Southern Indians and Anthropologists - Culture, Politics and Identity

Informationen zum Autor Lisa J. Lefler (Editor) > Frederick W. Gleach (Editor) FREDERIC W. GLEACH, visiting scholar at Cornell University, is a historical anthropologist working in North America, Puerto Rico, and Cuba. He is author of Powhatan's World and Colonial Virginia: A Conflict of Cultures . Klappentext These 11 papers document some of the many ways in which anthropologists and Native Americans are striving to work together at higher levels of accountability and mutual enrichment. They range in setting from a children's summer school programme to a museum of history and culture. Zusammenfassung The contributors consider such issues as education, community development, funding, and the preservation of languages, sacred texts, oral traditions, and artifacts. They also offer personal insights into the pressures that can bear on working relationships between anthropologists and Native Americans.

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• Authors: Lisa J. Gleach Lefler
• Assisted by: Michael Angrosino (Editor), Frederic W. Gleach (Editor), Frederick W Gleach (Editor), Lisa J Lefler (Editor), Lisa J. Lefler (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2002
• EAN: 9780820323558
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-2355-8
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Southern Anthropological Socie; Southern Anthropological Society Proceedings; Southern Anthropological Socie
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology