ISBN:
0816632464
,
0816632472
,
9780816632473
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xxviii, 245 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Limits of Multiculturalism : Interrogating the Origins of American Anthropology
DDC:
305.8
Keywords:
Anthropology History
;
Eurocentrism
;
Indians of North America Historiography
;
Indianists History
;
Anthropology ; United States ; History
;
Eurocentrism ; United States
;
Indianists ; History
;
Indians of North America ; Historiography
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
In the early nineteenth century, the profession of American anthropology emerged as European Americans began to make a living by studying the "Indian." Less well known are the AmerIndians who, at that time, were writing and publishing ethnographic accounts of their own people. By bringing to the fore this literature of autoethnography and revealing its role in the forming of anthropology as we know it, this book searches out-and shakes-the foundations of American cultural studies, asserting the importance of the Indian voices to the discipline
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Prolegomenon: Groundwork: The Limits of Multiculturalism; 1. Positions, Ex-Positions, Dis-Positions; 2. Destructuring Whiteness: Color, Animality, Hierarchy; 3. Amerindian Voice(s) in Ethnography; 4. Methodists and Method: Conversion and Representation; 5. Borders of Anthropology, History, and Science; Coda: Anthropology and Archaeo-logicality; Notes; References; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-237) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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