Studying Native America: Problems and ProspectsRussell Thornton Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1998 - 443 strani "The White Man does not understand the Indian for the reason that he does not understand America. He is too far removed from its formative process. The roots of the tree of his life have not yet grasped rock and soil." The words of Lakota writer Luther Standing Bear foretold the current debate on the value of Native American studies in higher education. Studying Native America addresses for the first time in a comprehensive way the place of this critical discipline in the university curriculum. Leading scholars in anthropology, demography, English and literature, history, law, social work, linguistics, public health, psychology, and sociology have come together to explore what Native American studies has been, what it is, and what it may be in the future. The book's thirteen contributors and editor Russell Thornton, stress the frequent incompatibility of traditional academic teaching methods with the social and cultural concerns that gave rise to the field of Native American studies. Beginning with the intellectual and institutional history of Native American studies, the book examines its literature, language, historical narratives, and anthropology. The volume discusses the effects on Native American studies of law and constitutionalism; cosmology, epistemology, and religion; identity; demography; colonialism and post-colonialism; science and technology; and repatriation of human remains and cultural objects. Contributors to Studying Native America include Raymond J. DeMallie, Bonnie Duran, Eduardo Duran, Raymond D. Fogelson, Clara Sue Kidwell, Kerwin Lee Klein, Melissa L. Meyer, John H. Moore, Peter Nabokov, Katheryn Shanley, C. Matthew Snipp, Rennard Strickland, Russell Thornton, J. Randolph Valentine, Robert Allen Warrior, Richard White, and Maria Yellowhorse-Braveheart. The book is sponsored in part by the Social Science Research Council. |
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Introduction and Overview | 3 |
The Demography of Colonialism and Old and New | 17 |
Perspectives on Native American Identity | 40 |
Native Americans and the Trauma of History | 60 |
Institutional and Intellectual Histories | 79 |
American Indian Literature and the Future | 130 |
Linguistics and Languages in Native American Studies | 152 |
Native American Studies and the End of Ethnohistory | 182 |
History and Native American Studies | 217 |
Sovereignty Survival and Self | 247 |
Truth and Tolerance in Native American Epistemology | 271 |
The Foundation for Native American Society | 306 |
Directions in Native American Science and Technology | 357 |
Who Owns Our Past? The Repatriation of Native American | 385 |
A Final Note | 416 |
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