New Perspectives on Native North America: Cultures, Histories, and Representations

Abstract

Part One. Perspectives: On the Genealogy and Legacy of an Anthropological Tradition 1. Keeping the Faith: A Legacy of Native American Ethnography, Ethnohistory, and Psychology - Regna Darnell 2. Fields of Dreams: Revisiting A. I. Hallowell and the Berens River Ojibwe - Jennifer S. H. Brown 3. Framing the Anomalous: Stoneclad, Sequoyah, and Cherokee Ethnoliteracy - Margaret Bender Part Two. Cultures: On Persons and Power, Rituals and Creativity 4. Power as the Transmission of Culture - Greg Urban 5. Ironies of Articulating Continuity at Lac du Flambeau - Larry Nesper 6. The Poetics of Tropes and Dreams in Arapaho Ghost Dance Songs - Jeffrey D. Anderson 7. Night Thoughts and Night Sweats, Ethnohistory and Ethnohumor: The Quaker Shaker Meets the Lakota Sweat Lodge - Raymond A. Bucko, S.J. 8. Self-consciousness, Ceremonialism, and the Problem of the Present in the Anthropology of Native North America - Robert E. Moore Part Three. Histories: On Varieties of Temporal Experience and Historical Representation 9. Native Authorship in Northwestern California - Thomas Buckley 10. The Sioux at the Time of European Contact: An Ethnohistorical Problem - Raymond DeMallie 11. Proto-Ethnologists in North America - Mary Druke Becker 12. Folklore, Personal Narratives, and Ethno-Ethnohistory - Joseph C. Jastrzembski 13. Events and Nonevents on the Tlingit/Russian/American Colonial Frontier, 1802-1879 - Sergei A. Kan 14. Time and the Individual in Native North America - David W. Dinwoodie Part Four. Representations: On Selves and Others, Hybridities and Appropriations 15. Culture and Culture Theory in Native North America - Robert Brightman 16. Cannibals in the Mountains: Washoe Teratology and the Donner Party - Barrik Van Winkle 17. Vanishing Indians in Nineteenth-Century New England: Local Historians' Erasure of Still-Present Indian Peoples - Jean M. O'Brien 18. Pocahontas: An Exercise in Mythmaking and Marketing - Frederic W. Gleach 19. I'm an Old Cowhand on the Banks of the Seine: Representations of Indians and Le Far West in Parisian Commercial Culture - Michael E. Harkin 20. To Light the Fire of Our Desire: Primitivism in the Camp Fire Girls - Pauline Turner Strong