Shoemaker Clearing a Path

Theorizing the Past in Native American Studies
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-136-69313-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten

Clearing a Path offers new models and ideas for exploring Native American history, drawing from disciplines like history, anthropology, and creative writing making this a must-read for anyone interested in the history of indigenous peoples.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shoemaker, Nancy

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction by Nancy Shoemaker

Stories

Chapter 1. Oral History, Narrative Strategies and Native American Historiography: Perspectives from the Yukon Territory, Canada by Julie Cruikshank
Chapter 2. The Story of America: A Tribalography by LeAnne Howe

Categories of Analysis

Chapter 3. Categories by Nancy Shoemaker
Chapter 4. "Some Women are Wiser Than Some Men": Gender and Native American History by Gunlog Fur

Political Economy

Chapter 5. Marxism and Historical Materialism in American Indian History byPatricia C. Albers
Chapter 6. Primary Sources: Indian Goods and the History of American Colonialism and the Nineteenth-Century Reservation by Jacki Thompson Rand

Tribal Histories, Indigenous Histories

Chapter 7. Keep Your Thoughts Above the Trees: Ideas on Developing and Presenting Tribal Histories by Craig Howe
Chapter 8. Life Proceeds From the Name: Indigenous Peoples and the Predicament of Hybridity by James F. Brooks

Notes on Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Nancy Shoemaker, Associate Professor of History at the University of Connecticut, is the editor of Negotiators of Change: Historical Perspectives on Native American Women and the author of American Indian Population Recovery in the Twentieth Century.