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Informationen zum Autor Thomas Biolsi is Professor of Native American Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. Among his publications are Deadliest Enemies: Law and Race Relations on and Off Rosebud Reservation (2007/2001), Indians and Anthropologists: Vine Deloria, Jr., and the Critique of Anthropology (edited with Larry Zimmerman, 1997), and Organizing the Lakota: The Political Economy of the New Deal on Pine Ridge and Rosebud Reservations (1992). Klappentext The status of American Indians has long been rooted in a view of Indians as members of indigenous polities with distinct cultures. Often, these cultures have been characterized by dominant colonial authorities as 'savage' or 'primitive, ' and it is the discipline of anthropology that, willingly and wittingly, or not, helped to make the idea of 'the primitive' into a social reality. Consequently, the 'tribal slot' inhabited by American Indians - with both its benefits and its oppressions - is difficult to imagine without the discipline of anthropology. A Companion to the Anthropology of American Indians contains 27 original contributions by leading scholars who work actively as researchers in American Indian communities, or on the topic of American Indians. The book summarizes the state of anthropological knowledge of Indian peoples, as well as the history that got us to this point. Treated here is the full range of American Indian anthropology: from ecological and political-economic questions to topics concerning religion, language, and expressive culture. Each chapter provides definitive coverage of its topic while situating ethnographic and ethnohistorical data in a broader framework. This framework includes the linked histories of American Indians and anthropology, the role of continued native resistance in changing both the situation of Indian people and the content of anthropology, and the potential role of anthropology in an anti-colonial project that speaks to the pressing concerns of contemporary Indians. Zusammenfassung Summarizes the state of anthropological knowledge of Indian peoples. This book surveys the full range of American Indian anthropology: from ecological and political-economic questions to topics concerning religion! language! and expressive culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Synopsis of Contents x Notes on Contributors xviii Introduction: What is the ''Anthropology'' of ''American Indians''? 1 Thomas Biolsi Part I: Environments and Populations 5 1 Political and Historical Ecologies 7 Kenneth M. Ames 2 Historical Demography 24 Russell Thornton Part II: Political, Social, and Economic Organization 49 3 Women and Men 51 Martha C. Knack 4 Politics 69 Loretta Fowler 5 Tribal or Native Law 95 Bruce Granville Miller 6 Culture and Reservation Economies 112 Kathleen Pickering Part III: Knowledge and Expressive Culture 131 7 Knowledge Systems 133 Eugene S. Hunn 8 Oral Traditions 154 Rodney Frey 9 Religion 171 Raymond Bucko 10 Music 196 Luke Eric Lassiter 11 Art 212 Rebecca J. Dobkins Part IV: Colonialism, Native Sovereignty, Law, and Policy 229 12 Political and Legal Status (''Lower 48'' States) 231 Thomas Biolsi 13 Political and Legal Status of Alaska Natives 248 Caroline L. Brown 14 Federal Indian Policy and Anthropology 268 George Pierre Castile 15 Contemporary Globalization and Tribal Sovereignty 284 Randel D. Hanson 16 Treaty Rights 304 Larry Nesper 17 Education 321 Alice Littlefield Part V: Cultural Politics and the Colonial Situation 339 18 Represe...
