Farmers and Government Policy“Representing courage, resilience, and resurgence, [the cover image] captures the recurring themes and ultimate promise of Royally Wronged, a wonderful collection of essays about the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), its historical treatment of Indigenous peoples and Indigenous knowledge, and where it might go from here. Animating Royally Wronged is an earnest and genuine effort to think through Canada as a colonial project and to assess the place of knowledge, knowledge networks, and knowledge dissemination in that project.” University of Toronto Quarterly
£999.99
McGill-Queen's University Press Heirs of an Ambivalent Empire
Book SynopsisHeirs of an Ambivalent Empire explores the lives of ordinary Canadiens who used kinship ties to navigate the space between sovereign Indigenous homelands and the French colonial government in the Hudson Bay watershed from the early 1660s to the 1780s – leading to the emergence of a new Indigenous culture, language, people, and nation: the Métis.Trade Review“Bringing attention to a largely neglected but critical region – the immense Hudson Bay watershed – Berthelette makes a major intervention in the history of the French empire in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the relationship between Indigenous peoples and key agents of empire, and the rise of the Métis Nation.” Michael McDonnell, University of Sydney
£27.90
McGill-Queen's University Press Unsettling Canadian Art History
Book SynopsisBringing together fifteen scholars of art and culture, this collection addresses visual and material cultural histories of settler colonialism, enslavement, and racialized diasporas in the contested white settler state of Canada, offering new perspectives for decolonial and anti-racist scholarship on art, archives, and creative practice.
£40.50
McGill-Queen's University Press Red Mitten Nationalism Sport Commercialism and
Book SynopsisUnacknowledged truths about the history and persistence of Settler colonialism in Canada haunt the commercial features of this country’s sporting events. Red Mitten Nationalism investigates contemporary Canadian patriotism by exploring how understandings of Canadian identity are shaped at the intersection of sport, nationalism, and commercialism.Trade Review“Fresco engages with the timely and important issues of colonization, reconciliation, and Indigenous resistance through the lens of sport. Thoughtful, insightful, and benefitting greatly from the author's own considerable primary research, Red Mitten Nationalism makes a unique contribution to our understanding of the connections between the Olympic Games, nationalism, and commercialism.” Richard Gruneau, Simon Fraser University and author of Sport and Modernity
£999.99
John Wiley & Sons Called Upstairs
Book SynopsisCalled Upstairs explores the transformation, under centuries of Inuit stewardship, of a music practice introduced by Moravian missionaries in the late 1700s. A story of adaptation and mediation, the book presents a chronicle of Inuit leadership and agency in the face of colonialism.Trade Review“Tom Gordon's own journey - from his early absorption with reams of manuscripts in Labrador choir lofts to an active engagement through listening, observing, recording, becoming an apprentice and participant in the Nain choir, and ultimately initiating collaborative projects with Labrador Inuit musicians and community members - is what makes this a particularly rich account of musical tradition. In Called Upstairs, he shares his unique understanding of this music and its development gained through experience with a wide spectrum of readers.” Maija Lutz, author of Hunters, Carvers, and Collectors: The Chauncey C. Nash Collection of Inuit Art
£98.60
McGill-Queen's University Press Called Upstairs
Book SynopsisCalled Upstairs explores the transformation, under centuries of Inuit stewardship, of a music practice introduced by Moravian missionaries in the late 1700s. A story of adaptation and mediation, the book presents a chronicle of Inuit leadership and agency in the face of colonialism.Trade Review“Tom Gordon's own journey - from his early absorption with reams of manuscripts in Labrador choir lofts to an active engagement through listening, observing, recording, becoming an apprentice and participant in the Nain choir, and ultimately initiating collaborative projects with Labrador Inuit musicians and community members - is what makes this a particularly rich account of musical tradition. In Called Upstairs, he shares his unique understanding of this music and its development gained through experience with a wide spectrum of readers.” Maija Lutz, author of Hunters, Carvers, and Collectors: The Chauncey C. Nash Collection of Inuit Art
£35.10
McGill-Queen's University Press The Holy Spirit and the Eagle Feather
Book SynopsisThe Holy Spirit and the Eagle Feather traces the history of Indigenous Pentecostalism in Canada. It tells the story of how Indigenous Pentecostals overcame the entrenched colonialism of the mission-led church to become religious leaders in their own communities, as well as agents for decolonization and reconciliation.Trade Review“The Holy Spirit and the Eagle Feather is an impressively thorough history that importantly fills out the historical record on the spread of Pentecostalism through local Indigenous communities in northern Ontario while simultaneously connecting the local histories to a larger religious shift across North America. The book is well written, engaging, and filled with information only recorded in hard-to-access archives, until now.” Kimberly Marshall, University of Oklahoma and author of Upward, Not Sunwise: Resonant Rupture in Navajo Neo-Pentecostalism“The Holy Spirit and the Eagle Feather is a well-researched historical treatise of Pentecostalism among First Peoples, Nations, and bands in Canada. Once you have begun reading this book, you will be unable to put it down! The author’s ‘quiet voice’ has relevance and immediacy to the challenges of Canada. Truth never changes, but it must be packaged culturally and generationally to make it relevant with knowledge that is consistent with reality. Combining insight and foresight, Aaron Ross not only perceives tendencies common to cross-cultural workers, he is able to pinpoint those meanings for the reader. His work will retain a lasting validity that can be studied, and restudied.” Rev. John E. Thohate Maracle (Mohawk Wolf Clan), Former Chief of the Native American Fellowship of the Assemblies of God USA“Ross very skillfully dissects and explains the complex and changing relationship between Canadian Pentecostal settlers and Indigenous peoples. I cannot recommend this book too highly. … The Holy Spirit and the Eagle Feather successfully answers Michael Wilkinson’s tireless call for Canadian Pentecostal scholars to shift their insular emphasis from the well-travelled areas of settler theology, education and history to the less-visited corners, closets and maybe even cellars of the Canadian Pentecostal experience.” Faith Today"A book like this was long overdue! It is a challenge to do justice to a review of The Holy Spirit and the Eagle Feather because of the important contribution of its historical value and its critical interrogation of the legacy of colonization in the missionary work of the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada (PAOC) with Indigenous peoples. At heart, this book celebrates the uniqueness of Indigenous Pentecostalism, a Pentecostalism that remains deeply Indigenous in its character, even as it wrestles with the colonial legacy of Pentecostal missions to Indigenous peoples." Journal of Religious History
£27.90
John Wiley & Sons Before Canada
Book SynopsisTrade Review“This collection builds upon earlier scholarship on Canada’s distant past and pushes resolutely at its boundaries. The variety of topics is dazzling, offering a valuable sample of current research on this elusive period of global history.” Margaret Conrad, University of New Brunswick and author of A Concise History of Canada
£81.90
Columbia University Press Trekking Through History
Book SynopsisThe Huaorani of Ecuador lived as hunters and gatherers in the Amazonian rainforest for hundred of years, largely undisturbed by western civilization. This book provides description of Huaorani society and culture according to modern standards of ethnographic writing.Trade ReviewRival's fascinating ethnography demonstrates that ecological adaptation cannot be understood as resource extraction alone, it is deeply embedded in Huaorani identity, sociality, symbolism, and historicity... Rival's work represents an important contribution to this developing approach. -- Loretta Cormier Journal of Ethnobiology A superb job in addressing issues of native historicity. -- Michael A. Uzendoski Latin American Research Review [Rival's] rich ethnographic analysis and theoretical discussion provide key arguments and materials to re-think further Amazonian people's relationships to the environment. -- Luisa Elvira Belaunde, University of St Andrews Royal Anthropological InstituteTable of ContentsPreface Trekking in Amazonia The Upper Amazon from Omagua expansion to Zaparo collapse The time and space of Huaorani nomadic isolationism Harvesting the Forest's Natural Abundance Coming back to the Longhouse Eeme Festivals: Ceremonial Increase and Marriage Alliance Schools in the Rainforest Prey at the Center
£90.40
Columbia University Press The Columbia Guide to American Indians of the
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA major scholarly work. -- Nancy Lorraine Midwest Book Review A brief yet engaging narrative that touches on the main themes of the region's history. New Mexico Historical ReviewTable of ContentsPreface Maps PART I: HISTORY AND CULTURE 1. Introduction 2. Encounters with Europeans and Mexicans: Trade and Warfare (1529-1853) 3. American Expansion: Trade, Treaties, and Reservations 4. Surrender, Self-Determination, and Sovereignty PART II: PEOPLE, PLACES, AND EVENTS PART III: CHRONOLOGY PART IV: RESOURCES Index
£25.20
Columbia University Press Questioning Borders
Book SynopsisQuestioning Borders explores recent ecoliterature by Han and non-Han Indigenous writers of China and Taiwan, analyzing relations among humans, animals, ecosystems, and the cosmos in search of alternative possibilities for creativity and consciousness.Trade ReviewIn this groundbreaking book, Robin Visser explores the shifting incarnations of the border as a territorial gateway, a contact zone, a liminal terrain, and an imaginary portal. She delves into the intersection of ethnic, cultural, political—and especially ecological—dynamics that inform cartographies and cosmologies of Sinophone states. A fantastic work. -- David Der-wei Wang, author of Why Fiction Matters in Contemporary ChinaA comprehensive and illuminating comparison of Chinese and Indigenous literatures on the border ecologies of China and Taiwan. Questioning Borders sheds light on the power dynamics of China as a settler-colonialist regime in which Indigenous ecocriticism confronts the Chinese imperial geography of center and periphery, which underpins both China’s development strategies and even the most radical Chinese ecoliteratures. -- Uradyn E. Bulag, author of Collaborative Nationalism: The Politics of Friendship on China’s Mongolian FrontierThis illuminating book offers deep insights into the tensions, interactions, and reciprocity among diverse ecologies, ethnicities, humans, and nonhumans. Robin Visser’s brilliant analysis of ecoliterature by Han and Indigenous authors makes this book a must-read for students of environmental humanities. -- Ban Wang, author of At Home in Nature: Technology, Labor, and Critical Ecology in Modern ChinaVisser’s Questioning Borders provides a timely critical intervention that destabilizes the historically established borders and center-periphery relationship within the cultural and political imaginaries of the Hanspace. It offers rich textual studies on Indigenous ecoliteratures in China and Taiwan. A must-read for those interested in Chinese, Sinophone, global, and transnational Indigenous ecocriticism. -- Chia-ju Chang, editor of Chinese Environmental Humanities: Practices of Environing at the MarginsQuestioning Borders radically approaches contemporary literatures of the Chinese world via critical discourses of ecocriticism, global Indigenous studies, and decolonization theory. Incorporating diverse Han majority and ethnic minority writing, the volume charts the emergent Chinese cosmology of the present dynamic era and stimulates deep yet far-ranging conversations. An exciting book. -- Mark Bender, editor of The Borderlands of Asia: Culture, Place, PoetryGroundbreaking . . . Visser’s breathtaking scope is both incredibly ambitious and highly effective. One of the most significant contributions of Questioning Borders is its systematic examination, for the first time in English-language scholarship, of authors writing about nature from less-studied ethnic groups in the field of modern Chinese literature. -- Cheng Li * ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Ecoliteratures Inhabiting Borders1. Beijing Westerns and Hanspace Elixirs in Southwest China2. Grassland Logic and Desert Carbon Imaginaries in Inner Mongolia3. Sacred Routes and Dark Humor in Grounded Xinjiang4. Cosmic Ecologies and Transcendent Tricksters on the Tibetan Plateau5. Island Excursions and Indigenous Waterways in Activist TaiwanEpilogue: Indigenous Entanglements in Techno HypersubjectivityAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
£93.60
Columbia University Press Questioning Borders
Book SynopsisQuestioning Borders explores recent ecoliterature by Han and non-Han Indigenous writers of China and Taiwan, analyzing relations among humans, animals, ecosystems, and the cosmos in search of alternative possibilities for creativity and consciousness.Trade ReviewIn this groundbreaking book, Robin Visser explores the shifting incarnations of the border as a territorial gateway, a contact zone, a liminal terrain, and an imaginary portal. She delves into the intersection of ethnic, cultural, political—and especially ecological—dynamics that inform cartographies and cosmologies of Sinophone states. A fantastic work. -- David Der-wei Wang, author of Why Fiction Matters in Contemporary ChinaA comprehensive and illuminating comparison of Chinese and Indigenous literatures on the border ecologies of China and Taiwan. Questioning Borders sheds light on the power dynamics of China as a settler-colonialist regime in which Indigenous ecocriticism confronts the Chinese imperial geography of center and periphery, which underpins both China’s development strategies and even the most radical Chinese ecoliteratures. -- Uradyn E. Bulag, author of Collaborative Nationalism: The Politics of Friendship on China’s Mongolian FrontierThis illuminating book offers deep insights into the tensions, interactions, and reciprocity among diverse ecologies, ethnicities, humans, and nonhumans. Robin Visser’s brilliant analysis of ecoliterature by Han and Indigenous authors makes this book a must-read for students of environmental humanities. -- Ban Wang, author of At Home in Nature: Technology, Labor, and Critical Ecology in Modern ChinaVisser’s Questioning Borders provides a timely critical intervention that destabilizes the historically established borders and center-periphery relationship within the cultural and political imaginaries of the Hanspace. It offers rich textual studies on Indigenous ecoliteratures in China and Taiwan. A must-read for those interested in Chinese, Sinophone, global, and transnational Indigenous ecocriticism. -- Chia-ju Chang, editor of Chinese Environmental Humanities: Practices of Environing at the MarginsQuestioning Borders radically approaches contemporary literatures of the Chinese world via critical discourses of ecocriticism, global Indigenous studies, and decolonization theory. Incorporating diverse Han majority and ethnic minority writing, the volume charts the emergent Chinese cosmology of the present dynamic era and stimulates deep yet far-ranging conversations. An exciting book. -- Mark Bender, editor of The Borderlands of Asia: Culture, Place, PoetryGroundbreaking . . . Visser’s breathtaking scope is both incredibly ambitious and highly effective. One of the most significant contributions of Questioning Borders is its systematic examination, for the first time in English-language scholarship, of authors writing about nature from less-studied ethnic groups in the field of modern Chinese literature. -- Cheng Li * ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Ecoliteratures Inhabiting Borders1. Beijing Westerns and Hanspace Elixirs in Southwest China2. Grassland Logic and Desert Carbon Imaginaries in Inner Mongolia3. Sacred Routes and Dark Humor in Grounded Xinjiang4. Cosmic Ecologies and Transcendent Tricksters on the Tibetan Plateau5. Island Excursions and Indigenous Waterways in Activist TaiwanEpilogue: Indigenous Entanglements in Techno HypersubjectivityAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press Eyes of the Sky
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MO - University of Illinois Press Native Americans in the Twentieth Century
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A very fine book, much better and more comprehensive than anything now in print which seeks to cover this subject and period." -- Vine Deloria, Jr., author of God is Red and Custer Died for Your Sins
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MO - University of Illinois Press Indians at Hampton Institute 18771923
Book Synopsis'For students of race and culture, this book contains vital information and analysis on the origins of a multicultural society. . . . Lindsey shows the complicated way that one black institution, while still under white control, devised to manage the education and socialization of African and Native American students, not for their needs but in the interests of the broader Anglo-American society.' -- American Historical Review Trade Review"For students of race and culture, this book contains vital information and analysis on the origins of a multicultural society... Lindsey shows the complicated way that one black institution, while still under white control, devised to manage the education and socialization of African and Native American students, not for their needs but in the interests of the broader Anglo-American society." -- American Historical Review
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University of Illinois Press The Standing Bear Controversy PRELUDE TO INDIAN
Book SynopsisExamines how the national publicity surrounding the trial of Chief Standing Bear, as well as a speaking tour by the chief and others, brought the plight of his tribe, and of tribespeople across America, to the attention of the general public, serving as a catalyst for the nineteenth-century Indian reform movement.Trade Review"A stimulating and well-written work. As the only book to deal comprehensively with the developments that flowed from the Standing Bear controversy, it stands to make a significant contribution to American Indian history." --Albert Hurtado, author of Indian Survival on the California Frontier and coeditor of Major Problems in American Indian History "This unique, insightful book draws on a vast array of manuscript, diary, and printed sources, and is the most complete compilation of Standing Bear material under one cover." -- C. Blue Clark, author of Lone Wolf v Hitchcock: Indian Rights at the End of the Nineteenth Century
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MO - University of Illinois Press In the Sierra Madre
Book SynopsisPresents the history of legendary treasure seekers and enigmatic natives in the Sierra Madre of Mexico. This work offers a look into the ways of the resilient indigenous culture in the Americas, the exploits of Mexican mountaineers, and the parade of argonauts and accidental travellers that has journeyed into the Sierra Madre over centuries.Trade ReviewWinner of the Gold medal in the Travel Essays Category for the 2006 ForeWord Book of the Year Awards contest. "An astonishing sojourn into a remote region."--Booklist"In the Sierra Madre introduces us to a host of idiosyncratic customs, numerous unforgettable characters, and situations that only a traveler of this ilk could manage. Biggers is the quintessential observer, with the eye and voice of a poet."--San Antonio Express-News"For those interested in living culture, this book offers a treasury of anecdotes of the clash and blend of old and new."--Guadalajara Reporter“Half a century after the release of the film, Jeff Biggers brings home the true treasure of the Sierra Madre: its stories. Biggers weaves a tapestry of intertwined tales that sheds light on this little-known region. Warm-hearted and compassionate, these stories bring to life the Raramuri.” --Michael Shapiro, author of A Sense of Place: Great Travel Writers Talk about Their Craft, Lives, and Inspiration“Once every generation a book comes along that captures the stunning terrain and hidden life of Mexico’s remote western Sierra Madre. In the Sierra Madre is that book for this generation. Jeff Biggers has seen the strange and remarkable that the rest of us can only imagine.”--Tom Miller, author of The Panama Hat Trail and On the Border"Jeff Biggers has the keenest eye in the business, and he has a fine, luminous voice to tell you what he has seen. This is a welcome addition to western and Mexican letters. Biggers manages to write like a poet, a historian, a naturalist, and an adventurer. His pages are burnished and alive, and I admire his work. You need to read this one soon."--Luis Urrea, author of The Hummingbird's Daughter and The Devil's Highway
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University of Illinois Press New Indians Old Wars
Book SynopsisTrade Review "New Indians, Old Wars is an important addition to the growing works committed to Indigenousness and tribal sovereignties, many of them authored by Native scholars, which Native students - in fact, all students - must read."--Wicazo Sa Review"Cook-Lynn's is an important voice in Indian studies, and this book contains excellent insights into the ways in which this discipline is structured and can move forward. . . . Recommended."--Choice "This passionately argued polemic. . . . [is] recommended for academic libraries supporting programs in Native American studies or U.S. history."--Library Journal"Its careful, though radical, argument is thought-provoking."--True West“In fiercely arguing for a tribal model of Indian studies based on sovereignty and indigenousness, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn brilliantly tells the story of the brutal U.S. colonization of Indian nations as well as its covering up of that history. This new work is as bold as the hard blue sky of Cook-Lynn’s homeland in the northern Plains. It is destined to become a classic of indigenous literature.”--Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie
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University of Illinois Press Indigenous Women and Work
Book Synopsis The essays in Indigenous Women and Work create a transnational and comparative dialogue on the history of the productive and reproductive lives and circumstances of Indigenous women from the late nineteenth century to the present in the United States, Australia, New Zealand/Aotearoa, and Canada. Surveying the spectrum of Indigenous women''s lives and circumstances as workers, both waged and unwaged, the contributors offer varied perspectives on the ways women''s work has contributed to the survival of communities in the face of ongoing tensions between assimilation and colonization. They also interpret how individual nations have conceived of Indigenous women as workers and, in turn, convert these assumptions and definitions into policy and practice. The essays address the intersection of Indigenous, women''s, and labor history, but will also be useful to contemporary policy makers, tribal activists, and Native American women''s advocacy associations. <Trade ReviewA Choice Outstanding Title, 2013. "A much-needed survey of Indigenous women's work in the settler nations of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States from the colonial period to recent times. Williams' collection does some heavy lifting for Indigenous women's comparative labour history. Readers will find its contents incredibly helpful in rounding out an undergraduate history course. . . . The book will no doubt occupy an important place at the intersections of labour and Indigenous history for some time."--Labour/Le Travail "This intellectually engaging anthology compiles an excellent array of essays revolving around Indigenous women's relation to labor in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. The geographic range allows the reader to see the commonalities and differences between women's work experiences in these various national contexts."--Renya K. Ramirez, coeditor of Gendered Citizenships: Transnational Perspectives on Knowledge Production, Political Activism, and Culture"Readers in search of compelling works in the fields of indigenous studies, women's studies, and women's history will find this work to be an absolute treasure. Recommended."--Choice "This book hopes to spark readers to envision a more just way to resist the postcolonial and neoliberal forces that continue to challenge the rights of indigenous women. Throughout history, indigenous women have stood firmly as warriors, preserving the values of culture, family, and community. They stand on the shoulders of the women who have come before them. This book allows their voices to be heard, bringing their wisdom to the call for peace and justice."--Social Service Review"This book of lively and engaging essays looks afresh at the labor relations that have shaped colonizer nations. It provides a cutting-edge text, as well as a useful index, which will guide scholars and students alike."--Western Historical Quarterly "This volume breaks down the divide between wage work and unwaged work and between production and reproduction, thus stretching the boundaries of labor history, women's history and indigenous history all at once, and doing so in a transnational context."--The Journal of American History "Indigenous Women and Work brings important historical information to light about women who have been marginalized and excluded from history,"--Labor Studies Journal "A comprehensive collection of essays spanning the late 18th to late 20th centuries, which detail the lives of working indigenous women in the four settler states of Canada, Australia, New Zealand/Aotearoa and the United States. A broad and rich contribution to the field."--The Canadian Journal of Native Studies Table of ContentsContributors are Tracey Banivanua Mar, Marlene Brant Castellano, Cathleen D. Cahill, Brenda J. Child, Sherry Farrell Racette, Chris Friday, Aroha Harris, Faye Heavy- Shield, Heather A. Howard, Margaret D. Jacobs, Alice Littlefield, Cybele Locke, Mary Jane Logan McCallum, Kathy M'Closkey, Colleen O'Neill, Beth H. Piatote, Susan Roy, Lynette Russell, Joan Sangster, Ruth Taylor, and Carol Williams.
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University of Illinois Press My Curious and Jocular Heroes
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The reader will come away entranced, enchanted and captivated in addition to becoming well-versed in the lives and contributions of the pioneers in Appalachian folklore."--Appalachian Mountain Books"My Curious and Jocular Heroes . . . effectively describes the ways that oral traditions contribute to a sense of place, and it is a fitting tribute to its subjects, who made the compilation of those traditions their life's work." --Journal of Appalachian Studies "The strength of the volume rests in Jones's personal knowledge and analyses of the four men. Beyond that the book is replete with scores of tales, jokes, songs, and close readings of obscure words and their derivation. It is a gold mine for those who appreciate the region's culture." --North Carolina Historical Review ""Anyone who appreciates entertaining stories, plaintive ballads, and ribald humor will enjoy this collection of biographies of four of the pre-eminent folklorists of Appalachia. . . .The charm of the book lies in the ballads, tales, humorous stories and songs accompanying each of the short profiles." --Southeastern Librarian"The strength of Jones's book is his familiarity with each of his subjects, three of whom he knew personally, and two of whom--Williams and Roberts--he knew well. Jones's intimate knowledge of each man and his work makes his scholarly essays about them read more like memoir than scholarship, though the essays are indeed scholarly." --West Virginia History“Loyal Jones’s engaging collection of biographies brings to life four prominent figures of twentieth-century Appalachian folkways whose names will be familiar to many readers but only distantly. This is a major contribution to the study of America’s most distinctive regional culture.”—Norm Cohen, author of Long Steel Rail: The Railroad in American Folksong"The colorful tales, anecdotes, word lore, customs, riddles, and songs that Loyal Jones has chosen bring us into the humor, accents, and often ribald color that marks our first frontier and its inhabitants."—Stephen Wade, author of The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience
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University of Illinois Press Mascot Nation
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewOutstanding Book Award, Communication and Sport Division of the National Communication Association, 2019 Best Book Award, American Studies Division of the National Communication Association, 2019 ". . . thoughtful, well-researched analysis. . . . This book makes an important contribution to communication scholarship." --Journal of Communication"An exciting project that promises to impact understandings of Native American mascots in powerful ways. Mascot Nation provides fresh perspectives on the use of American Indian imagery in sport. Rather than restate existing arguments in the ongoing controversy, Billings and Black weave together established understandings and new empirical research to clarify not simply what mascots mean but also how they matter in sport and society. Of particular note, they craft a well-rounded and fully grounded account by engaging with people and perspectives from all sides of the controversy. Mascot Nation will become essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the study and struggle over Native American mascots. It will soon come to be seen as an exemplar for the study of sport communications."--C. Richard King, author of Redskins: Insult and Brand"Valuable . . . Examine[s] all sides of the issue with an objective eye."--Booklist"Mascot Nation is a welcome addition to the literature on the Native American mascot controversy. Well researched and clearly written, this account offers a novel, interdisciplinary, multidimensional approach. Recommended." --Choice"Mascot Nation fills a gap by casting a wide net and offering conclusions backed by the diverse cast of disciplines that are engaged in mascot research." --H-Net Reviews"In Mascot Nation, Andrew Billings and Jason Black have taken on an enduring controversy in the study of sport and culture. Their savvy multi-method study illuminates how embedded representations of Native American mascots have built historical affinities that fans have for sports teams and highlights the important role that media has played in constructing and celebrating problematic understandings of Native Americans and their traditions. Through careful deconstruction of the central tendencies in case studies of media practices and the debates around them, this is a seminal study that will challenge sports fans to reconsider the harms in the legacies that have naturalized misunderstandings of Native American cultures."--Lawrence Wenner, editor-in-chief, Communication & Sport
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University of Illinois Press Black Indians and Freedmen
Book SynopsisOften seen as ethnically monolithic, the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in fact successfully pursued evangelism among diverse communities of indigenous peoples and Black Indians. Christina Dickerson-Cousin tells the little-known story of the AME Church's work in Indian Territory, where African Methodists engaged with people from the Five Civilized Tribes (Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, and Seminoles) and Black Indians from various ethnic backgrounds. These converts proved receptive to the historically Black church due to its traditions of self-government and resistance to white hegemony, and its strong support of their interests. The ministers, guided by the vision of a racially and ethnically inclusive Methodist institution, believed their denomination the best option for the marginalized people. Dickerson-Cousin also argues that the religious opportunities opened up by the AME Church throughout the West provided another impetus for Black migration. Insightful and Trade Review"An excellent study that analyzes the role of the AME Church members in westward expansion and migration who provided stability and institution building to many Black settlements in the West, incorporated Black Indians within the larger African American community, and evangelized among Native American populations."--Lawrence S. Little, author of Disciples of Liberty: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the Age of Imperialism, 1884-1916Table of ContentsPreface ixAcknowledgments xiA Note on Terminology xiiiIntroduction: The Drums of Nonnemontubbi 11 Richard Allen, John Stewart, and Jarena Lee: Writing Indigenous Outreach into the DNA of the AME Church, 1816–1830 122 Seeking Their Cousins: The AME Ministries of Thomas Sunrise and John Hall, 1850–1896 343 The African Methodist Migration and the All-Black Town Movement 574 “Ham Began . . . to Evangelize Japheth”: The Birth of African Methodism in Indian Territory 825 “Blazing Out the Way”: The Ministers of the Indian Mission Annual Conference 1006 Conferences, Churches, Schools, and Publications: Creating an AME Church Infrastructure in Indian Territory 1197 “All the Rights . . . of Citizens”: African Methodists and the Dawes Commission 154Notes 173Index 227
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