The Challenges of Native American Studies
Essays in Celebration of the Twenty-Fifth American Indian Workshop
Published on 1. January 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
338 pages
978-90-5867-379-4 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
Leuven
Belgium
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Weight
680 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-5867-379-4 (9789058673794)
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Content
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 Haemaelaeinen
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
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 Haemaelaeinen
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