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John Wiley & Sons Inc Roots of Justice
Book SynopsisWith a foreword by Elizabeth Martinez, Roots of Justice recaptures some of the nearly forgotten histories of communities of color. These are the stories of people who fought back against exploitation and injustice--and won. From the Zoot Suiters who refused to put up with abuse at the hands of the Navy, to the women who organized the welfare rights movement of the 1970s, Roots of Justice shows how, through organizing, ordinary people have made extraordinary contributions to change society.Table of Contents"I Never Run Off the Track" Organizing the Underground Railroad. "Ang Laka Ay Nasa Pagkakaisa" Strength is in the Union": Filipino Farmworkers Organize in the1930s. The "Zoot Suit Riots" Pachucos vs. the Navy. "It's Our Union Too" Chicanas Rescue the "Salt of the Earth" Strike. Affirmative Action from the Grassroots Black Americans Demand Jobs in San Francisco. "Stand on a Street and Bounce a Ball" Organizing the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Unafraid and Dignified Welfare Recipients Organize for their Rights. "No Evictions: We Won't Move!" The Struggle to Save the I-Hotel. "You Are Now on Indian Land" Native Americans Occupy Alcatraz. Participation with Power Parents Fight for Community Control of New York City Schools. Back to the Blanket The Trail of Broken Treaties Marches on Washington. "Justice, Not Sympathy" Japanese Americans Fight for Dignity and Reparations.
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MP-FFI Facts On File Chinese Americans
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Japanese Americans
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Chelsea House Publishers The Czech Republic The Velvet Revolution
Book SynopsisExamines political demarcations that have occurred around the world. While borders may reflect and affirm the cultural, ethnic, or linguistic perimeters that define a people or a country, this series explores how the migration of goods, resources, and people works to undermine the separation imposed by such borders.
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The Peace Corps Humanitarian Organizations
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Chelsea House Publishers Save the Children Humanitarian Organizations
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Baker Publishing Group Why Your Kids Misbehaveand What to Do about It
Book SynopsisPopular parenting expert and New York Times bestselling author identifies the three core reasons kids misbehave (attention, power, revenge) and provides practical, experience-based solutions for what to do in each situation.
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Baker Publishing Group Five Steps to Romantic Love A Workbook for
Book SynopsisThis practical workbook, newly revised and updated, helps couples know and meet each other's needs and overcome the habits that destroy love. A popular supplement to Dr. Harley's bestsellers His Needs, Her Needs and Love Busters.
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Baker Publishing Group Discover Your Childrens Gifts
Book SynopsisA handbook that guides parents in identifying and developing their children's personality gifts. Workbook format.
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MB - Cornell University Press Telling Stories
Book SynopsisExplores why and how personal narratives should be used as evidence, and the methods and pitfalls of their use.Trade ReviewThis decade has witnessed the publication of several anthologies that focus on how to design and conduct oral history projects; introduce and illustrate new applications of oral history to geographical, historical, and social research; and discuss the application of new technologies to oral history methodology.... In this new, important corollary to these works, the authors emphasize the research opportunities available through analysis of personal narratives: 'Read carefully, these sources provide unique insights into the connections between individual life trajectories and collective forces and institutions beyond the individual.' Telling Stories belongs in every oral history collection. Summing Up: Essential. * Choice *
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Cornell University Press No Family Is an Island
Book SynopsisGovernment bureaucracies across the globe have become increasingly attuned in recent years to cultural diversity within their populations. Using culture as a category to process people and dispense services, however, can create its own problems and unintended consequences. In No Family Is an Island, a comparative ethnography of Samoan migrants living in the United States and New Zealand, Ilana Gershon investigates how and when the categories cultural and acultural become relevant for Samoans as they encounter cultural differences in churches, ritual exchanges, welfare offices, and community-based organizations. In both New Zealand and the United States, Samoan migrants are minor minorities in an ethnic constellation dominated by other minority groups. As a result, they often find themselves in contexts where the challenge is not to establish the terms of the debate but to rewrite them. To navigate complicated and often unyielding bureaucracies, they must become skilled in whaTrade ReviewGershon provides a fine-grained analysis of distinctions within Samoan migrant societies that emphasise second-generation differences and the relationship between more established migrants and those they refer to pejoratively as 'fobs....' Avaluable [contribution]... to the gradually expanding literature on the Polynesian diaspora. -- John Connel * Journal of Pacific History *Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I 1. Exchanging While Not-Knowing 2. The Moral Economies of ConversionPart II Introduction: Some Political and Historical Context 3. When Culture Is Not a System 4. Legislating Families as Cultural 5. Constructing Choice, Compelling CultureConclusionReferences Index
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Cornell University Press The Altruistic Imagination A History of Social
Book SynopsisSocial work and social policy in the United States have always had a complex and troubled relationship. In this book, John H. Ehrenreich offers a critical interpretation of their intertwined histories.Trade ReviewEhrenreich's respect for the profession of social work is demonstrated by his careful analysis of the various schools of thought—the painstaking unraveling of the two tangled threads of social control and social reform. Ehrenreich patiently considers the complicated intellectual framework of social work, respecting the complexity of the issues involved while at the same time proposing a provocative and unified thesis. * American Journal of Sociology *
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Cornell University Press Between Two Nations
Book SynopsisImmigrants come to the United States from all over Latin America in search of better lives. They obtain residency status, find jobs, pay taxes, and they have children who are American citizens by birth; yet decades may go by before they seek...Trade ReviewA valuable contribution to the growing literature on transnational immigrant communities.... Persuasive and engaging. * International Migration Review *This well-researched book provides an excellent and sophisticated analysis of a neglected issue: the political marginality of Latin American immigrants to the US, many of whom acquire residency but not citizenship as soon as they are able. * Choice *The questions asked in this book are fundamental to the future of the policy.... Jones-Correa offers a solid contribution to the emerging study of immigrant political adaption. * Political Science Quarterly *
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Cornell University Press Transcending Capitalism
Book SynopsisIn Transcending Capitalism, Howard Brick explains why many influential midcentury American social theorists came to believe it was no longer meaningful to describe modern Western society as capitalist, but instead preferred alternative terms such as postcapitalist, postindustrial, or technological. Considering the discussion today of capitalism and its global triumph, it is important to understand why a prior generation of social theorists imagined the future of advanced societies not in a fixed capitalist form but in some course of development leading beyond capitalism.Brick locates this postcapitalist vision within a long history of social theory and ideology. He challenges the common view that American thought and culture utterly succumbed in the 1940s to a conservative cold war consensus that put aside the reform ideology and social theory of the early twentieth century. Rather, expectations of the shift to a new social economy persisted and cannot be disregarded aTrade ReviewBrick asks thinkers from Marx to Radcliffe-Brown to Reisman to Talcott Parsons a single question: What can you tell us about what a postcapitalist society might be like as such a society appears to be emerging? An impressive scholarly effort. Highly recommended. * Choice *Howard Brick's Transcending Capitalism is a bold and penetrating analysis of modern social thought in the twentieth-century United States. * Journal of American History *Where most historians of the social sciences study the social sciences one at a time, Brick... links intellectual movements within sociology to those in cultural anthropology, political science, social psychology, and particularly economics.... Transcending Capitalism is a rich and imaginative historical argument, one from which sociologists will learn much about a major intellectual current in the development of their field. * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsIntroduction. To Name a New Society in the Making1. Capitalism and Its Future on the Eve of World War I2. The American Theory of Organized Capitalism3. The Interwar Critique of Competitive Individualism4. Talcott Parsons and the Evanescence of Capitalism5. The Displacement of Economy in an Age of Plenty6. The Heyday of Dynamic Sociology7. The Great ReversalConclusion. On Transitional Developments beyond CapitalismNotes Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Enfants Terribles
Book SynopsisWeiner highlights the new importance of youth as a social category of identity in the context of the postwar explosion of the mass media and explores the ways in which girls both defined and disrupted this category.Trade ReviewIn the exhilarating Enfants Terribles, Susan Weiner... utilizes French theory-especially psychoanalytic and feminist-to analyze the historical phenomenon of the emergence of a new teenage girl in France after the Second World War. -- Susan B. Whitney Journal of Social History A thorough and engaging study. Through examining film, advertising, magazines, music and women's writing, Weiner attempts to elicit the process by which the French media created and imposed an image of female youth in the two decades preceding the 'revolution' of 1968, and to suggest that the cumulative effect of this process means that '68 cannot be taken as the first moment in which youth emerged as a public force in postwar France... The strength of Enfants Terribles lies in its impressively comprehensive cultural research, and the perspective this provides on contemporary feminism. -- Lisa Hilton Times Literary Supplement In this provocative book, Weiner weaves together media, politics, and culture in postwar France through the analysis of the emergence of youth-especially young women-as social actors and objects. Choice This is a fascinating and indispensable work of gender and cultural analysis... As an historian, I particularly appreciate her attentiveness to the historical specificity, as well as continuities, of her subject. -- Whitney Walton H-France, H-Net Book Reviews A compelling academic assessment of female social development in this dynamic era. -- Alicia Austin France Today Susan Weiner's exciting work on France in the period following the Second World War explores the emergence, between 1945 and 1968, of a new definition of what it meant to be young and female in France. -- Rebecca Pulju SubStance In a wide-ranging study Weiner discusses the disruptive feminine 'other' that 'emerges alongside complicity with patriarchy' in magazines, popular fiction, politics, film, technological advances and in contemporary social surveys. -- Stephanie Spencer Paedagogica Historica 2004Table of ContentsContents: 1 From ELLE to MADEMOISELLE 2 Fictions of Female Adolescence 3 The Mal du Siecle: Politics and Sexuality 4 Technological Society and Its Discontents 5 Quantifying Youth Conclusion: From Object to Subject?
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University of Toronto Press Urban Housing Markets
Book SynopsisThe Conference on Urban Housing Markets sponsored by the Centre for Urban and Community Studies in October 1977 was the first major conference on housing to be held in Canada since the First Canadian Housing Conference sponsored by the Canadian Welfare Council in 1968.This volume is at once a record of the Conference and a review of important recent research on urban housing markets and related public policy issues. The book captures the flavor of a lively debate between academics and policy analysts, and the commentaries and discussion sections provide, in non-technical language, a statement of some major questions confronting government policy on housing.In addition to its use as a record of an important Canadian conference, the book is a valuable collection of recent housing research. The ten papers cover a wide variety of topics ranging from conceptual and methodological issues on the one hand to critiques of Canadian housing policies on the other. They indicate th
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University of Toronto Press Residential Water Demand
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University of Nebraska Press Indians in Prison
Book SynopsisPresents comparative data on Indians incarcerated in other states and offer recommendations for dealing with recurrent problems. This title focus on how the social environments of Indian youth contribute to their delinquency and substance abuse and how Indians in prison perceive rehabilitation strategies, parole, and the law.Trade Review"The subject of Indians in prison is of great importance not only because of the increasing Native American population in prisons (and the consequences for Indian life) but because that population is so disproportionately high. This first book-length study of the subject surveys the topic comparatively, incorporating detail based on firsthand ethnographic study and at the same time the hard data necessary to make it a definitive survey. Thus it is a major contribution to the field of American Indian studies."—Raymond J. DeMallie, Indiana University
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University of Nebraska Press Reassessing Revitalization Movements
Book SynopsisDiscusses and compares the origins, structure, and development of religious and political revitalization movements in North America and the Pacific Islands. The essays cover the 20th century Cargo Cults of the South Pacific, the 1870 and 1890 Ghost Dance movements in western North America, and the Tuka Movement on Fiji in 1885.
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University of Nebraska Press Interpreting Culture
Book SynopsisHow can we interpret and compare different cultures? Gathering insights from an array of anthropologists, archaeologists, and philosophers and applying them to case studies in the United States, this title develops a practical model of culture and method of interpretation that are built around the concept of "constructing constellations".Trade ReviewInterpreting Cultures provides readers with . . . [an] often provocative reading of Adorno and Benjamin, and it bridges philosophical, sociological, and ethnographic literatures in a novel way. The text carefully moderates contemporary debates by articulating a model of social theory that insists on a context-sensitive vision of truth. . . . Lewandowski . . . insists that social analysis must remain situated, in dialogue with the material reality it seeks to interpret, and capable of producing change. These core tenets of the book prove potent, and thus students and scholars working in these fields would prove unwise to ignore ‘the logic of constructing constellations’.”—Cultural Critique"Lewandowski's Interpreting Culture is a highly original and signal contribution to debates about interpretation and culture in the philosophy of the social sciences. With its rich discussions of urban sociology, race, and other examples from the social sciences, this book should inform and challenge philosophers and social scientists alike."—James Bohman, author of New Philosophy of Social ScienceTable of ContentsContents - List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. The Contemporary Logics of Social Theory; 1. Textuality and Deconstruction; 2. Rationality and Reconstruction; 3. Constructing Constellations; Chapter 2. Method and Truth amid the Ruins of the Social; 1. Image-Construction and the Problem of Truth; 2. Adorno's Critique and Appropriation of Benjamin; 3. Interpretive Philosophy as Constructing Constellations; Chapter 3. Affect and Evidence in the Logic of Constructing Constellations; 1. Adorno's Kierkegaard Study; 2. Truth as Truth Bearers; 3. Sociological Interpretation and Disenchantment; Chapter 4. Method and Truth in French Social Theory; 1. Archaeology and Genealogy; 2. Reflexive Sociology; Chapter 5. Constructing Urban Constellations; 1. Ghetto Life in America; 2. Social Struggle in Chicago; Afterword - Constructing Constellations, or Thematizing Embeddedness; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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University of Nebraska Press Among the Indians
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University of Nebraska Press Hidatsa Social and Ceremonial Organization
Book SynopsisDrawing from the last generation of Hidatsas who lived in the historic village of Like-a-Fishhook, this book presents a study of an important horticultural Plains Indian tribe. It combines archeological and ethnographic approaches to reconstruct a Hidatsa culture history that is shaped by a concern for cultural detail.
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University of Nebraska Press The Lumbee Problem The Making of an American
Book SynopsisTraces the political and legal history of the Indians of Robeson County, arguing that Lumbee political activities ave been powerfully affected by the interplay between their own and others' conceptions of who they are. This book offers insights into the workings of racial ideology and practice in both the past and the present South.Trade Review"The work is authoritative, theoretically provocative, and accessibly written, and should stand as a definitive source on the Lumbee for some time, as well as a useful contribution to the understanding of the South."—Choice"A welcome and valiant effort to elaborate on a quasi-comprehensive basis the history and contemporary status of this indigenous group. . . . It ranks high on the small list of works dealing with an Eastern tribe minus a treaty relationship with the federal government."—Ethnohistory
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University of Nebraska Press A Study of Omaha Indian Music
Book SynopsisPresents a collection of non-Occidental music, all from a single tribe. This book divides the songs into three categories: religious ones, sung by a certain class; social ones, involving dances and games; and ones to be sung singly, including dream songs, love songs, captive songs, prayer songs, death songs, sweat lodge songs, and songs of thanks.
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University of Nebraska Press Choctaws at the Crossroads
Book SynopsisForcibly relocated in the 1830s from the lower Mississippi Valley to the southeastern corner of Indian Territory, the Choctaws today are a dynamic and complex rural ethnic community in Oklahoma. This book examines the political economy of the Choctaws at the end of the twentieth century.Trade Review"[A] superlative work ... Focusing on shifts in the political, economic, and cultural lives of the Choctaw, the author demonstrates the degeneration of the group's political status from nation to tribe to ethnic enclave, as well as its economic marginalisation through forced entry into the world capitalist system... Faiman-Silva eschews a simplistic model of victimisation without denying the glaring inequalities and injustices of past and present interactions with the surrounding world, and she presents vividly the internal heterogeneity of Choctaw solution seeking." - Choice
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University of Nebraska Press Ways of Knowing
Book SynopsisDrawing on fieldwork at Chateh, this title delineates the interconnections between the strands of meaning and experience with which the Dene Tha constitute and creatively engage their world. It offers insights into the Dene Tha's ways of knowing that were gained through directly experiencing their lifeway rather than through formal instruction.
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University of Nebraska Press Powhatans World and Colonial Virginia
Book SynopsisFrederic W. Gleach offers the most balanced and complete accounting of the early years of the Jamestown colony to date. When English colonists established their first permanent settlement at Jamestown in 1607, they confronted a powerful and growing Native chiefdom consisting of over thirty tribes under one paramount chief, Powhatan. For the next half-century, a portion of the Middle Atlantic coastal plain became a charged and often violent meeting ground between two very different worlds.Trade Review“Powhatan’s World and Colonial Virginia is likely to be the focus of spirited discussion for years to come. New interpretations of long-discussed events appear in literally every chapter.”—Journal of Southern History“Anyone who thinks that ethnohistory is dull and descriptive, or that the subdisciplines of anthropology cannot be brought to bear on particular historical cases, must read Frederic Gleach’s reassessment of the contact between the confederacy of the Powhatan and the settlers at Jamestown, Virginia. Gleach attributes the ensuing conflict to incommensurable worldviews rather than to competition for scarce resources. Colonists and Indians largely misunderstood one another without realizing that they did so, all the while undertaking ‘mutual attempts to civilize each other.’ . . . A fascinating book.”—American Anthropologist
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University of Nebraska Press Practicing Ethnohistory
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Galloway’s painstaking multidisciplinary research . . . provides case studies that exemplify how to extract a good deal of information out of what often appears to be simple lists of place names or of names and associated roles. . . . What archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, and museum directors do has consequences for indigenous groups and for the society at large. . . . These last two chapters should be required reading for all involved in narrating the history of colonial encounters.”—Journal of Anthropological Research“This book is an excellent text for use in graduate classes on methodology in a number of disciplines, including ethnohistory, ethnoarchaeology, and Native American studies. . . . The book is ‘a kind of ethno-ethnohistory’ that reinforces the importance of an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the Other. Scholars interested in eighteenth-century Choctaw culture will want this book as part of their libraries.”—Journal of Southern History
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MQ - University of Nebraska Press Becoming TwoSpirit
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University of Nebraska Press Wovoka and the Ghost Dance
Book SynopsisThe religious fervor known as the Ghost Dance movement was precipitated by the prophecies and teachings of a northern Paiute Indian named Wovoka. Understanding the prophet behind the messianic movement, this work addresses the basic questions about his message and life.
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University of Nebraska Press Strangers to Relatives
Book SynopsisPresents an intimate look at the typical but often misunderstood practice of adoption and naming of anthropologists by Native families and communities. Leading anthropologists in the United States and Canada discuss this issue by focusing on the cases of such prominent earlier scholars as Lewis Henry Morgan and Franz Boas.Trade Review“Each of these honest and significant papers adds much to accounts of fieldwork experiences, confronting the historical and contemporary contours of the state of the discipline via adoption processes. . . . This important book furthers understanding of Indian-white relations in a fashion that humanizes both Indians and anthropologists.”—ChoiceTable of ContentsContents: Editor's Introduction 1. Lewis H. Morgan and the Senecas Elisabeth Tooker 2. Ethnographic Deep Play: Boas, McIlwraith, and Fictive Adoption on the Northwest Coast Michael E. Harkin 3. He-Lost-a-Bet (Howanneyao) of the Seneca Hawk Clan William N. Fenton 4. Effects of Adoption on the Round Lake Study Mary Black-Rogers 5. All My Relations: The Significance of Adoption in Anthropological Research William K. Powers and Marla N. Powers 6. Naming as Humanizing Jay Miller 7. Adopting Outsiders on the Lower Klamath River Thomas Buckley 8. Tell Your Sister to Come Eat Anne S. Straus 9. Friendship, Family, and Fieldwork: One Anthropologist's Adoption by Two Tlingit Families Sergei Kan 10. What's in a Name? Becoming a Real Person in a Yup'ik Community Ann Fienup-Riordan Commentary Raymond D. Fogelson List of Contributors Index
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University of Nebraska Press Team Spirits
Book SynopsisActivists and academics explore the origins of Native American mascots, the messages they convey, and the reasons for their persistence into the twenty-first century. These essays examine hotly contested uses of mascots, including the Washington Redskins, the Cleveland Indians, and the University of Illinois's Chief Illiniwek.Trade Review“Each of the essays provides a different perspective, but all agree that the use of Indians as mascots is demeaning, patronizing, and a paradigm of Indian-white power relationships. . . . Separate articles by King and Springwood treat perceptively those Indians who support mascots, and are alone worth the price of the book. . . . One need look no farther for information on why and how Indian mascots exist and ought to disappear into oblivion.”—Choice“Every time I watch the Washington Redskins or the Cleveland Indians (with their grotesque Chief Wahoo) I wonder what it must feel like to be a Native American sports fan and see oneself depicted this way. It just plain gives me the willies. Team Spirits shows me why.”—Rick Telander, sports columnist, Chicago Sun-Times"This is an excellent collection of different viewpoints that challenge readers to reconsider how the selective perceptions of majority groups can persist in keeping down ethnic minorities."—Sunamita Lim, The Santa Fe New Mexican"A valuable and important volume. . . . Each offering is methodical, careful in its argument, fulsome in its data-work, and above all, careful to avoid succumbing to the almost inevitable polemics such issues appear to raise."—Aethlon“The greatest contribution Team Spirits offers to the literature on mascots is the excellent histories . . . on the origin of particular mascots and efforts taken to change or eliminate them. For in these histories—and in the defense mascot supporters proffer when challenged—lies the potential for understanding why people concoct mascots in the first place and why they grow so fond of keeping them in the face of opposition. . . . Team Spirits should appeal not only to scholars but to activists in mascot disputes around the country.”—David P. Rider, American Studies“An invaluable collection of essays that thoroughly examine the American legacy of Native American mascots. Team Spirits fills an important social, political, and intellectual void in American Indian Studies literature, and serves as the first comprehensive examination of the growing mascots controversy.”—Joseph A. Martin, Anthropology and Education Quarterly“C. Richard King and Charles Fruehling Springwood have collected fourteen critical essays, with a foreword by Vine Deloria Jr., which examine this matter from a variety of perspectives and provide some well needed historical and sociological context for the debate.”—Indigenous Nations Studies JournalTable of ContentsContents: Acknowledgments Foreword - Vine Deloria Jr. Introduction: Imagined Indians, Social Identities, and Activism - C. Richard King and Charles Fruehling Springwood Part 1. Inventions 1. Chief Bill Orange and the Saltine Warrior: A Cultural History of Indian Symbols and Imagery at Syracuse University - Donald M. Fisher 2. Becoming the Indians: Fashioning Arkansas State University's Indians - Mary Landreth 3. Wennebojo Meets the Mascot: A Trickster's View of the Central Michigan University Mascot/Logo - Richard Clark Eckert 4. Sockalexis and the Making of the Myth at the Core of Cleveland's "Indian" Image - Ellen J. Staurowsky Part 2. Whiteness 5. The Fighting Braves of Michigamua: Adopting the Visage of American Indian Warriors in the Halls of Academia - Patrick Russell LeBeau 6. The Best Offense . . Dissociation, Desire, and the Defense of the Florida State University Seminoles - C. Richard King and Charles Fruehling Springwood 7. At Home in Illinois: Presence of Chief Illiniwek, Absence of Native Americans - David Prochaska Part 3. Activism 8. Fighting Name-Calling: Challenging "Redskins" in Court - Suzan Shown Harjo 9. Last of the Mohicans, Braves, and Warriors: The End of American Indian Mascots in Los Angeles Public Schools - Ann Marie (Amber) Machamer 10. Escaping the Tyranny of the Majority: A Case Study of Mascot Change - Laurel R. Davis and Malvina T. Rau Part 4. Interventions 11. In Whose Honor?, Mascots, and the Media - Jay Rosenstein 12. School Teachers and Mascots: Challenging Contradictions - Cornel D. Pewewardy Part 5. Complications 13. Uneasy Indians: Creating and Contesting Native American Mascots at Marquette University - C. Richard King 14. Playing Indian and Fighting (for) Mascots: Reading the Complications of Native American and Euro-American Alliances - Charles Fruehling Springwood Epilogue: Closing Arguments, Opening Dialogues - Charles Fruehling Springwood and C. Richard King Contributors; Index
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University of Nebraska Press New Perspectives on Native North America
Book SynopsisWritten by leading scholars working in Native North America, this work explores contemporary perspectives on Native culture, history, and representation. Considering the origins and legacies of various strands of interpretation, it examines the relationship among culture, power, and creativity, and also focuses on the experience of history.Trade Review"New Perspectives on Native North America is a must read for graduate students in anthropology, cultural studies, ethnic studies, and history preparing for comprehensive exams."-Great Plains Quarterly Great Plains Quarterly "The scientific community will welcome this publication for its inspiring inquiries."-Dagmar Siebelt, Anthropos -- Dagmar Siebelt AnthroposTable of ContentsPart One. Perspectives: On the Genealogy and Legacy of an Anthropological Tradition 1. Keeping the Faith: A Legacy of Native American Ethnography, Ethnohistory, and Psychology - Regna Darnell; 2. Fields of Dreams: Revisiting A. I. Hallowell and the Berens River Ojibwe - Jennifer S. H. Brown; 3. Framing the Anomalous: Stoneclad, Sequoyah, and Cherokee Ethnoliteracy - Margaret Bender Part Two. Cultures: On Persons and Power, Rituals and Creativity 4. Power as the Transmission of Culture - Greg Urban; 5. Ironies of Articulating Continuity at Lac du Flambeau - Larry Nesper; 6. The Poetics of Tropes and Dreams in Arapaho Ghost Dance Songs - Jeffrey D. Anderson; 7. Night Thoughts and Night Sweats, Ethnohistory and Ethnohumor: The Quaker Shaker Meets the Lakota Sweat Lodge - Raymond A. Bucko, S.J.; 8. Self-consciousness, Ceremonialism, and the Problem of the Present in the Anthropology of Native North America - Robert E. Moore Part Three. Histories: On Varieties of Temporal Experience and Historical Representation 9. Native Authorship in Northwestern California - Thomas Buckley; 10. The Sioux at the Time of European Contact: An Ethnohistorical Problem - Raymond DeMallie; 11. Proto-Ethnologists in North America - Mary Druke Becker; 12. Folklore, Personal Narratives, and Ethno-Ethnohistory - Joseph C. Jastrzembski; 13. Events and Nonevents on the Tlingit/Russian/American Colonial Frontier, 1802-1879 - Sergei A. Kan; 14. Time and the Individual in Native North America - David W. Dinwoodie Part Four. Representations: On Selves and Others, Hybridities and Appropriations 15. Culture and Culture Theory in Native North America - Robert Brightman; 16. Cannibals in the Mountains: Washoe Teratology and the Donner Party - Barrik Van Winkle; 17. "Vanishing" Indians in Nineteenth-Century New England: Local Historians' Erasure of Still-Present Indian Peoples - Jean M. O'Brien; 18. Pocahontas: An Exercise in Mythmaking and Marketing - Frederic W. Gleach; 19. "I'm an Old Cowhand on the Banks of the Seine": Representations of Indians and Le Far West in Parisian Commercial Culture - Michael E. Harkin; 20. "To Light the Fire of Our Desire": Primitivism in the Camp Fire Girls - Pauline Turner Strong
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University of Nebraska Press Myths and Traditions of the Crow Indians
Book SynopsisBeginning in 1907, the anthropologist Robert H. Lowie visited the Crow Indians at their reservation in Montana. He listened to tales that for many generations had been told around campfires in winter. These tales were originally published in 1918. Myths and Traditions of the Crow Indians is now reprinted with a new introduction by Peter Nabokov.
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University of Nebraska Press Irregular Connections A History of Anthropology
Book SynopsisTraces the anthropological study of sex from the eighteenth century onwards, focusing primarily on social and cultural anthropology and the work done by researchers in North America and Great Britain. This title argues that the sexuality of those whom anthropologists studied has been conscripted into Western discourses about sex.Trade Review"Anthropologists A. Lyons. . . . and H. Lyons. . . . fill a crucial gap in the literature of intellectual history as well as of anthropology."—Choice“A valuable addition to the literature on anthropology as cultural critique, and anthropological intersections with the colonial project. . . . An impressive and comprehensive piece of research. . . . A necessary reference book for all anthropologists who are interested in sexuality.”—Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History“Andrew and Harriet Lyons have drawn on over two decades of study in and about Africa to craft this impressive, thought-provoking book. They analyze numerous examples of the sometimes shockingly shoddy scholarship that was used to make (but also sometimes to refute) racist, misogynist, and homophobic arguments about sexuality to North American and British audiences. Irregular Connections should help grid us non-anthropologists with a more rigorously critical understanding of their (and by extension, our) disciplines.”—Marc Epprecht, International Journal of African Historical Studies“Given anthropology’s focus on the intersections between the biological and the cultural one might reasonably expect that it would have a lot to say about sexuality. But instead, anthropology has been accused of avoiding sexuality. . . . Irregular Connections offers a useful corrective to these accounts. . . . Because of the breadth of their review and its historical depth, it is sure to become a common reference for those whose work in sexuality has a much more contemporary slant.”—Ellen Lewin, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences“The Lyonses have provided us with a much-needed volume on the history of sexuality and the ways in which Western analysts have used non-Western cultural ‘others’ to support their own ideologies of sex and power. . . . Its publication works toward legitimizing the academic study of sex and sexuality and challenging anthropologists and other scholars to think more self-consciously about representations of sexuality, historical and otherwise.”—Journal of the History of Sexuality Table of ContentsContents Introduction 1. Three Images of Primitive Sexuality and the Definition of Species; 2. Sex and the Refuge for Destitute Truth; 3. Matriarchy, Marriage by Capture, and Other Fantasies; 4. The Reconstruction of "Primitive Sexuality" at the Fin de Siecle; 5. "Old Africa Hands"; 6. Malinowski as "Reluctant Sexologist"; 7. Margaret Mead, the Future of Language, and Lost Opportunities; 8. The "Silence"; 9. Sex in Contemporary Anthropology Conclusions and Unfinished Business
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University of Nebraska Press Native American Spirituality
Book SynopsisGiven the legacy of misrepresentation and mistrust, is it possible to appreciate the religious meanings and experiences of Native Americans? This title offers a multidisciplinary set of essays that explore the problems and prospects of understanding and writing about Native American spirituality in the twenty-first century.Table of ContentsPART ONE: THEORETICAL CONCERNS Mediations of the Spirit: Native American Religious Traditions and the Ethics of Representation Ines Hernandes-Avila Cultural Identity, Authenticity, and Community Survival: The Politics of Recognition in the Study of Native American Religions John A. Grim Spirituality for Sale: Sacred Knowledge in the Consumer Age. Christopher Ronwanien:te Jocks This May Be a Feud, But It's Not a War: An Electronic, Interdisciplinary Dialogue on Teaching Native Religions Ronald L. Grimes PART TWO: DIALOGICAL RELATIONS Voice, Representation and Dialogue: The Poetics of Native American Spiritual Traditions Robin Ridington Pimadaziwin: Contemporary Rituals in Odawa Community Melissa A. Pflug The Church of the Immaculate Conception: Inculturation and Identity among the Anishnaabeg of Manitoulin Island Theresa S. Smith Nahuas and National Culture: A Contest of Appropriations Richard Haly Knowledge, Negotiation and NAGPRA: Reconceptualizing Repatriation Discourses Pia Alteri PART THREE: HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS Repatriating the Past- Recreating Indian History Clara Sue Kidwell Purity and Pollution: Unearthing an Oppositional Paradigm in the Study of Cherokee Religious Traditions Mary C. Churchill Kiowa Religion in Historical Perspective Benjamin R. Kracht The Shaker Church and the Indian Way in Native Northwest California Thomas Buckley Intertribal Traditionalism and the Religious Roots of Red Power James Treat A Brief History of Native American Religious Resistance Lee Irwin
£17.99
University of Nebraska Press Repatriation Reader
Book SynopsisThe repatriation of Native American skeletal remains and funerary objects has become a lightning rod for radically opposing views about cultural patrimony and the relationship between Native communities and archaeologists. This book offers views on repatriation and the ethical, political, legal, cultural, and economic dimensions of this issue.Trade Review"[A] compact history of a complex and continuing debate."—Museum Anthropology
£15.19
University of Nebraska Press Hopi Animal Stories
Book SynopsisA collection of thirty traditional Hopi stories in English translation, about animals and their importance in Hopi culture. The narratives reveal attitudes toward important aspects of Hopi culture, such as courtship and relations between the sexes, friendship, courage, industry, healing, and the treatment of children.Trade Review"These are stories of wry good humor, of wise and foolish animals and people, each with a kernel of wisdom."—Multicultural ReviewTable of ContentsTable of Contents Preface Introduction: Folklore and the Hopi Animal Tales The Tales 1The Man and the Ants 2 How Field Mouse Helped the People of Mishongnovi 3 Medicine Man Badger 4 How the Coyotes Celebrated the Bean Dance 5 The Firefly 6 The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Medicine Man 7 The Mistreated Cats 8 Coyote and Bee 9 The Chipmunk Girls Who Ground Pinyon Nuts 10 The Flood at Wuukopaqlo 11 Crow and Hawk 12 Coyote and the Ducks 13 How the Ants Initiated Their Children into the Kachina Society 14 How the Hopis Got Fire 15 How Coyote Became Infatuated with Girls 16 The Cicadas and the Serpents 17 The House Mice and the Boy from Huk'ovi 18 Coyote and the Lice 19 The Deer Mice 20 How Mockingbird Took a Wife 21 The Owl That Made Off with a Little Child 22 How Coyote and Hummingbird Satirized Bat in a Song 23 How Weasel Befriended the Moon 24 Sand Cricket 25 Why the Pocket Mice Staged a Dance 26 Coyote and Badger as Food Robbers 27 The Crying Cicada 28 The Gambling Boy Who Married a Bear Girl 29 The Antelope Kids 30 Wren and Bullsnake Appendix I: Glossary Appendix II: The Hopi Alphabet
£18.04
University of Nebraska Press Kokopelli
Book SynopsisDescribes the development of the Kokopelli phenomenon in American mass culture from its beginning to Kokopelli's status as pan-Southwestern icon. This book explores the figure's connections with the Hopi kachina god, Kookopolo and Maahu, the Cicada, and discusses how this rock art image is appropriated and misunderstood.Trade Review"Informative and interesting."-Cathy Mencin, Denver Westerners Roundup -- Cathy Mencin Denver Westerners Roundup
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University of Nebraska Press Coming to Shore Northwest Coast Ethnology
Book SynopsisThe Northwest Coast of North America was home to dozens of Native peoples at the time of its first contact with Europeans. This work provides a historical overview of the ethnology and ethnohistory of this region, and focuses on contemporary, theoretically informed studies of communities and issues.Trade Review“Those familiar with the region and the various cultures will find it not only useful, but stimulating. Throughout the papers, oral and written history, data, linguistics, and theory are all woven together in both the Lévi-Strauss and Boasian approaches to understanding people and their cultures. . . . I highly recommend Coming to Shore for any serious student of the Northwest Coast and its cultural history.”—Artic"The chapters confirm the editors' introductory assertion that the North Pacific Coast is central to the history of anthropology for reasons that go beyond the fact that this was where Boas conducted his pioneering research. Taken together, the chapters reinforce both the extent of the Boasian legacy and the continuing vitality of research in the area."—Robert L. A. Hancock, BC Studies“At once a history of Northwest Coast anthropology, a contribution to it, and a commentary on ethnographic practice. . . . Coming to Shore is most interesting in its presentation of a Northwest Coast ethnography that could be used ‘as a setting for a novel.’ It also presents a close look at the cultures of academic traditions in France and North America.”—Robin Ridington, Journal of Anthropological Research
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University of Nebraska Press Myths and Tales of the Chiricahua Apache Indians
Book Synopsis"We are dealing here with a living literature,” wrote Morris Edward Opler in his preface to Myths and Tales of the Chiricahua Apache Indians. First published in 1942 by the American Folk-Lore Society, this is another classic study by the author of Myths and Tales of the Jicarilla Apache Indians.
£999.99
MQ - University of Nebraska Press Choctaws in a Revolutionary Age 17501830
Book SynopsisTells the story of the Choctaws which is told through the lives of two remarkable leaders, Taboca and Franchimastabe, during a period of revolutionary change, 1750-1830.Trade Review"O'Brien's work is solid and the research impeccable."-The Chronicles of Oklahoma The Chronicles of Oklahoma "A significant step forward, one of a small number of recent southeastern Indian histories that begin by taking native cultures seriously and viewing Choctaw beliefs and understandings of the world as crucial to the ways in which native people acted and reacted as historical actors... O'Brien is to be commended for attempting this difficult and necessary work."-Jason Baird Jackson, The Alabama Review -- Jason Baird Jackson The Alabama Review "Greg O'Brian carefully contextualizes the internal dynamics of kinship and spiritual authority with the external forces of European settler encroachment and trade to analyze how the Choctaw accommodated, yet maintained, their traditional culture in an era of revolutionary change... This book is an important starting point for reassessing the evolution of the Choctaw and their neighbors in the second half of the eighteenth century."-Allan Gallay, The American Historical Review -- Allan Gallay The American Historical Review
£19.94
University of Nebraska Press Yuwipi
Book SynopsisYuwipi is the Oglala Sioux version of an ancient and widespread ritual in which a shaman is bound and, in the darkness, calls spirits to come and free him and to communicate with his audience. This book shows how this ritual is related to two other old institutions, the vision quest and the sweat lodge.Trade Review". . . Powers achievement is significant and subtle: he preserves the most important words of a dying culture and makes a disguised, aching plea for its continuance."—Village Voice"Yuwipi is the present-day Oglala Sioux version of an ancient and widespread ritual in which a shaman is bound and, in the darkness, calls spirits to come and free him and to communicate with his audience. The author, who has a long and intimate acquaintance with the Oglala, shows how this ritual is related to two other old institutions, the vision quest and the sweat lodge. He does so through a vivid account of how the shaman Plenty Wolf guided an anguished young man to a vision, cured the boy's father, and gathered communal support for them through these ceremonies."—Choice
£11.39
University of Nebraska Press Pueblo Indian Religion Volume 1
Book SynopsisThe rich religious beliefs and ceremonials of the Pueblo Indians of Arizona and New Mexico were first synthesized and compared by ethnologist Elsie Clews Parsons. In this title, the author gives an integrated picture of the religious and social life in the pueblos, including Zuni, Jemez, Cochiti, Santa Domingo, San Juan, and the Hopi villages.Trade Review"An indispensable source book for every student of Indian life."—Science"A cornerstone and monumental contribution to American ethnology."—American Anthropologist
£31.50
University of Nebraska Press Pueblo Indian Religion Volume 2
Book SynopsisSynthesizes and compares the religious beliefs and ceremonials of the Pueblo Indians of Arizona and New Mexico. This title gives an integrated picture of the complex religious and social life in the pueblos, including Zuni, Acoma, Laguna, Taos, Isleta, Sandia, Jemez, cochiti, Santa Clara, San Felipe, Santa Domingo, San Juan, and the Hopi villages.Trade Review"An indispensable source book for every student of Indian life."—Science"A cornerstone and monumental contribution to American ethnology."—American Anthropologist
£999.99
University of Nebraska Press Myths and Traditions of the Arikara Indians
Book SynopsisThough much has been written about the Arikaras, their own accounts of themselves and the world as they see it have been available only in limited scholarly editions. This collection is the first to make Arikara myths, tales, and stories widely accessible. The book presents voices of the Arikara past closely translated into idiomatic English.
£21.59
