Indigenous peoples / Indigeneity Books
The University of North Carolina Press Converging Empires Citizens and Subjects in the
Book SynopsisMaking a vital contribution to our understanding of North American borderlands history through an examination of the northernmost stretches of the US-Canada border, Andrea Geiger highlights the role that the North Pacific borderlands played in the construction of race and citizenship on both sides of the border from 1867 to the end of World War II.
£25.46
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The People of the River Nature and Identity in Black Amazonia 18351945
Book SynopsisIn this history of the black peasants of Amazonia, Oscar de la Torre focuses on the experience of African-descended people navigating the transition from slavery to freedom. Drawing on social and environmental history, he connects the Amazonians intimately to their natural landscapes.
£73.50
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The People of the River Nature and Identity in Black Amazonia 18351945
Book SynopsisIn this history of the black peasants of Amazonia, Oscar de la Torre focuses on the experience of African-descended people navigating the transition from slavery to freedom. Drawing on social and environmental history, he connects the Amazonians intimately to their natural landscapes.
£30.36
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Crafting an Indigenous Nation Kiowa Expressive
Book SynopsisReveals how Kiowa people drew on the tribe's rich history of expressive culture to assert its identity at a time of profound challenge. Examining traditional forms such as beadwork, metalwork, painting, and dance, Jenny Tone-Pah-Hote argues that their creation and exchange were as significant to the expression of Indigenous identity and sovereignty as formal political engagement.
£26.36
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Literary Indians Aesthetics and Encounter in
Book SynopsisAlthough cross-cultural encounter is often considered an economic or political matter, beauty, taste, and artistry were central to cultural exchange and political negotiation in early and nineteenth-century America. Contextualizing American writing in Indigenous space, Literary Indians highlights the significance of Indigenous aesthetic practice to American literary production.
£73.50
The University of North Carolina Press Reproduction on the Reservation
Book SynopsisDocuments the transformation of reproductive practices and politics on Indian reservations from the late nineteenth century to the present, integrating a localized history of childbearing, motherhood, and activism on the Crow Reservation in Montana with an analysis of trends affecting Indigenous women more broadly.
£73.50
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Reproduction on the Reservation Pregnancy Childbirth and Colonialism in the Long Twentieth Century
Book SynopsisDocuments the transformation of reproductive practices and politics on Indian reservations from the late nineteenth century to the present, integrating a localized history of childbearing, motherhood, and activism on the Crow Reservation in Montana with an analysis of trends affecting Indigenous women more broadly.
£999.99
The University of North Carolina Press With Masses and Arms
Book SynopsisMiguel La Serna's gripping history of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) provides vital insight into both the history of modern Peru and the link between political violence and the culture of communications in Latin America.
£30.36
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Converging Empires Citizens and Subjects in the
Book SynopsisMaking a vital contribution to our understanding of North American borderlands history through an examination of the northernmost stretches of the US-Canada border, Andrea Geiger highlights the role that the North Pacific borderlands played in the construction of race and citizenship on both sides of the border from 1867 to the end of World War II.
£70.50
The University of North Carolina Press Choctaw Confederates
Book SynopsisAvid supporters of the Confederate States of America, the Choctaw Nation passed a measure requiring all whites living in its territory to swear allegiance to the Confederacy. In Choctaw Confederates, Fay Yarbrough reveals that the survival of slavery was what determined the Nation's support of the Confederacy.
£26.06
The University of North Carolina Press Citizens of a Stolen Land
Book SynopsisA history of Ho-Chunk sovereignty and citizenship that offers a bracing new perspective on citizenship's perils and promises, the way the broader nineteenth-century conflict between free soil' and slaveholding expansion shaped Indigenous life, and the continuing impact of Native people's struggles and claims on US politics and society.
£69.70
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Citizens of a Stolen Land A HoChunk History of
Book SynopsisA history of Ho-Chunk sovereignty and citizenship that offers a bracing new perspective on citizenship's perils and promises, the way the broader nineteenth-century conflict between free soil' and slaveholding expansion shaped Indigenous life, and the continuing impact of Native people's struggles and claims on US politics and society.
£21.21
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The CuttingOff Way Indigenous Warfare in Eastern
Book SynopsisIn a mix of classic and new essays, Wayne Lee shows that Indigenous people lacked deep reserves of population systems for coercive military recruitment and as such were wary of heavy casualties. Instead, they generally sought to surprise their targets, and the size of the target varied with the size of the attacking force.Trade ReviewAn ambitious and thoughtful reassessment of Native American war-making before and after permanent European settlement in the early 17th century...Lee draws upon extensive new evidence to engage with existing scholarship and investigate previously unexplored territory."—Wall Street Journal One of the benefits of studying the military histories of non-European groups is that it reminds us that there are very different means of waging war, as well as reasons for doing so. In The Cutting-Off Way, Wayne E. Lee argues that the fluid, Native American style of war was quite alien to the European soldiers who encountered it . . . . The aims of their wars were also different, argues Lee."—New York Times Book Review
£69.70
The University of North Carolina Press Race Removal and the Right to Remain Migration
Book SynopsisReorienting the history of US expansion around Native American and African American histories, Samantha Seeley provides a much-needed reconsideration of early nation building.
£34.42
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Muddy Ground Native Peoples Chicagos Portage and
Book SynopsisCharts the many peoples that traversed and sought power along Chicago’s portage paths from the seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries, including Indigenous Illinois traders, French explorers, Jesuit missionaries, Meskwaki warriors, British officers, Anishinaabe headmen, and American settlers.
£73.50
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Muddy Ground Native Peoples Chicagos Portage and
Book SynopsisCharts the many peoples that traversed and sought power along Chicago’s portage paths from the seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries, including Indigenous Illinois traders, French explorers, Jesuit missionaries, Meskwaki warriors, British officers, Anishinaabe headmen, and American settlers.
£23.96
University of Texas Press With the Saraguros
Book SynopsisThe first humanistic portrait of life among the Saraguros of southern Ecuador is woven with a meditative self-reflection on the author's role as anthropologist and the role of cross-cultural understanding itself in the Andean Highlands and beyond.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Prologue: Advice to a Technopelli 1. Attuning and the Development of an Approach to Fieldwork Interlude 1. Three Images of Technopelli 2. A Necklace, a Metaphor, and the Saraguro Context 3. La Vida Matizada and Work Life in a Globalizing Society Interlude 2. A House in Three Different Times 4. Weaving la Vida Matizada: Beadwork and Cooperatives in Saraguro Women’s Lives Interlude 3. Los Caracoles: Travels and Transformations of Aesthetic Ideas 5. Sweet Water and Exotic Fish: Ecological Imaginations in a World of Traveling Creatures Interlude 4. Empty Doorways and Shadowy Figures: Anthropologist as Accidental Business Consultant 6. On the Development and Value of an Anthropological Consciousness Epilogue: A Story for a Technopelli’s Last Hour in Town References Index
£15.19
University of Texas Press Predatory Economies The Sanema and the Socialist
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£66.60
Duke University Press Ethnographies of U.S. Empire
Book SynopsisThe contributors to Ethnographies of U.S. Empire examine how people live in and with empire, presenting ethnographic scholarship from across U.S. imperial formations, from the Mohawk Nation, Korea, and the Philippines to Guantánamo and the hills of New Jersey.Trade Review"Ethnographies of U.S. Empire cover[s] myriad aspects of American life and history, from American conduct in dealing with indigenous peoples to the Iran-Contra conspiracy and the War on Terror. . . . The nearly 50-page bibliography offers a sturdy jumping-off point for further study. . . . Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty." -- S.J. Zuber-Chall * Choice *"These essays raise important questions not always broached by historians, particularly the consequences and materiality of rumor, conspiracy, epistemology, and neoliberalism. The volume will be useful for students and scholars of U.S. empire, and it encourages interdisciplinary conversations between historians and anthropologists." -- Jana Kate Lipman * Journal of American History *"Beyond the scholarship on specific themes or geographic areas, each chapter does an excellent job of locating the lived experiences in particular places within the overall context of empire. The book offers a strong refutation of the idea that postmodern empires are uniform or deterritorial. Its strength is the methodology of placing peoples’ ideas and actions within the wider context of global forces." -- Lanny Thompson * New West Indian Guide *"These essays raise important questions not always broached by historians, particularly the consequences and materiality of rumor, conspiracy, epistemology, and neoliberalism. The volume will be useful for students and scholars of U.S. empire, and it encourages interdisciplinary conversations between historians and anthropologists." -- Jana Kate Lipman * Journal of American History *"Engaging emerging, multidisciplinary conversations across anthropology, American studies, and postcolonial studies about how empire operates and endures, Ethnographies of U.S. Empire is a reflection both on empire and on ethnography. Together, the chapters make a case for ethnographic research as a way of studying empire, as a method that offers not a bounded or concise definition of what makes an empire, but rather an expansive sense of how people live with and within the imperial present." -- Emma Shaw Crane * Society & Space *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Ethnography and U.S. Empire / John F. Collins and Carole McGranahan 1 I. Settlement, Sentiment, Sovereignty 1. The "Affects" of Empire: (Dis)trust among Osage Annuitants / Jean Dennison 27 2. Milking the Cow for All It's Worth: Settler Colonialism and the Politics of Imperialist Resentment in Hawaiʻi / J. Kēhaulani Kauanui 47 3. Sovereignty, Sympathy, and Indigeneity / Audra Simpson 72 II. Colonialism by Any Other Name 4. A School of Addicts: The Coloniality of Addiction in Puerto Rico / Adriana María Garriga-López 93 5. Inhabiting the Aporias of Empire: Protest Politics in Contemporary Puerto Rico / Melissa Rosario 112 6. Training for Empire?: Samoa and American Gridiron Football / Faʻanofo Lisaclaire Uperesa 129 7. Exceptionalism as a Way of Life: U.S. Empire, Filipino Subjectivity, and the Global Call Center Industry / Jan M. Padios 149 III. Temporality, Proximity, Dispersion 8. In Their Place: Cottica Ndyuka in Moengo / Olívia Maria Gomes da Cunha 173 9. Shifting Geographies of Proximity: Korean-led Evangelical Christian Missions and the U.S. Empire / Ju Hui Judy Han 194 10. Sites of the Postcolonial Cold War / Heonik Kwon 214 11. Time Standards and Rhizomatic Imperialism / Kevin K. Birth 227 IV. Military Promises 12. Islands of Imperialism: Military Bases and the Ethnography of U.S. Empire / David Vine 249 13. Domesticating the U.S. Air Force: The Challenges of Anti-Military Activism in Manta, Ecuador / Erin Fitz-Henry 270 14. The Empire of Choice and the Emergence of Military Dissent / Matthew Gutmann and Catherine Lutz 291 V. Residue, Rumors, Remnants 15. Locating Landmines in the Korean Demilitarized Zone / Eleana Kim 313 16. Love and Empire: The CIA, Tibet, and Covert Humanitarianism / Carole McGranahan 333 17. Trust Us: Nicaragua, Iran-Contra, and the Discursive Economy of Empire / Joe Bryan 350 18. Empire as Accusation, Denial, and Structure: The Social Life of U.S. Power at Brazil's Spaceport / Sean T. Mitchell 369 VI. 9/11, The War on Terror, and the Return of Empire 19. Radicalizing Empire: Youth and Dissent in the War on Terror / Sunaina Maria 391 20. Deporting Cambodian Refugees: Youth Activism, State Reform, and Imperial Statecraft / Soo Ah Kwon 411 21. Hunters of the Sourlands: Empire and Displacement in Highland New Jersey / John F. Collins 431 22. From Exception to Empire: Sovereignty, Carceral Circulation, and the "Global War on Terror" / Darryl Li 456 Afterword. Disassemblage: Rethinking U.S. Imperial Formations / Ann Laura Stoler in conversation with Carole McGranahan 477 Bibliography 491 Contributors 539 Index 541
£112.20
Duke University Press Ethnographies of U.S. Empire
Book SynopsisThe contributors to Ethnographies of U.S. Empire examine how people live in and with empire, presenting ethnographic scholarship from across U.S. imperial formations, from the Mohawk Nation, Korea, and the Philippines to Guantánamo and the hills of New Jersey.Trade Review"Ethnographies of U.S. Empire cover[s] myriad aspects of American life and history, from American conduct in dealing with indigenous peoples to the Iran-Contra conspiracy and the War on Terror. . . . The nearly 50-page bibliography offers a sturdy jumping-off point for further study. . . . Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty." -- S.J. Zuber-Chall * Choice *"These essays raise important questions not always broached by historians, particularly the consequences and materiality of rumor, conspiracy, epistemology, and neoliberalism. The volume will be useful for students and scholars of U.S. empire, and it encourages interdisciplinary conversations between historians and anthropologists." -- Jana Kate Lipman * Journal of American History *"Beyond the scholarship on specific themes or geographic areas, each chapter does an excellent job of locating the lived experiences in particular places within the overall context of empire. The book offers a strong refutation of the idea that postmodern empires are uniform or deterritorial. Its strength is the methodology of placing peoples’ ideas and actions within the wider context of global forces." -- Lanny Thompson * New West Indian Guide *"These essays raise important questions not always broached by historians, particularly the consequences and materiality of rumor, conspiracy, epistemology, and neoliberalism. The volume will be useful for students and scholars of U.S. empire, and it encourages interdisciplinary conversations between historians and anthropologists." -- Jana Kate Lipman * Journal of American History *"Engaging emerging, multidisciplinary conversations across anthropology, American studies, and postcolonial studies about how empire operates and endures, Ethnographies of U.S. Empire is a reflection both on empire and on ethnography. Together, the chapters make a case for ethnographic research as a way of studying empire, as a method that offers not a bounded or concise definition of what makes an empire, but rather an expansive sense of how people live with and within the imperial present." -- Emma Shaw Crane * Society & Space *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Ethnography and U.S. Empire / John F. Collins and Carole McGranahan 1 I. Settlement, Sentiment, Sovereignty 1. The "Affects" of Empire: (Dis)trust among Osage Annuitants / Jean Dennison 27 2. Milking the Cow for All It's Worth: Settler Colonialism and the Politics of Imperialist Resentment in Hawaiʻi / J. Kēhaulani Kauanui 47 3. Sovereignty, Sympathy, and Indigeneity / Audra Simpson 72 II. Colonialism by Any Other Name 4. A School of Addicts: The Coloniality of Addiction in Puerto Rico / Adriana María Garriga-López 93 5. Inhabiting the Aporias of Empire: Protest Politics in Contemporary Puerto Rico / Melissa Rosario 112 6. Training for Empire?: Samoa and American Gridiron Football / Faʻanofo Lisaclaire Uperesa 129 7. Exceptionalism as a Way of Life: U.S. Empire, Filipino Subjectivity, and the Global Call Center Industry / Jan M. Padios 149 III. Temporality, Proximity, Dispersion 8. In Their Place: Cottica Ndyuka in Moengo / Olívia Maria Gomes da Cunha 173 9. Shifting Geographies of Proximity: Korean-led Evangelical Christian Missions and the U.S. Empire / Ju Hui Judy Han 194 10. Sites of the Postcolonial Cold War / Heonik Kwon 214 11. Time Standards and Rhizomatic Imperialism / Kevin K. Birth 227 IV. Military Promises 12. Islands of Imperialism: Military Bases and the Ethnography of U.S. Empire / David Vine 249 13. Domesticating the U.S. Air Force: The Challenges of Anti-Military Activism in Manta, Ecuador / Erin Fitz-Henry 270 14. The Empire of Choice and the Emergence of Military Dissent / Matthew Gutmann and Catherine Lutz 291 V. Residue, Rumors, Remnants 15. Locating Landmines in the Korean Demilitarized Zone / Eleana Kim 313 16. Love and Empire: The CIA, Tibet, and Covert Humanitarianism / Carole McGranahan 333 17. Trust Us: Nicaragua, Iran-Contra, and the Discursive Economy of Empire / Joe Bryan 350 18. Empire as Accusation, Denial, and Structure: The Social Life of U.S. Power at Brazil's Spaceport / Sean T. Mitchell 369 VI. 9/11, The War on Terror, and the Return of Empire 19. Radicalizing Empire: Youth and Dissent in the War on Terror / Sunaina Maria 391 20. Deporting Cambodian Refugees: Youth Activism, State Reform, and Imperial Statecraft / Soo Ah Kwon 411 21. Hunters of the Sourlands: Empire and Displacement in Highland New Jersey / John F. Collins 431 22. From Exception to Empire: Sovereignty, Carceral Circulation, and the "Global War on Terror" / Darryl Li 456 Afterword. Disassemblage: Rethinking U.S. Imperial Formations / Ann Laura Stoler in conversation with Carole McGranahan 477 Bibliography 491 Contributors 539 Index 541
£27.90
Duke University Press Unsustainable Empire
Book SynopsisIn a bold challenge to conventional understandings of Hawai‘i’s admission as a U.S. state. Dean Saranillio tracks the disparate stories different groups tell about Hawaiian statehood by returning to historical flashpoints ranging from the turn of the century until shortly after 1959.Trade Review"[Unsustainable Empire is] a very powerful book with which to teach about what it means to work across social movements." -- Jaskiran Dhillon * Edge Effects *"Unsustainable Empire adds to scholarship on American nation-building, settler colonialism, statehood histories, and public relations politics and propaganda. The book should be a welcome addition to introductory-level history courses that deal with American empire or history and memory." -- Julie Hawks * Journal of American Culture *"[Unsustainable Empire] is instructive for its truly intersectional analysis of white and Asian settler colonialisms, U.S. imperialism, and heteropatriarchy, as well as many exciting passages on Hawai‘i's militant labor movement.… The book is an urgent call to expose the web of lies that empire is built on so we can build truly sustainable futures that respect Indigenous values, land, and leadership." -- Kim Compoc * Native American and Indigenous Studies *"Perhaps Saranillio’s most significant contribution is his rigorous theoretical analysis of settler colonialism and capitalism. . . . The most hopeful aspects of Saranillio’s work are the alternative futures made possible by a fuller understanding of Hawai‘i’s complex history. Such messaging is both necessarily encouraging and eminently useful for intellectuals employing decolonial methodologies—particularly those in settler-colonial contexts—and all those who seek a decolonized Hawai‘i." -- Shannon Pomaika‘i Hennessey * The Contemporary Pacific *Table of ContentsPreface. "Statehood Sucks" ix Acknowledgments xxi Introduction. Colliding Futures of Hawai‘i Statehood 1 1. A Future Wish: Hawai‘i at the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition 31 2. The Courage to Speak: Disrupting Haole Hegemony at the 1937 Congressional Statehood Hearings 67 3. "Something Indefinable Would Be Lost": The Unruly Kamokila and Go for Broke! 99 4. The Propaganda of Occupation: Statehood and the Cold War 131 5. Alternative Futures beyond the Settler State 171 Conclusion. Scenes of Resurgence: Slow Violence and Slow Resistance 197 Notes 211 Bibliography 245 Index 267
£75.65
Duke University Press A World of Many Worlds
Book SynopsisDrawing on indigenous social movements and politics, this volume's contributors question Western epistemologies, theorize new forms of knowledge production, and critique the presumed divide between nature and cultureall in service of creating a pluriverse: a cosmos composed of many worlds partially connected through divergent political practices.Trade Review"The strength of this book is its presentation and varied discussion of the omission of all of the 'other-than-human-persons' who comprise the heterogeneity of cultures that form worlds beyond the Anthropocene. . . . This book provides excellent fodder for readers to reflexively consider their individual roles in the global knowledge-making process, the outcomes they create (and are creating), and the frames within which they dwell." -- Sally A. Applin * Journal of International and Global Studies *“A World of Many Worlds is a rich and welcome collection of essays that offers a complex and exploratory response to a timely problematic. Its statement is forthright and hallmark....” -- Mat Keel * AAG Review of Books *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Pluriverse: Proposals for a World of Many Worlds / Mario Blaser and Marisol de la Cadena 1 1. Opening Up Relations / Marilyn Strathern 23 2. Spiderweb Anthropologies: Ecologies, Infrastructures, Entanglements / Alberto Corsín Jiménez 53 3. The Challenge of Ontological Politics / Isabelle Stengers 83 4. The Politics of Working Cosmologies Together While Keeping Them Separate / Helen Verran 112 5. Denaturalizing Nature / John Law and Marianne Lien 131 6. Humans and Terrans in the Gaia War / Eduardo Viveiros de Castro and Deborah Danowski 172 Contributors 205 Index 209
£72.25
Duke University Press Sacred Men
Book SynopsisKeith L. Camacho examines the U.S. Navy's war crimes tribunal in Guam between 1944 and 1949 which tried members of Guam's indigenous Chamorro community and Japanese nationals and its role in shaping contemporary domestic and international laws regarding combatants, jurisdiction, and property.Trade Review“Sacred Men is a truly singular work of immense importance. It is original, compelling, and fiercely thought-provoking. Through a theoretical engagement with the Chamorro, Rotanese, and Saipanese indigenous epistemologies, Keith L. Camacho has brought the discussion of U.S. empire, law, sovereignty, militarism, and the working of carceral power to an entirely new horizon in ways no other scholar has done. A pathbreaking, field-shifting intervention.” -- Lisa Yoneyama, author of * Cold War Ruins: Transpacific Critique of American Justice and Japanese War Crimes *“Exceedingly engaging, theoretically accomplished, and incisively researched, Sacred Men unravels the 1944 U.S. military tribunal in Guam, which included the prosecution and torture of Chamorro indigenes. Employing Agamben's homo sacer, Keith L. Camacho provides a razor-sharp analysis of the tribunal as a very real ‘bare life’ event but also as a metaphor for the murder, torture, and foreclosure of political life that has occurred throughout the colonies as ‘states of exception.’” -- Brendan Hokowhitu, coeditor of * The Fourth Eye: Maori Media in Aotearoa New Zealand *"Provocative and engaging, Camacho’s work not only breaks new ground in postcolonial and transpacific studies, but also calls attention to the role that Chamorro, Rotanese, and Saipanese indigenous epistemologies may play in the decolonization and deimperialization of US-occupied Guam." -- Y. Shu * Choice *“Author Keith Camacho is especially interested in developing an analysis of law, justice, incarceration, and punishment in colonial situations...and in weaving this theoretical apparatus into the longer and larger history of US colonial rule in both North America and abroad.... [P]ath-breaking work...” -- Glenn Petersen * Pacific Affairs *“Camacho’s intricately researched and powerfully theorized book Sacred Men is the first to examine, at close range, the U.S. Navy trials of Japanese and native people in Guam before and after 1945.... [It] should be required reading for all graduate students and scholars of war, justice, and the American empire in the Pacific.” -- Franziska Seraphim * Journal of Military History *“Sacred Men makes crucial theoretical, methodological, and historiographical interventions into carceral studies, Indigenous studies, and studies of U.S. empire and militarism.... Sacred Men is an essential resource for scholars of Indigenous peoples, especially those separated by political regimes and imperial boundaries." -- Kristin Oberiano * Amerasia Journal *“Through uncovering these once buried stories, Camacho illustrates a wide range of human responses to the pressures of war and colonial domination. . . . Sacred Men will prove to be a welcome addition to the cannon of Marianas history.” -- Michael R. Clement Jr. * Small States & Territories *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Part I. The State of Exception 1. War Bodies 29 2. War Crimes 60 Part II. The Bird and the Lizard 3. Native Assailants 89 4. Native Murderers 116 Part III. The Military Colony 5. Japanese Traitors 149 6. Japanese Militarists 181 Conclusion 215 Notes 225 Bibliography 269 Index 283
£98.60
Duke University Press Mesoamerican Experiences of Illness and Healing
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£11.39
Duke University Press Sacred Men
Book SynopsisKeith L. Camacho examines the U.S. Navy's war crimes tribunal in Guam between 1944 and 1949 which tried members of Guam's indigenous Chamorro community and Japanese nationals and its role in shaping contemporary domestic and international laws regarding combatants, jurisdiction, and property.Trade Review“Sacred Men is a truly singular work of immense importance. It is original, compelling, and fiercely thought-provoking. Through a theoretical engagement with the Chamorro, Rotanese, and Saipanese indigenous epistemologies, Keith L. Camacho has brought the discussion of U.S. empire, law, sovereignty, militarism, and the working of carceral power to an entirely new horizon in ways no other scholar has done. A pathbreaking, field-shifting intervention.” -- Lisa Yoneyama, author of * Cold War Ruins: Transpacific Critique of American Justice and Japanese War Crimes *“Exceedingly engaging, theoretically accomplished, and incisively researched, Sacred Men unravels the 1944 U.S. military tribunal in Guam, which included the prosecution and torture of Chamorro indigenes. Employing Agamben's homo sacer, Keith L. Camacho provides a razor-sharp analysis of the tribunal as a very real ‘bare life’ event but also as a metaphor for the murder, torture, and foreclosure of political life that has occurred throughout the colonies as ‘states of exception.’” -- Brendan Hokowhitu, coeditor of * The Fourth Eye: Maori Media in Aotearoa New Zealand *"Provocative and engaging, Camacho’s work not only breaks new ground in postcolonial and transpacific studies, but also calls attention to the role that Chamorro, Rotanese, and Saipanese indigenous epistemologies may play in the decolonization and deimperialization of US-occupied Guam." -- Y. Shu * Choice *“Author Keith Camacho is especially interested in developing an analysis of law, justice, incarceration, and punishment in colonial situations...and in weaving this theoretical apparatus into the longer and larger history of US colonial rule in both North America and abroad.... [P]ath-breaking work...” -- Glenn Petersen * Pacific Affairs *“Camacho’s intricately researched and powerfully theorized book Sacred Men is the first to examine, at close range, the U.S. Navy trials of Japanese and native people in Guam before and after 1945.... [It] should be required reading for all graduate students and scholars of war, justice, and the American empire in the Pacific.” -- Franziska Seraphim * Journal of Military History *“Sacred Men makes crucial theoretical, methodological, and historiographical interventions into carceral studies, Indigenous studies, and studies of U.S. empire and militarism.... Sacred Men is an essential resource for scholars of Indigenous peoples, especially those separated by political regimes and imperial boundaries." -- Kristin Oberiano * Amerasia Journal *“Through uncovering these once buried stories, Camacho illustrates a wide range of human responses to the pressures of war and colonial domination. . . . Sacred Men will prove to be a welcome addition to the cannon of Marianas history.” -- Michael R. Clement Jr. * Small States & Territories *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Part I. The State of Exception 1. War Bodies 29 2. War Crimes 60 Part II. The Bird and the Lizard 3. Native Assailants 89 4. Native Murderers 116 Part III. The Military Colony 5. Japanese Traitors 149 6. Japanese Militarists 181 Conclusion 215 Notes 225 Bibliography 269 Index 283
£25.19
Duke University Press Biopolitics of the MoreThanHuman
Book SynopsisIn Biopolitics of the More-Than-Human Joseph Pugliese examines the concept of the biopolitical through a nonanthropocentric lens, arguing that more-than-human entities—from soil and orchards to animals and water—are actors and agents in their own right with legitimate claims to justice. Examining occupied Palestine, Guantánamo, and sites of US drone strikes in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, and Yemen, Pugliese challenges notions of human exceptionalism by arguing that more-than-human victims of war and colonialism are entangled with and subject to the same violent biopolitical regimes as humans. He also draws on Indigenous epistemologies that invest more-than-human entities with judicial standing to argue for an ethico-legal framework that will enable the realization of ecological justice. Bringing the more-than-human world into the purview of justice, Pugliese makes visible the ecological effects of human war that would otherwise remain outside the domains oTrade Review“A mesmerizing exploration of the more-than-human dimensions of later modern war that is never less than deeply human. Linguistically inventive, analytically sobering—you keep wondering why it has taken us so long to see like this—Joseph Pugliese's vision of forensic ecology initiates an arrestingly novel critique of military violence. At once profoundly political and deeply ethical, this is a magnificently vital achievement.” -- Derek Gregory, Peter Wall Distinguished Professor and Professor of Geography, University of British Columbia“Joseph Pugliese’s reconfiguration of biopolitics does not simply take the politics of populations and life and extend its range to include the more-than-human; the very threshold between the human and ‘other’ life-forms falls away. What is revealed is a new political-legal ethics entirely: not a question of how ‘we’ humans grant rights to others, but of how the more-than-human offers itself as an imperative to rethink the anthropocentrism of European law. Exploring Indigenous and non-Western cosmologies provides a way to think about life, value, and politics that does not rely on the dignity of the human and its concomitant violence for all that is other-than-human. It is rare to read a book that combines such theoretical dexterity with fascinating empirical analysis of some of our most pressing ethical issues.” -- Claire Colebrook, author of * Death of the PostHuman: Essays on Extinction *"Pugliese’s book makes a valuable contribution to the fields of critical legal studies, critical security studies, and geopolitical ecology. . . . He admirably weaves a decolonial lens with new materialism and draws effectively on Indigenous cosmoepistemologies to expand the way we conceptualize, perceive, and feel these forms of more-than-human violence.” -- Michael J. Albert * Law, Culture, and the Humanities *"Pugliese's retheorization of biopolitics offers new ways of understanding military violence by attending to the different technologies used to manage life and death. . . . Pugliese's interventions powerfully unearth the 'forensic ecologies of saturated violence,' their more-than-human witnesses, and their possibilities for resistance." -- Nicole Nguyen * Journal of Palestine Studies *"Biopolitics of the More-Than-Human contributes to debates on violence and conflict in environmental politics on whether and why Israeli occupation, settler colonialism, anti-black racism, and US toxic militarism should be challenged as environmental justice problems. Moreover, this book helps educators to teach Foucauldian discourse, biopolitics, and power relations through a critical postcolonial lens via a life and death example that is still occurring every single day." -- Rezvaneh Erfani * Postcolonial Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Zoopolitics of the Cage 39 2. Biopolitical Modalities of the More-Than-Human and Their Forensic Ecologies 81 3. Animal Excendence and Inanimal Torture 124 4. Drone Sparagmos 166 Afterword 203 Notes 217 Bibliography 255 Index
£75.65
Duke University Press Otherwise Worlds
Book SynopsisThe contributors to Otherwise Worlds investigate the complex relationships between settler colonialism and anti-Blackness to explore the political possibilities that emerge from such inquiries. Pointing out that presumptions of solidarity, antagonism, or incommensurability between Black and Native communities are insufficient to understand the relationships between the groups, the volume''s scholars, artists, and activists look to articulate new modes of living and organizing in the service of creating new futures. Among other topics, they examine the ontological status of Blackness and Indigeneity, possible forms of relationality between Black and Native communities, perspectives on Black and Indigenous sociality, and freeing the flesh from the constraints of violence and settler colonialism. Throughout the volume''s essays, art, and interviews, the contributors carefully attend to alternative kinds of relationships between Black and Native communities that can lead toward libeTrade Review“Ambitious, theoretically sophisticated, and timely, Otherwise Worlds stages a much-needed conversation between Black studies and Native studies as they interface with critical race theory and gender and queer theory while significantly advancing the discourses around racialized being, anti-blackness, Indigeneity, and settler colonialism.” -- Alexander G. Weheliye, author of * Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human *“Presenting new analyses and theorizations of the intersections and tensions between Black studies and Native studies, Otherwise Worlds shows how these fields can speak and think with each other. It has the potential to serve as a model of decolonial love in the academy and in our communities.” -- Michelle Jacob, author of * Indian Pilgrims: Indigenous Journeys of Activism and Healing with Saint Kateri Tekakwitha *"There is so much to admire about this book. I am making my way through each section slowly. Artists, activists and scholars frame the questions, complexities and possibilities an 'otherwise' orientation might open up, if we find better and better ways of ‘thinking of, caring for and talking to one another’ about the ongoing effects of genocide, colonialism, enslavement and anti-Blackness." -- Julia Guez * Houston Chronicle *“Otherwise Worlds offers a thought-provoking guide towards re-imagining the presence, resurgence and future of Black and Indigenous life…. Otherwise Worlds is an outstanding piece of academic work and a remarkable guide to approaching alternative worlds beyond racism, ecological destruction and racial capitalism.” -- Laura Mariana Reyes * Cultural Studies *“This collection is truly a conversation between disciplines and paves the way for new ways of relating to one another. Otherwise Worlds is a compelling collection that does what it sets out to do.” -- Alina Scott * E3W Review of Books *“Otherwise Worlds is a call to think beyond ourselves and curate an authentic relation to the scholarship, the land, and mainly the people. A major takeaway from each interview, essay, and artwork in this volume is the range of interdisciplinarity needed to capture the complexity of this discourse of sovereignty and liberation across the diaspora.” -- Daisy E. Guzman Nunez * NACLA Report on the Americas *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Beyond Incommensurability: Toward an Otherwise Stance on Black and Indigenous Relationality / Tiffany Lethabo King, Jenell Navarro, and Andrea Smith 1 Part I. Boundless Bodies 1. Stayed | Freedom | Hallelujah / Ashon Crawley 27 2. Reading the Dead: A Feminist Black Critique of Global Capital / Denise Ferreira da Silva 38 3. Staying Ready for Black Study / Frank B. Wilderson III and Tiffany Lethabo King 52 Part II. Boundless Ontologies 4. New World Grammars: The "Unthought" Black Discourses of Conquest / Tiffany Lethabo King 77 5. The Vel of Slavery: Tracking the Figure of the Unsovereign / Jared Sexton 94 6. Sovereignty as Deferred Genocide / Andrea Smith 118 7. Murder and Metaphysics: Leslie Marmon Silko's "Tony's Story" and Audre Lorde's "Power" / Chad Benito Infante 133 8. Black Malpractice (or, the Fugitive Sacred) / J. Kameron Carter 158 Part III. Boundless Socialities 9. Possessions of Whiteness: Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness in the Pacific / Maile Arvin 213 10. "What's Past Is Prologue": Black Native Refusal and the Colonial Archive / Sandra Harvey 218 11. Indian Country's Apartheid / Cedric Sunray 236 12. "Ugh! Maskoke People and Our Pervasive Anti-Black Racism . . . Let the Language Teach Us!" / Marcus Briggs-Cloud 13. Mississippian Black Metal Grl on a Friday Night with Artist's Statement / Hotvlkuce Harjo 291 Part IV. Boundless Kinship 14. The Countdown Remix: Why Two Native Feminists Ride with Queen Bey / Jenelle Navarro and Kimberly Robertson 15. Slay Serigraph with Artist's Statement / Kimberly Robertson 320 16. Mass Incarceration since 1492 / Jenell Navarro and Kimberly Robertson 322 17. "Liberation," Cover of Queer Indigenous Girl, Volume 4, and "Roots," Cover of Black Indigenous Boy, Volume 2 / Se'mana Thompson 330 18. Visual Cultures of Indigenous Futurism / Lindsay Nixon 332 19. Diaspora, Transnationalism, and the Decolonial Project / Rinaldo Walcott 343 20. Building Maroon Intellectual Communities / Chris Finley 362 About the Authors 371 Index
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Duke University Press Indigenous Narratives of Territory and Creation
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Duke University Press Speaking for the People
Book SynopsisIn Speaking for the People Mark Rifkin examines nineteenth-century Native writings to reframe contemporary debates around Indigenous recognition, refusal, and resurgence. Rifkin shows how works by Native authors (William Apess, Elias Boudinot, Sarah Winnemucca, and Zitkala-Ša) illustrate the intellectual labor involved in representing modes of Indigenous political identity and placemaking. These writers highlight the complex processes involved in negotiating the character, contours, and scope of Indigenous sovereignties under ongoing colonial occupation. Rifkin argues that attending to these writers'' engagements with non-native publics helps provide further analytical tools for addressing the complexities of Indigenous governance on the ground—both then and now. Thinking about Native peoplehood and politics as a matter of form opens possibilities for addressing the difficult work involved in navigating among varied possibilities for conceptualizing and enacting peoTrade Review“Mark Rifkin examines important nineteenth-century Native literary figures' engagement with settler publics by laying out a nuanced introspection of their ‘portraits of peoplehood’ during tumultuous contexts and the costs of such representativity that foster tension in the present day. He resituates the discussion of recognition to this earlier period in order to detour from a settler stronghold on political definitions still used to impact the daily life of Indigenous peoples. Delving deep into the political spheres of violence and the nuanced political forms of Indigenous life that emerge, Rifkin gives us further grounds to explore the foundations and formations of slippery recognition politics.” -- Mishuana Goeman, Professor of Gender Studies and American Indian Studies, University of California, Los Angeles“Presenting new, insightful, nuanced, and persuasive readings of four key figures in nineteenth-century Native American literature, Speaking for the People is both timely and poised to become a classic study in Native and Indigenous studies, anthropology, and American literary studies. An interdisciplinary tour de force.” -- Birgit Brander Rasmussen, author of * Queequeg’s Coffin: Indigenous Literacies and Early American Literature *"Speaking for the People is as useful for scholars and students of contemporary indigenous studies as it is for those pursuing the study of 19th-century literature, politics, and indigenous peoples. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." -- J. J. Donahue * Choice *"In Speaking for the People Mark Rifkin contributes to the ongoing critical conversation regarding Indigenous recognition. In richly historicized chapters he questions the process of how Indigenous leaders . . . consciously stage the 'legitimacy of their entry' into the discursive frameworks of coloniality." -- Caitlin Simmons * Western American Literature *"Speaking for the People reasserts the usefulness and relevance of literary studies in fashioning Indigenous political theory. Rifkin demonstrates how nineteenth-century Native texts have had to navigate settler worldings to express peoplehood and how their intellectual labor of negotiatedness should inspire present-day scholarship. His demonstration is as compelling as it is unsettling." -- Mathilde Louette * Transatlantica *"Speaking for the People . . . is valuable for literary scholars and Indigenous scholars alike to articulate the complexity of Indigenous activism in a settler state." -- Alison Russell * New England Quarterly *"Speaking for the People has generated a rich set of coordinates and queries for analyzing nineteenth-century Native writing, and Rifkin’s readings model how these questions take us deep into nineteenth-century Native political discussions while resonating in contemporary NAIS scholarship." -- Kelly Wisecup * Native American and Indigenous Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. What's in a Nation? Cherokee Vanguardism in Elias Boudinot's Letters 35 2. Experiments in Signifying Sovereignty: Exemplarity and the Politics of Southern New England in William Apess 77 3. Among Ghost Dances: Sarah Winnemucca and the Production of Paiute Identity 127 4. The Native Informant Speaks: The Politics of Ethnographic Subjectivity in Zitkala-Ša's Autobiographical Stories 176 Coda. On Refusing the Ethnographic Imaginary, or Reading for the Politics of Peoplehood 221 Notes 235 Bibliography 277 Index 301
£75.65
Duke University Press Hawaii Is My Haven
Book SynopsisNitasha Tamar Sharma maps the context and contours of Black life in Hawai?i, showing how despite the presence of anti-Black racism, the state's Black residents consider it to be their haven from racism.Trade Review“Highlighting the place of Hawai‘i as a site for analyzing the most pressing cultural, political, and economic currents facing our world, Nitasha Tamar Sharma provides a unique and nuanced view into the complex flows of Islander life while creating new spaces for Black and multiracial voices that are all too frequently silenced. This much-needed work makes an important contribution to theorizing race and indigeneity together in American studies, ethnic studies, African American studies, and Native and Indigenous studies.” -- Ty P. Kawika Tengan, author of * Native Men Remade: Gender and Nation in Contemporary Hawai‘i *“This is an elegantly written, trenchantly argued, and persuasively rendered ethnography of African Americans in Hawai‘i. It is simultaneously a landmark pointing the way to how the United States itself may evolve in the twenty-first century as it comes to resemble, racially and ethnically, the vibrant fiftieth state.” -- Gerald Horne, author of * The White Pacific: U.S. Imperialism and Black Slavery in the South Seas After the Civil War *"Hawaiʻi Is My Haven is an ambitious and original work of scholarship. By focusing on an oft-overlooked demographic, it creates a fuller, more accurate picture of Hawaii’s history." -- Eric Stinton * Honolulu Civil Beat *"This book will be of interest to scholars of Pacific settlement histories, transnational and ethnocultural identities, colonialism, and indigenous activism. For those teaching Pacific studies courses, this volume adds a new dimension to Hawaiian histories of migration, settler colonization, and multiculturalism, as well as current alignments in social justice movements." -- Michelle Ladwig Williams * Pacific Affairs *"This is an interesting and important work for scholars in the fields [of Native and Indigenous studies, mixed-race studies, African American studies, American studies, and ethnic studies.] But for Hawaiian scholars and/or activists invested in a more pono future for Hawai‘i, this book is required reading." -- Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada * Native American and Indigenous Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction: Hawaiʻi Is My Haven 1 1. Over Two Centuries: The History of Black People in Hawaiʻi 37 2. "Saltwater Negroes": Black Locals, Multiracialism, and Expansive Blackness 71 3. "Less Pressure": Black Transplants, Settler Colonialism, and a Racial Lens 120 4. Racism in Paradise: AntiBlack Racism and Resistance in Hawaiʻi 166 5. Embodying Kuleana: Negotiating Black and Native Positionality in Hawaiʻi 217 Conclusion: Identity↔Politics↔Knowledge 261 Notes 279 Bibliography 305 Index 331
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Duke University Press Unsettled Borders
Book SynopsisIn Unsettled Borders Felicity Amaya Schaeffer examines the ongoing settler colonial war over the US-Mexico border from the perspective of Apache, Tohono O’odham, and Maya who fight to protect their sacred land. Schaeffer traces the scientific and technological development of militarized border surveillance across time and space from Spanish colonial lookout points in Arizona and Mexico to the Indian wars, when the US cavalry hired Native scouts to track Apache fleeing into Mexico, to the occupation of the Tohono O’odham reservation and the recent launch of robotic bee swarms. Labeled “Optics Valley,” Arizona builds on a global history of violent dispossession and containment of Native peoples and migrants by branding itself as a profitable hub for surveillance. Schaeffer reverses the logic of borders by turning to Indigenous sacredsciences: ancestral land-based practices that are critical to reversing the ecological and social violence of surveillance, exTrade Review“[Unsettled Borders] includes an impressively documented bibliography. The text ultimately succeeds in telling a story of violence against Indigenous peoples and their cultures, perpetrated in the name of border security, and documenting the use of surveillance technology, which has permanently altered the landscape. Recommended.” -- G. Christensen * Choice *"Unsettled Borders makes an outstanding contribution to replacing some of the missing pieces while incorporating neocolonialism and interethnic borders into state border studies. Its author, Felicity Amaya Schaeffer, builds a great basis for a problem that is gaining greater visibility, exposing an equal criminalization of migrant people and indigenous communities." -- Tania Porcaro * Journal of Borderlands Studies *"I loved the big picture and provocative ideas that expanded my own understanding of topics I have studied for many years. . . . The book centers Indigenous perspectives to demonstrate not only the contributions Indigenous science has made to (or rather, been appropriated by) the military-industrial/border-security complex, but also the ways that Indigenous scholarship contributes to our understanding of this dynamic from a critical thinking perspective. The primary focus of the book is U.S. borders and Arizona features prominently therein, but the lessons go well beyond this geography as approaches to border security have become globalized." -- Kenneth D. Madsen * Indigenous Religious Traditions *"Unsettled Borders is a rich and skillful analysis of military discourse, settler technoscience, and ethnographic materials primarily devoted to events in the Arizona-Sonora borderlands, but with resonances across other settler colonial spaces (within and beyond the United States)." -- Iván Chaar López * Postcolonial Studies *Table of ContentsPreface. TimeSpaces of Dispossession to the Forging of Indigenous Relations with Land ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction. Tracking Footprints: Settler Surveillance across Unsettled Borders 1 1. “The Eyes of the Army”: Indian Scouts and the Rise of Military Innovation during the Apache Wars 29 2. Occupation on Sacred Land: Colliding Sovereignties on the Tohono O’odham Reservation 55 3. Automated Border Control: Criminalizing the “Hidden Intent” of Migrant/Native Embodiment 81 4. From the Eyes of the Bees: Biorobotic Border Security and the Resurgence of Bee Collectives in the Yucatán 104 Conclusion. Wild versus Sacred: The Ongoing Border War against Indigenous Peoples 139 Notes 153 Bibliography 185 Index 201
£72.25
Duke University Press Scales of Resistance
Book SynopsisIn Scales of Resistance Maylei Blackwell narrates how Indigenous women’s activism in Mexico and its diaspora weaves in and between local, national, continental, and transborder scales. Drawing on more than seventy testimonials and twenty years of fieldwork spent accompanying Indigenous women activists, Blackwell focuses on how these activists navigate the blockages to their participation and transform exclusionary spaces into scales of resistance. Blackwell shows how activists in Mexico and those in the migrant stream that runs from Oaxaca into California redefined women’s roles in community decision-making. They did so by scaling down Indigenous autonomy to their own bodies, homes, and communities; grounding their political claims within Indigenous epistemologies and the gendered nature of social organization; and scaling up to regional, national, and continental contexts. This allowed them to place themselves at the heart of Indigenous resistance and autonomy, decoTrade Review"In Scales of Resistance, Blackwell rethinks scale beyond solely its colonial and masculinist forms by centering Indigenous women’s organizing and geographies. By highlighting the work that Indigenous women (sometimes migrants) do at varying scales, as well as the creation of new scales based on their readings of power in different places and their own cosmovisions, Blackwell’s book is an important corrective to scalar analyses that invisibilize marginalized actors." -- Rebekah Kartal * Antipode *"Overall, Scales of Resistance is an invaluable contribution to social science and humanities literature. Blackwell’s rigorous analyses and insightful observations provide amuch-needed account of the vital roles of Indigenous women’s agency and activism in the Americas and in what will always be their forever home. Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals." -- T. M. Montoya * Choice *"The strength of the theoretical argument lies in the interaction between the various case studies explored in the chapters, as well as in their interrelation among struggles, allowing for an exploration of the different scales of indigenous women’s organization and considering them as interconnected rather than separated by national or political borders. ... While the opening up of the concepts of scale and boundary remains a major theoretical contribution, [Scales of Resistance] also subtly showcases the strength of indigenous women’s movements and their repertoire of rich, diverse, and unique actions, constituting an equally important empirical contribution." -- Andreanne Brunet-Belanger * Journal of Borderlands Studies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Abbreviations xi Prelude. Walking Together: The Politics of Acompañamiento xv Introduction 1 1. The Multiscalar Practice of Autonomy in Mexico 41 2. Abiayala as Scale 96 3. Rebellion at the Roots 143 4. Transborder Geographies of Difference 193 5. Translocal Geographies of Indigeneity 230 Coda. The Subterranean Life Seeds 258 Notes 297 References 313 Index 349
£77.35
Duke University Press Kin
Book SynopsisThe contributors to Kin draw on the work of anthropologist Deborah Bird Rose (1946–2018), a foundational voice in environmental humanities, to examine the relationships of interdependence and obligation between human and nonhuman lives.Trade Review“Deborah Bird Rose created an expansive scholarly field underpinned by interconnections, the affirmation of life, and love and responsibility as analytics. Invited to such a challenging field, the stories in this book carefully labor across a heterogeneity of forms of life and nonlife to reshuffle biological, political, and historical boundaries and creatively open possibility for a plethora of interconnected differences, pragmatic boundaries without a center. Caring for the Earth as Country, this artfully crafted collection meets Rose’s most urgent demand: becoming a witness of death that asserts life through an ethical practice that is always already ecological.” -- Marisol de la Cadena, author of * Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice across Andean Worlds *"Rose’s thought is timely now more than ever. This collection is a testimony to the vitality of their work for the present and challenges ahead that will involve relearning to be one among lifescapes of other beings rather than a social atom." -- Christopher Blakley * Science as Culture *"I was provoked and challenged by the diversity of this collection. . . ." -- David Moore * Indigenous Religious Traditions *Table of ContentsWorlds of Kin: An Introduction / Thom Van Dooren and Matthew Chrulew 1 1. The Sociality of Birds: Reflections on Ontological Edge Effects / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing 15 2. Loving the Difficult: Scotch Broom / Catriona Sandilands 33 3. Awakening to the Call of Others: What I Learned from Existential Ecology / Isabelle Stengers 53 4. Speculative Fabulations for Technoculture’s Generations: Taking Care of Unexpected Country / Donna J. Haraway 70 5. The Disappearing Snails of Hawaiʻi: Storytelling for a Time of Extinctions / Thom Van Dooren 94 6. Roadkill: Multispecies Mobility and Everyday Ecocide / Kate Rigby and Owain Jones 112 7. After Nature: Totemism Revisited / Stephen Muecke 135 8. Telling One’s Own Story in the Hearing of Buffalo: Liturgical Interventions from Beyond the Year Zero / James Hatley 149 9. Ending with the Wind, Crying the Dawn / Bawaka Country, including Sandie Suchet-Pearson, Kate Lloyd, Sarah Wright, Laklak Burarrwanga, Ritjilili Ganambarr, Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs, Banbapuy Ganambarr, and Djawundil Maymuru 174 10. Animality and the Life of the Spirit / Colin Dayan 187 11. Life Is a Woven Basket of Relations / Kate Wright 196 12. Afterword: Memories with Deborah Rose / Linda Payi Ford 218 Contributors 225 Index 229
£72.25
Duke University Press Gridiron Capital
Book SynopsisLisa Uperesa charts the cultural, historical, and social dynamics that have made American football so central to Samoan culture.Trade Review"Uperesa’s book should not only appeal to anthropologists but also to general readers. She engagingly explains what football has come to mean to a whole range of Samoan players — in college programs and the NFL, as well as on youth and high school teams back home — and gives a compelling account of how dual systems of stratification, one based in Indigenous values and the other in capitalist imperatives, combine, for better and worse. . . . Readers interested in sports and culture in a transnational world will no doubt find Gridiron Capital engrossing." -- David Lipset * Los Angeles Review of Books *"Recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals." -- J. A. Badics * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction. Fabled Futures and Gridiron Dreams 1 1. Malaga: Forging New Pathways in Sport and Beyond 23 2. Football, Tautua, and Faʻasāmoa 48 3. Producing the Gridiron Warrior 71 4. Gridiron Capital 103 5. “Faʻmālosi!”: Strength, Injury, and Sacrifice 123 Conclusion. Niu Futures 151 Glossary 155 Notes 159 Bibliography 185 Index 211
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Duke University Press Colonial Racial Capitalism
Book SynopsisThe contributors to Colonial Racial Capitalism demonstrate the co-constitution and entanglement of slavery and colonialism from the conquest of the New World through industrial capitalism to contemporary financial capitalism.Trade Review“Throughout the chapters of [Colonial Racial Capitalism] the authors demonstrate the numerous ways everyday people have refused to become subsumed by these oppressive relationships, resulting in a work that does not merely ‘recite the horrors’ of a colonial racial capitalism, but offers insights into alternative means of living and relating to one another.” -- Kendall Artz * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction / Susan Koshy, Lisa Marie Cacho, Jodi A. Byrd and Brian Jordan Jefferson 1 I. Accumulation: Development by Dispossession 1. The Corporation and the Tribe / Joanne Barker 33 2. “In the Constant Flux of Its Incessant Renewal”: The Social Reproduction of Racial Capitalism and Settler Colonial Entitlement / Alyosha Goldstein 60 3. The Racial Alchemy of Debt: Dispossession and Accumulation in Afterlives of Slavery / Cheryl I. Harris 88 II. Administration: The Open Secret of Colonial Racial Capitalist Violence 4. In Search of the Next El Dorado: Mining for Capital in a Frontier Market with Colonial Legacies / Kimberly Kay Hoang 131 5. “Don’t Arrest Me, Arrest the Police”: Policing as the Street Administration of Colonial Racial Capitalist Orders / Lisa Marie Cacho and Jodi Melamed 159 6. Policing Solidarity: Race, Violence, and the University of Puerto Rico / Marisol LeBrón 206 7. Programming Colonial Racial Capitalism: Encoding Human Value in Smart Cities / Brian Jordan Jefferson 232 III. Aesthetics: Reimagining the Sites of Cultural Memory 8. Nuclear Antipolitics and the Queer Art of Logistical Failure / Iyko Day 257 9. Erasing Empire: Remembering the Mexican-American War in Los Angeles / Laura Pulido 284 IV. Rehearsing for the Future 10. Racial Capitalism Now: A Conversation with Michael Dawson and Ruth Wilson Gilmore / Facilitated by Brian Jordan Jefferson and Jodi Melamed 311 Contributors 333 Index 337
£78.30
Duke University Press Scales of Resistance
Book SynopsisIn Scales of Resistance Maylei Blackwell narrates how Indigenous women’s activism in Mexico and its diaspora weaves in and between local, national, continental, and transborder scales. Drawing on more than seventy testimonials and twenty years of fieldwork spent accompanying Indigenous women activists, Blackwell focuses on how these activists navigate the blockages to their participation and transform exclusionary spaces into scales of resistance. Blackwell shows how activists in Mexico and those in the migrant stream that runs from Oaxaca into California redefined women’s roles in community decision-making. They did so by scaling down Indigenous autonomy to their own bodies, homes, and communities; grounding their political claims within Indigenous epistemologies and the gendered nature of social organization; and scaling up to regional, national, and continental contexts. This allowed them to place themselves at the heart of Indigenous resistance and autonomy, decoTrade Review"In Scales of Resistance, Blackwell rethinks scale beyond solely its colonial and masculinist forms by centering Indigenous women’s organizing and geographies. By highlighting the work that Indigenous women (sometimes migrants) do at varying scales, as well as the creation of new scales based on their readings of power in different places and their own cosmovisions, Blackwell’s book is an important corrective to scalar analyses that invisibilize marginalized actors." -- Rebekah Kartal * Antipode *"Overall, Scales of Resistance is an invaluable contribution to social science and humanities literature. Blackwell’s rigorous analyses and insightful observations provide amuch-needed account of the vital roles of Indigenous women’s agency and activism in the Americas and in what will always be their forever home. Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals." -- T. M. Montoya * Choice *"The strength of the theoretical argument lies in the interaction between the various case studies explored in the chapters, as well as in their interrelation among struggles, allowing for an exploration of the different scales of indigenous women’s organization and considering them as interconnected rather than separated by national or political borders. ... While the opening up of the concepts of scale and boundary remains a major theoretical contribution, [Scales of Resistance] also subtly showcases the strength of indigenous women’s movements and their repertoire of rich, diverse, and unique actions, constituting an equally important empirical contribution." -- Andreanne Brunet-Belanger * Journal of Borderlands Studies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Abbreviations xi Prelude. Walking Together: The Politics of Acompañamiento xv Introduction 1 1. The Multiscalar Practice of Autonomy in Mexico 41 2. Abiayala as Scale 96 3. Rebellion at the Roots 143 4. Transborder Geographies of Difference 193 5. Translocal Geographies of Indigeneity 230 Coda. The Subterranean Life Seeds 258 Notes 297 References 313 Index 349
£22.79
Duke University Press Gridiron Capital
Book SynopsisLisa Uperesa charts the cultural, historical, and social dynamics that have made American football so central to Samoan culture.Trade Review"Uperesa’s book should not only appeal to anthropologists but also to general readers. She engagingly explains what football has come to mean to a whole range of Samoan players — in college programs and the NFL, as well as on youth and high school teams back home — and gives a compelling account of how dual systems of stratification, one based in Indigenous values and the other in capitalist imperatives, combine, for better and worse. . . . Readers interested in sports and culture in a transnational world will no doubt find Gridiron Capital engrossing." -- David Lipset * Los Angeles Review of Books *"Recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals." -- J. A. Badics * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction. Fabled Futures and Gridiron Dreams 1 1. Malaga: Forging New Pathways in Sport and Beyond 23 2. Football, Tautua, and Faʻasāmoa 48 3. Producing the Gridiron Warrior 71 4. Gridiron Capital 103 5. “Faʻmālosi!”: Strength, Injury, and Sacrifice 123 Conclusion. Niu Futures 151 Glossary 155 Notes 159 Bibliography 185 Index 211
£18.89
Duke University Press Reckoning with Restorative Justice
Book SynopsisLeanne Trapedo Sims examines the experiences of incarcerated Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander women at the Women's Community Correctional Center, the only women's prison in the state of Hawaii.Trade Review“Well written and nicely theorized, Reckoning with Restorative Justice is an important project based on rigorous research, which adopts an intersectional lens in interrogating social justice failures in the contemporary carceral setting in Hawai‘i. As an innovative exploration of Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander women’s writing that has been neglected, this is original work that is much needed.” -- J. Kehaulani Kauanui, author of * Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty: Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism *“Reckoning with Restorative Justice is a complex and nuanced investigation of the tensions inherent in writing within a carceral setting and a reminder that even embedded within this complexity of challenges, the act of storytelling offers an intimate pathway to both personal insight and collective community witnessing as well as a significant step on a journey toward healing.” -- Lynden Harris, editor of * Right Here, Right Now: Life Stories from America’s Death Row *Table of ContentsAbbreviations ix A Note on the Text xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: The American Gulag and Indigenous Incarceration in Hawai‘i 1 1. Pedagogy and Process 33 2. “Home”: Trauma and Desire 58 3. The Stage Away from the Page 79 4. Love Letters 112 5. Postrelease and Affective Writers 139 Epilogue: Palliative Praxis or Pathways to Transformation? 153 Appendix 165 Notes 167 Bibliography 197 Index 209
£72.25
Duke University Press Haunting Biology
Book SynopsisIn Haunting Biology Emma Kowal recounts the troubled history of Western biological studies of Indigenous Australians and asks how we now might see contemporary genomics, especially that conducted by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander scientists. Kowal illustrates how the material persistence of samples over decades and centuries folds together the fates of different scientific methodologies. Blood, bones, hair, comparative anatomy, human biology, physiology, and anthropological genetics all haunt each other across time and space, together with the many racial theories they produced and sustained. The stories Kowal tells feature a variety of ghostly presences: a dead anatomist, a fetishized piece of hair hidden away in a war trunk, and an elusive white Indigenous person. By linking this history to contemporary genomics and twenty-first-century Indigeneity, Kowal outlines the fraught complexities, perils, and potentials of studying Indigenous biological difference in the twentyTrade Review“Resistances and refusals by bodies and spirits of Indigenous peoples continue to haunt and disrupt white settler bio-logics. Haunting Biology reveals settler colonial science as the white fellas’ desiring apparatus: generating meticulous inscriptions of blood, bone, hair, genomics, and metabolisms to try to make beguiling differences but repeatedly failing to capture lived Indigeneity. How, Emma Kowal asks, can all the ancestral ghosts troubling the white scientific machine be engaged with respectfully, not exorcised, in future biologies?” -- Warwick Anderson, author of * The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health, and Racial Destiny in Australia *“Examining exemplary cases in the history of biological, physical anthropological, and medical research, Emma Kowal uniquely argues that all biological knowledge contains the possibility of being affected and facilitated by a problematic practice from distant places and times. She shows that the messy history of biological differences is not a history left behind, but one that lingers and haunts our current-day shiny laboratory science. It is this realization that prompts a much-needed evaluation of the history of anthropology.” -- Amade M’charek, author of * The Human Genome Diversity Project: An Ethnography of Scientific Practice *Table of ContentsA Note on Terminology xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1. Living with Ghosts 11 2. Blood, Bones, and the Ghosts of the Ancestors 33 3. A Century in the Life of an Aboriginal Hair Sample 67 4. Race and Nation: Aboriginal Whiteness and Settler Belonging 91 5. Indigenous Physiology: Metabolism, Cold Tolerance, and the Possibility of Human Hibernation 119 6. Spencer’s Double: The Decolonial Afterlife of a Postcolonial Museum Prop 143 Conclusion 167 Appendix 1. Dramatis Personae 173 Appendix 2. Timeline of Relevant Events 175 Notes 181 References 199 Index 235
£73.95
Duke University Press Indigenous Peoples and Borders
Book SynopsisThe contributors to this volume explore the profound and varying impacts of borders on Indigenous Peoples around the world and the ways they challenge and work around them.Trade Review“This insightful and important volume offers readers, teachers, scholars, and students a collection of essays that widen our understanding of the global phenomenon of Indigenous Peoples' politics. Indigenous Peoples and Borders is a singular, well-structured source for teaching and analyzing Indigenous studies through a comparative and global perspective. It will become a go-to book for the field.” -- Kevin Bruyneel, author of * Settler Memory: The Disavowal of Indigeneity and the Politics of Race in the United States *“This volume tackles important and novel topics in view of the current neoliberal challenges faced by Indigenous communities worldwide, from human rights and genocide of Indigenous Peoples to the experiences of Indigenous women and children to sovereignty and nationhood. Indigenous Peoples and Borders will be very valuable for courses in Indigenous studies, political science, history, international studies, globalization, neoliberalism, and human rights.” -- Priscilla Settee, author of * Pimatisiwin: The Good Life, Global Indigenous Knowledge Systems *
£80.75
Duke University Press The Politics of Kinship
Book SynopsisWhat if we understood the idea of family as central to representing alternative forms of governance as expressions of racial deviance? In The Politics of Kinship, Mark Rifkin shows how ideologies of family, including notions of kinship, recast Indigenous and other forms of collective self-organization and self-determination as disruptive racial tendencies in need of state containment and intervention. Centering work in Indigenous studies, Rifkin illustrates how conceptions of family and race work together as part of ongoing efforts to regulate, assault, and efface other political orders. The book examines the history of anthropology and its resonances in contemporary queer scholarship, contemporary Indian policy from the 1970s onward, the legal history of family formation and privacy in the United States, and the association of blackness with criminality across US history. In this way, Rifkin seeks to open new possibilities for envisioning what kinds of relations, networks, and Trade Review“The Politics of Kinship is a new and exciting contribution to the field that raises productive questions about the relationship and distinction between family and kinship. As part of his larger project, developing a queer critique of settler colonialism, Mark Rifkin here homes in on discourses of family and kinship to examine how these conversations have often elided underlying questions of governance and sovereignty.” -- Manu Karuka, author of * Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad *“Distinctly and importantly drawing on Indigenous intellectual frames in order to rethink racialization in the United States, Mark Rifkin makes a powerful contribution to the robust body of scholarship on family, kinship, and race. The Politics of Kinship is a fantastic book.” -- Jennifer C. Nash, author of * How We Write Now: Living with Black Feminist Theory *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Enfamilyment, Political Orders, and the Racializing Work of Scale 1 1. Kinship’s Past, Queer Interventions, and Indigenous Futures 43 2. Indian Domesticity, Setter Regulation, and the Limits of the Race/Politics Distinction 93 3. Marriage, Privacy, Sovereignty 145 4. Blackness, Criminaltiy, Governance 199 Coda: Inside/Outside State Forms 257 Notes 271 Bibliography 343 Index 379
£85.50
Duke University Press Reckoning with Restorative Justice
Book SynopsisLeanne Trapedo Sims examines the experiences of incarcerated Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander women at the Women's Community Correctional Center, the only women's prison in the state of Hawaii.Trade Review“Well written and nicely theorized, Reckoning with Restorative Justice is an important project based on rigorous research, which adopts an intersectional lens in interrogating social justice failures in the contemporary carceral setting in Hawai‘i. As an innovative exploration of Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander women’s writing that has been neglected, this is original work that is much needed.” -- J. Kehaulani Kauanui, author of * Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty: Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism *“Reckoning with Restorative Justice is a complex and nuanced investigation of the tensions inherent in writing within a carceral setting and a reminder that even embedded within this complexity of challenges, the act of storytelling offers an intimate pathway to both personal insight and collective community witnessing as well as a significant step on a journey toward healing.” -- Lynden Harris, editor of * Right Here, Right Now: Life Stories from America’s Death Row *Table of ContentsAbbreviations ix A Note on the Text xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: The American Gulag and Indigenous Incarceration in Hawai‘i 1 1. Pedagogy and Process 33 2. “Home”: Trauma and Desire 58 3. The Stage Away from the Page 79 4. Love Letters 112 5. Postrelease and Affective Writers 139 Epilogue: Palliative Praxis or Pathways to Transformation? 153 Appendix 165 Notes 167 Bibliography 197 Index 209
£18.89
Duke University Press Haunting Biology
Book SynopsisIn Haunting Biology Emma Kowal recounts the troubled history of Western biological studies of Indigenous Australians and asks how we now might see contemporary genomics, especially that conducted by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander scientists. Kowal illustrates how the material persistence of samples over decades and centuries folds together the fates of different scientific methodologies. Blood, bones, hair, comparative anatomy, human biology, physiology, and anthropological genetics all haunt each other across time and space, together with the many racial theories they produced and sustained. The stories Kowal tells feature a variety of ghostly presences: a dead anatomist, a fetishized piece of hair hidden away in a war trunk, and an elusive white Indigenous person. By linking this history to contemporary genomics and twenty-first-century Indigeneity, Kowal outlines the fraught complexities, perils, and potentials of studying Indigenous biological difference in the twentyTrade Review“Resistances and refusals by bodies and spirits of Indigenous peoples continue to haunt and disrupt white settler bio-logics. Haunting Biology reveals settler colonial science as the white fellas’ desiring apparatus: generating meticulous inscriptions of blood, bone, hair, genomics, and metabolisms to try to make beguiling differences but repeatedly failing to capture lived Indigeneity. How, Emma Kowal asks, can all the ancestral ghosts troubling the white scientific machine be engaged with respectfully, not exorcised, in future biologies?” -- Warwick Anderson, author of * The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health, and Racial Destiny in Australia *“Examining exemplary cases in the history of biological, physical anthropological, and medical research, Emma Kowal uniquely argues that all biological knowledge contains the possibility of being affected and facilitated by a problematic practice from distant places and times. She shows that the messy history of biological differences is not a history left behind, but one that lingers and haunts our current-day shiny laboratory science. It is this realization that prompts a much-needed evaluation of the history of anthropology.” -- Amade M’charek, author of * The Human Genome Diversity Project: An Ethnography of Scientific Practice *Table of ContentsA Note on Terminology xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1. Living with Ghosts 11 2. Blood, Bones, and the Ghosts of the Ancestors 33 3. A Century in the Life of an Aboriginal Hair Sample 67 4. Race and Nation: Aboriginal Whiteness and Settler Belonging 91 5. Indigenous Physiology: Metabolism, Cold Tolerance, and the Possibility of Human Hibernation 119 6. Spencer’s Double: The Decolonial Afterlife of a Postcolonial Museum Prop 143 Conclusion 167 Appendix 1. Dramatis Personae 173 Appendix 2. Timeline of Relevant Events 175 Notes 181 References 199 Index 235
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Duke University Press Indigenous Peoples and Borders
Book SynopsisThe legacies of borders are far-reaching for Indigenous Peoples. This collection offers new ways of understanding borders by departing from statist approaches to territoriality. Bringing together the fields of border studies, human rights, international relations, and Indigenous studies, it features a wide range of voices from across academia, public policy, and civil society. The contributors explore the profound and varying impacts of borders on Indigenous Peoples around the world and the ways borders are challenged and worked around. From Bangladesh’s colonially imposed militarized borders to resource extraction in the Russian Arctic and along the Colombia-Ecuador border to the transportation of toxic pesticides from the United States to Mexico, the chapters examine sovereignty, power, and obstructions to Indigenous rights and self-determination as well as globalization and the economic impacts of borders. Indigenous Peoples and Borders proposes future action that is inTrade Review“This insightful and important volume offers readers, teachers, scholars, and students a collection of essays that widen our understanding of the global phenomenon of Indigenous Peoples' politics. Indigenous Peoples and Borders is a singular, well-structured source for teaching and analyzing Indigenous studies through a comparative and global perspective. It will become a go-to book for the field.” -- Kevin Bruyneel, author of * Settler Memory: The Disavowal of Indigeneity and the Politics of Race in the United States *“This volume tackles important and novel topics in view of the current neoliberal challenges faced by Indigenous communities worldwide, from human rights and genocide of Indigenous Peoples to the experiences of Indigenous women and children to sovereignty and nationhood. Indigenous Peoples and Borders will be very valuable for courses in Indigenous studies, political science, history, international studies, globalization, neoliberalism, and human rights.” -- Priscilla Settee, author of * Pimatisiwin: The Good Life, Global Indigenous Knowledge Systems *
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Duke University Press Mediating Modernisms
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New York University Press Pocahontas and the English Boys
Book SynopsisThe captivating story of four young peopleEnglish and Powhatanwho lived their lives between cultures In Pocahontas and the English Boys, the esteemed historian Karen Ordahl Kupperman shifts the lens on the well-known narrative of Virginia's founding to reveal the previously untold and utterly compelling story of the youths who, often unwillingly, entered into cross-cultural relationshipsand became essential for the colony's survival. Their story gives us unprecedented access to both sides of early Virginia. Here for the first time outside scholarly texts is an accurate portrayal of Pocahontas, who, from the age of ten, acted as emissary for her father, who ruled over the local tribes, alongside the never-before-told intertwined stories of Thomas Savage, Henry Spelman, and Robert Poole, young English boys who were forced to live with powerful Indian leaders to act as intermediaries. Pocahontas and the English Boys is a riveting seventeenth-century story of intrigue and danger, knowledgeTrade Review"Based on a lifetime of study, Ms. Kupperman provides a remarkably perceptive and sympathetic portrait of five young people who, with little control over their own fate, found themselves caught up in the dangerously shifting cultural realities of early Jamestown." * Wall Street Journal *""A culturally resonant understanding of the early confluences in America between Indigenous peoples and Europeans...this new take on her life and times answers questions essential to our time: What is the nature of fluidity in civic culture — what happens to us when we encounter new cultures, people, languages — not just once but frequently? And what happens to our human condition when someone else tries to shape who we are?" -- NPR.org"An inventive and lively new account of the Powhatan peoples' encounter with the Virginia colonists. While Pocahontas has been the subject of a fair amount of scholarship, the story of the English youths who learned Algonquian languages has never been so explicitly (and fittingly) paired with hers." -- Andrew Lipman,author of The Saltwater Frontier"From the opening scene of young Pocahontas teaching an English boy how to live in her fathers capital city, this stunningly original book puts us in the shoes and moccasins of bilingual and bicultural adolescents and shows us a whole new world. Even if you think you know everything about colonial Virginia, you need to read this book." -- Kathleen DuVal,Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina"Karen Kuppermans well-researched and accessible book shows us the familiar Chesapeake story from surprisingand youthfulnew vantage points. This ingenious work by a noted scholar highlights dilemmas of cultural exchange across the Atlantic world." -- Peter H. Wood,Professor Emeritus of History, Duke University"Kupperman offers new insights through her focus on young people who moved between Algonquian and English communities and worlds. Hers is a sobering account of the costs of colonialism for Indigenous people and settlers alike, and brings to life a place a time that still has many lessons to teach us." -- Coll Thrush,author of Indigenous London"Like all her work, Karen Kuppermans new book is as compelling as a great novel. It offers a richly detailed history of three English boys adopted into indigenous communities in early Virginia: a fascinating story of bilingual knowledge, divided loyalties, and the meaning of adolescence across cultures that reframes prior studies of Jamestown, Pocahontas, and early Virginia in significant ways." -- Anna Brickhouse,University of Virginia"Only Karen Ordahl Kupperman could have written this book. She draws on a lifetime of research to craft a human-scale story of young people caught up in events beyond their control. Pocahontas and the English Boys provides general readers with a moving introduction to the tragic history of the Jamestown colony." -- Daniel K. Richter,University of Pennsylvania"While the story of Jamestown itself has been told, the author manages to find a new and fascinating lens. After reading the piece, I am convinced that Thomas Savage, Henry Spelman, and Pocahontas were important cultural brokers whose lives shaped and were profoundly shaped by the English settlement of Virginia." -- Jared Hardesty,author of Unfreedom"A compelling narrative of cultural entanglement that challenges traditional perceptions of early Virginia. A refreshing and readable new take on an old story that should be considered an essential read for anyone striving to understand the human stories of friendship and betrayal that lie at the heart of early modern colonial encounters." -- Audrey Horning,William and Mary"This enlightening study highlights a form of slavery that has been often overlooked in histories of colonial Virginia." * Library Journal *"Kupperman's nuanced portrait of the English boys makes this book an excellent addition to literature on seventeenth-century Virginia. The book's unique perspective on the process of cultural negotiation, combined with its clear writing style, make it ideally suited for undergraduates." * Anglican And Episcopai History *"In a deeply nuanced study, Kupperman deftly crafts a narrative based on her decades of study into the early Virginia colony and the Atlantic world, of the important role of captive children and the exchange of peoples in the settlement process… [She] has produced an important synthesis of this era that allows a glimpse into a terrifying aspect of the colonial era and brings to life their circumstances and hardships." -- Kristalyn Shefveland, University of Southern Indiana * Journal of American Ethnic History *
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New York University Press Sonic Sovereignty
Book SynopsisHonorable Mention, 2024 Alan Merriam Prize, given by the Society for EthnomusicologyWhat does sovereignty sound like?Sonic Sovereignty considers how contemporary Indigenous musicians champion self-determination through musical expression in Canada and the United States. The framework of sonic sovereignty connects self-definition, collective determination, and Indigenous land rematriation to the immediate and long-lasting effects of expressive culture. Liz Przybylski covers online and offline media spaces, following musicians and producers as they, and their music, circulate across broadcast and online networks. Przybylski documents and reflects on shifts in both the music industry and political landscape over the course of a decade: as the ways in which people listen to, consume, and interact with popular music have radically changed, extensive public conversations have flourished around contemporary Indigenous culture, settler responsibility, Indigenous leadership, and decolonial fTrade ReviewExtends our understanding of music across landscapes where belonging and self-determination are enacted daily. Through hybrid ethnographic and participatory research, Liz Przybylski examines the infrastructure of settler media terrains and, more importantly, Indigenous artists’ ruptures of it. Her examination of the online-offline divide, practices of distribution, and regulatory environments of broadcast systems are coupled with the power of Indigenous artists who encourage us to go beyond hearing. Through deft close readings of artists’ practices, she introduces us to the possibilities of relational listening. -- Mishuana Goeman, author of Mark My Words: Native Women Mapping Our NationsExcavates Indigenous rap’s role in moving us in decolonial directions. Liz Przybylski teases out the confluence of mainstream forces that (re)produce silences while spotlighting artists’ refusals, prompting new expressions of audibility. Sonic Sovereignty gifts us with insight into the intimacies of listening and the political possibility of learning to listen differently. -- Imani Kai Johnson, author of Dark Matter in Breaking Cyphers: The Life of Africanist Aesthetics in Global Hip Hop
£62.90
New York University Press Sonic Sovereignty
Book SynopsisHonorable Mention, 2024 Alan Merriam Prize, given by the Society for EthnomusicologyWhat does sovereignty sound like?Sonic Sovereignty considers how contemporary Indigenous musicians champion self-determination through musical expression in Canada and the United States. The framework of sonic sovereignty connects self-definition, collective determination, and Indigenous land rematriation to the immediate and long-lasting effects of expressive culture. Liz Przybylski covers online and offline media spaces, following musicians and producers as they, and their music, circulate across broadcast and online networks. Przybylski documents and reflects on shifts in both the music industry and political landscape over the course of a decade: as the ways in which people listen to, consume, and interact with popular music have radically changed, extensive public conversations have flourished around contemporary Indigenous culture, settler responsibility, Indigenous leadership, and decolonial fTrade ReviewExtends our understanding of music across landscapes where belonging and self-determination are enacted daily. Through hybrid ethnographic and participatory research, Liz Przybylski examines the infrastructure of settler media terrains and, more importantly, Indigenous artists’ ruptures of it. Her examination of the online-offline divide, practices of distribution, and regulatory environments of broadcast systems are coupled with the power of Indigenous artists who encourage us to go beyond hearing. Through deft close readings of artists’ practices, she introduces us to the possibilities of relational listening. -- Mishuana Goeman, author of Mark My Words: Native Women Mapping Our NationsExcavates Indigenous rap’s role in moving us in decolonial directions. Liz Przybylski teases out the confluence of mainstream forces that (re)produce silences while spotlighting artists’ refusals, prompting new expressions of audibility. Sonic Sovereignty gifts us with insight into the intimacies of listening and the political possibility of learning to listen differently. -- Imani Kai Johnson, author of Dark Matter in Breaking Cyphers: The Life of Africanist Aesthetics in Global Hip Hop
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