ISBN:
0877455465
,
0877455473
,
9780877455479
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (vi, 277 p)
,
ill., maps
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version History, Power, and Identity : Ethnogenesis in the Americas, 1492-1992
DDC:
305.8/0097
Keywords:
Ethnic groups
;
Ethnicity
;
Ethnic groups ; America
;
Ethnicity ; America
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
For the past five centuries, indigenous and African American communities throughout the Americas have sought to maintain and recreate enduring identities under conditions of radical change and discontinuity. The essays in this groundbreaking volume document this cultural activity-this ethnogenesis-within and against the broader contexts of domination; the authors simultaneously encompass the entanglements of local communities in the webs of national and global power relations as well as people's unique abilities to gain control over their history and identity.By defining
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Introduction: Ethnogenesis in the Americas, 1492-1992 - Jonathan D. Hill; Ethnogenesis and Ethnocide in the European Occupation of Native Surinam, 1499-1681 - Neil Lancelot Whitehead; Remnants, Renegades, and Runaways: Seminole Ethnogenesis Reconsidered - Richard A. Sattler; Ethnogenesis in the South Plains: Jumano to Kiowa? - Nancy P. Hickerson; Changing Patterns of Ethnicity in the Northeastern Plains, 1780-1870 - Patricia C. Albers; Ethnogenesis in the Guianas and Jamaica: Two Maroon Cases - Kenneth Bilby
Description / Table of Contents:
Ethnogenesis in the Northwest Amazon: An Emerging Regional Picture - Jonathan D. Hill Fighting in a Different Way: Indigenous Resistance through the Alleluia Religion of Guyana - Susan K. Staats; Cimarrones, Theater, and the State - David M. Guss; The Ecuadorian Levantamiento Indígena of 1990 and the Epitomizing Symbol of 1992: Reflections on Nationalism, Ethnic-Bloc Formation, and Racialist Ideologies - Norman E. Whitten Jr.; Notes on Contributors; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-265) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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