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An interdisciplinary exploration of indigenous bodies.

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Author:   Jacqueline Fear-Segal ,  Rebecca Tillett
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.481kg
ISBN:  

9781438448213

ISBN 10:   143844821
Pages:   245
Publication Date:   01 October 2013
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgements Editor's Introduction Jacqueline Fear-Segal and Rebecca Tillett Foreword: ""Of bodies changed to other forms I tell"": Tumblebuggery, Creation Stories, and Songs Carter Revard Part I. Visual Representations 1. Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Indigenous Bodies, Indigenous Stories in a Post-Columbian World Carolyn Kastner 2. Restating Idigenous Presence in Eastern Dakota and Ho Chunk (Winnebago) Portraits of the 1830s-1860s Stephanie Pratt Part II. Dismemberment and Display 3. Plaster-Cast Indians at the National Museum Jacqueline Fear-Segal 4. William Lanne's Pipe: Reclaiming the ""Last"" Tasmanian Male Lynette Russell Part III. Gender and Sexuality 5. Sodomy, Ambiguity, and Feminization: Homosexual Meanings and the Male Native American Body Max Carocci 6. Devil with the Face of an Angel: Physical and Moral Descriptions of Aboriginal People by Missionary Emile Petitot Murielle Nagy photo gallery follows page 98 Part IV. Imagination and Commodification 7. Marketing Indigenous Bodies in the Fiction of Leslie Marmon Silko, Louise Erdrich, and Sherman Alexie Joanna Ziarkowska 8. Stories from the Womb-Esther Belin's From the Belly of My Beauty Ewelina Banka Part V. Dis-ease and Healing 9. Prayer with Pain: Ceremonial Suffering among the Mi'kmaq Suzanne Owen 10. Coping with Colonization: Aboriginal Diabetes on Manitoulin Island Darrel Manitowabi and Marion Maar Part VI. Physical Landscapes 11. Representing Indigenous Bodies in Epeli Hau'ofa and Syaman Rapogan Hsinya Huang 12. The Many Indigenous Bodies of Kai Tahu Khyla Russell and Samuel Mann Contributors Index"

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Jacqueline Fear-Segal is Reader in American History and Culture at the University of East Anglia and the author of White Man's Club: Schools, Race, and the Struggle of Indian Acculturation. Rebecca Tillett is Senior Lecturer in American Literature and Culture at the University of East Anglia and the author of Contemporary Native American Literature.

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