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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.
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Table 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
