Overview

The essays gathered in this volume celebrate the founding of the American Indian Workshop (AIW) twenty-five years ago as a European forum for Native American studies. We present this collection of ongoing debates on the interlaced and interlocking arena of Native American studies and its complicated relation with Native Americans themselves. These debates tie in with such questions as: Can Native American studies shake off its past and deal with the complexity of political and academic issues in the present? Why, by whom and for whom is research conducted within this domain and who decides what the next step should be? This volume is a modest response to these questions, to the validation and substantiation of the cat's cradle of practices of the many disciplines that comprise Native American studies, and an attempt to ask the right questions, to get past the imperial categories, and to thoughtfully mediate and reorientate perspectives.

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Author:   Barbara Saunders ,  Lea Zuyderhoudt
Publisher:   Leuven University Press
Imprint:   Leuven University Press
Volume:   8
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.680kg
ISBN:  

9789058673794

ISBN 10:   9058673790
Pages:   338
Publication Date:   01 January 2004
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part I: Introduction The Complexity of the Moment by Barbara Saunders Responding to Native Amercian Voices by Lea Zuyderhoudt The Contributions by Barbara Saunders Appendix: AIW Themes Part II: Framing the Topos The Amercian Indian Workshop Origin Myth and Allied Relations by Christian F. Feest Native Amercian Studies Beyond Neo-Liberal Relativism by Barbara Saunders Part III: Negotiations Feeling Implicated by Charlotte Townsend-Gault Totem Poles and Contemporary Tourism by Aldona Jonaitis and Aaron Glass Reconfiguring Gender in Contemporary Urban Powwows by Massimiliano Carocci Part IV: Contestations Indians as Mascots: Perpetuating the Stereotype by Alfred Young Man Not a Cultural Relativist: The Legacy and Burden of Franz Boas by Barbara Saunders Weaving Culture: Connecting Objects, Words and Memory in Southwestern Alaska by Molly Lee Part V: Dialogues and Research The Use of Inuit Qaujimatjaatuqangit in Modern Society: Elders from Kivalliq and Nattilik Present their views by Jarich Oosten and Frederic Laugrand Accounts of the Past as Part of the Present: The Value of Divergent Interpretations of Blackfoor History by Lea Zuyderhoudt George Catlin's Account(s) of the O-kee-pa in Concordance with Other Sources by Christer Lindberg Brides of a Morning Star: The Petalesharo Legend and the Skiri Pawnee Rite of Human Sacrifice in Amercian Popular Fiction by Mark van de Logt Rock Saline, a Pawnee Sacred Place by Patricia J. O'Brien Part VI: Appropriation, Adaptation and Recontextualisation The Public Faces of Sarah Winnemucca by Joanna Cohan Scherer Mato-Tope's Knife and Crazy Horse's Shield: Use of Ethnographic Objects as Cultural Documents by Riku Hamalainen Encountering Native Americans in Unexpected Places: Slichtenhorst and the Mohawks by Charles Gehring Wakan'yan. Powerful Reflections: Mirrors and the Plains Indians by Colin Taylor Part VII: Reknitting the World Seeking Balance through History and Communtiy: The Presence of the Past in LeAnne Howe's Shell Shaker (2001) by Hans Bak A Wounded Eagle Soars over the Hills of Mississippi!: A Choctaw Story by Raeschelle J.Potter-Deimel

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