We Shall Live Again - The 1870 and 1890 Ghost Dance Movements As Demographic Revitalization

Klappentext A study of the 1870 and 1890 Ghost Dance movements among North American Indians. Zusammenfassung This study of the 1870 and 1890 Ghost Dance movements among North American Indians offers an innovative theory about why these movements arose when they did. Professor Thornton argues that the Ghost Dances were deliberate efforts to accomplish a demographic revitalization of American Indians following their virtual collapse. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. The 1870 and 1890 Ghost Dance movements; 2. Prior scholarship on the Ghost Dance movements; 3. Hypothesis of demographic revitalization; 4. Depopulation and the Ghost Dance movements; 5. Ghost Dance participation and depopulation; 6. Participation and population recovery; 7. A summary, a conclusion, some implications; Technical appendixes; References; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Russell Thornton
• Assisted by: Ernest Q. Campbell (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.12.2006
• EAN: 9780521034524
• ISBN: 978-0-521-03452-4
• No. of pages: 112
• Series: American Sociological Associat
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology