ANTH 303 Indigenous Cultures Today  

Select Bibliography (in progress)

The following is not a comprehensive bibliography adequate for the range of issues covered by the course. It may, however, provide some assistance for students seeking a research topic or further reading related to lecture material. In addition to these items, I also recommend that you see the LINKS section of the course website.

BOOKS

Alia, Valerie. 1999. Un/Covering the North: News, Media and Aboriginal People. Vancouver: UBC Press.

Apffel-Marglin, Frederique, ed. 1998. The Spirit of Regeneration. London: Zed Books.

Axtell, James. 1988. After Columbus: Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Bodley, John H. 1990. Victims of Progress, 3rd ed. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield.

Bowles, R.P.; Hanley, J. L.; Hodgins, B. W.; and, Rawlyk, G.A. 1972. The Indian: Assimilation, Integration or Separation. Scarborough, Ontario: Prentice-Hall.

Champagne, Duane, ed. 1999. Contemporary Native American Cultural Issues. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press.

Christensen, Neil Blair. 2003. Inuit in Cyberspace: Embedding Offline Identities Online. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press.

Churchill, Ward. 1996. From A Native Son: Selected Essays on Indigenism, 1985-1995. Boston: South End Press.

Cornell, Stephen. 1998. The Return of the Native: American Indian Political Resurgence. New York: Oxford University Press.

Cummins, Bryan D. 2004. “Only God Can Own the Land”: The Attawapiskat Cree. Toronto: Pearson/Prentice Hall.

Deloria, Vine, Jr. 1969. Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto. New York: Macmillan.

Forte, Maximilian C., ed. 2006. Indigenous Resurgence in the Contemporary Caribbean: Amerindian Survival and Revival. New York: Peter Lang [forthcoming]

Frideres, James S., and Gadacz, René R. 2005. Aboriginal Peoples in Canada. 7th ed. Toronto: Pearson/Prentice Hall.

Getty, Ian A. L., and Antoine S. Lussier, eds. 1983. As Long as the Sun Shines and Water Flows: A Reader in Canadian Native Studies. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.

Grobsmith, Elizabeth S. 2001. Lakota of the Rosebud: A Contemporary Ethnography. Toronto: Wadsworth/Thomson Custom Publishing.

Gullick. Charles J.M.R. 1985. Myths of a Minority: The Changing Traditions of the Vincentian Caribs. Assen, The Netherlands: Van Gorcum & Co.

Harkin, Michael E., ed. 2004. Reassessing Revitalization Movements: Perspectives from North America and the Pacific Islands. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Iverson, Peter. 1998. We Are Still Here: American Indians in the Twentieth Century. Wheeling, IL: Harlan Davidson.

Josephy, Alvin M. Jr., Joane Nagel, and Troy Johnson. 1999. Red Power: The American Indians' Fight for Freedom. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Keith, Michael C. 1995. Signals in the Air: Native Broadcasting in America. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1995.

Lawrence, Bonita. 2004. "Real" Indians and Others: Mixed-Blood Urban Native Peoples and Indigenous Nationhood. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Lee, Richard B. 2003. The Dobe Ju/’hoansi. 3rd ed. Toronto: Wadsworth/Thomson

Maybury-Lewis, David. 2002. Indigenous Peoples, Ethnic Groups, and the State. 2nd ed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

McIntosh, Ian S. 2000. Aboriginal Reconciliation and the Dreaming: Warramiri Yolngu and the Quest for Equality. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

Miller, Bruce Granville. 2003. Invisible Indigenes: The Politics of Nonrecognition. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Morrison, R. Bruce, and Wilson, C. Roderick, eds. 2004. Native Peoples: The Canadian Experience. 3rd ed. Don Mills, Ontario: Oxford University Press.

Niezen, Ronald. 2003. The Origins of Indigenism: Human Rights and the Politics of Identity. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Oswalt, Wendell H. 2002. This Land Was Theirs: A Study of Native Americans. 7th ed. Boston: McGraw Hill.

Peterson, Jacqueline, and Jennifer S. H. Brown, eds. 1985. The New Peoples: Being and Becoming Métis in North America. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press.

Pointing, J. Rick, ed. 1986. Arduous Journey: Canadian Indians and Decolonization. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.

Reed, Richard. 1997. Forest Dwellers, Forest Protectors: Indigenous Models for International Development. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

Robinson, Angela. 2005. Ta’n Teli-ktlamsitasit (Ways of Believing): Mi’kmaw Religion in Eskasoni, Nova Scotia. Toronto: Pearson/Prentice Hall.

Sanders, Andrew. 1987. The Powerless People: An Analysis of the Amerindians of the Corentyne River. London: Macmillan Caribbean

Sissons, Jeff. 2005. First Peoples: Indigenous Cultures and their Future. London: Reaktion Books.

Sutton, Mark. 2003. An Introduction to Native North America. 2nd ed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

Urban, Greg and Joel Sherzer, eds. 1991. Nation-States and Indians in Latin America. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press.

Van de Fliert, Lydia. 1994. Indigenous Peoples and International Organisations. Nottingham: Spokesman.

Wallace, Anthony, F. C. 1969. The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca. New York: Vintage Press.

Wallace, Anthony F. C. 2003. Revitalization and Mazeways: Essays on Culture Change, Vol. 1. Edited by Robert S. Grumet. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Wearne, Philip. 1996. Return of the Indian: Conquest and Revival in the Americas. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Weston, Mary Ann. 1996. Native Americans in the News: Images of Indians in the Twentieth Century Press. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press.

Weyler, Rex. 1982. Blood of the Land: The Government and Corporate War Against the American Indian Movement. New York: Vintage Books.

Wilkens, David E. 2002. American Indian Politics and the American Political System. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

Wilmer, Franke. 1993a. The Indigenous Voice in World Politics. London: Sage.

Worth, Sol, and Adair, John. 1972. Through Navajo Eyes: An Exploration in Film Communication and Anthropology. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

ARTICLES and CHAPTERS

Beckett, Jeremy. 1996. “Contested Images: Perspectives on the Indigenous Terrain in the Late 20th Century”. Identities 3 (1-2):1-13.

Conklin, Beth A. 1997. “Body Paint, Feathers, and VCRs: Aesthetics and Authenticity in Amazonian Activism”. American Ethnologist. 24 (4) Nov:711-737.

Díaz-Polanco, Héctor. 1982. “Indigenismo, Populism, and Marxism”. Latin American Perspectives (Issue 33) 9 (2) Spring:42-61.

Drummond, Lee. 1977. “On Being Carib”. In Carib-Speaking Indians: Culture, Society and Language. Ellen B. Basso, ed. Pp. 76-88. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

Field, Les W. 1999. “Complicities and Collaborations: Anthropologists and the ‘Unacknowledged Tribes’ of California”. Current Anthropology 4(2) Apr: 193-209.

Field, Les. 1994. “Who are the Indians?” Latin American Research Review 29 (3):227-238.

Fischer, Edward F. 1999. “Cultural Logic and Maya Identity: Rethinking Constructivism and Essentialism”. Current Anthropology 40(4) Aug-Oct: 473-499.

Friedman, Jonathan. 1999. “Indigenous Struggles and the Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie”. The Australian Journal of Anthropology. 10 (1) Apr:1-14.

Ginsburg, Faye. 2002. “Mediating Culture: Indigenous Media, Ethnographic Film, and the Production of Identity210-236. In Askew, Kelly, and Wilk, Richard R., eds. The Anthropology of Media: A Reader. Oxford: Blackwell. 210-236.

Ginsburg, Faye. 2002. “Screen Memories: Resignifying the Traditional in Indigenous Media”. In Ginsburg, Faye D.; Abu-Lughod, Lila; and, Larkin, Brian. Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain. Berkeley: University of California Press. 39-57.

Ginsburg, Faye. 1994. “Embedded Aesthetics: Creating a Discursive Space for Indigenous Media”. Cultural Anthropology 9 (3), 365-382.

Ginsburg, Faye. 1991. “Indigenous Media: Faustian Contract or Global Village?”. Cultural Anthropology 6 (1), 92-112.

Hanson, Allan. “The Making of the Maori: Culture Invention and its Logic”. American Anthropologist 91: 891-902

Knudson, J. 1980. “Treatment of the Indian in the Bolivian Press”. In Lent, John A., ed. Case Studies of Mass Media in the Third World. Williamsburg, Va.: Dept. of Anthropology, College of William and Mary, 1980.

Landsman, Gail and Ciborski, Sara. 1992. “Representation and Politics: Contesting Histories of the Iroquois”. Cultural Anthropology 7 (4):425-447.

Langton, Marcia. 1993. “Rum, Seduction and Death: ‘Aboriginality’ and Alcohol”. Oceania 63: 195-205.

Lewis, Diane. 1973. “Anthropology and Colonialism”. Current Anthropology 14(5) Dec: 581-602.

Lindberg, Christer. N.d. “The Image of the Native American in the Early Days of Anthropology”. Conference Paper.

Linton, Ralph. 1943. “Nativistic Movements”. American Anthropologist 45: 230-240.

Mato, Daniel. 2000. “Transnational Networking and the Social Production of Representations of Identities by Indigenous Peoples’ Organizations of Latin America”. International Sociology 15 (2) Jun:343-360.

Prins, Harald E.L. 2002. “Visual Media and the Primitivist Perplex: Colonial Fantasies, Indigenous Imagination, and Advocacy in North America”. In Ginsburg, Faye D.; Abu-Lughod, Lila; and, Larkin, Brian, eds. Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain. Berkeley: University of California Press. 58-74.

Ramos, Alcida. 1994. “The Hyperreal Indian”. Critique of Anthropology. 14 (2):153-171.

Roth, Lorna. 2002. “First Peoples’ Television in Canada’s North: A Case Study of the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network”. 295-310. In Attallah, Paul, and Shade, Leslie Regan, eds. Mediascapes: New Patterns in Canadian Communication. Scarborough, Ont: Thomson Nelson. 295-310.

Sackett, Lee. 1991. “Promoting Primitivism: Conservationist Depictions of Aboriginal Australians”. The Australian Journal of Anthropology 2 (2):233-246.

Sahlins, Marshall. 1994. “Cosmologies of Capitalism: The Trans-Pacific Sector of ‘The World System’”. In Culture/Power/History. Nicholas B. Dirks et al., eds. Pp. 412-455. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Sturm, Circe. 1998. “Blood Politics, Racial Classification, and Cherokee National Identity: The Trials and Tribulations of the Cherokee Freedmen”. American Indian Quarterly 22 (1-2) Win/Spr:230-258.

Thompson, Alvin. 1991. “Amerindian-European Relations in Dutch Guyana”. In Caribbean Slave Society and Economy. Hilary Beckles and Verene Shepherd, eds. Pp. 13-27. New York: The New Press.

Trigger, Bruce G. 1988. “A Present of their Past? Anthropologists, Native People, and their Heritage”. Culture 8(1): 71-79.

Turner, Terence. 2002. “Representation, Politics, and Cultural Imagination in Indigenous Video: General Points and Kayapo Examples”. In Ginsburg, Faye D.; Abu-Lughod, Lila; and, Larkin, Brian, eds. Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain. Berkeley: University of California Press. 75-89.

Turner, Terence. 1992. “Defiant Images: The Kayapo Appropriation of Video”. Anthropology Today 8 (6) Dec, 5-16.

Wallace, Anthony F. C. 1956. “Revitalization Movements: Some Theoretical Considerations for Their Comparative Study”. American Anthropologist 58 (2), 264-281.

Warren, Kay B. 1992. “Transforming Memories and Histories: The Meanings of Ethnic Resurgence for Mayan Indians”. In Alfred Stepan, Ed., Americas: New Interpretive Essays, pps. 189-219. New York: Oxford University Press.

Wilmer, Franke.. 1993b. “The International Political Activism of Indigenous Peoples and the World System”. In The Ethnic Dimension in International Relations. Bernard Schechterman and Martin Slann, eds. Pp. 141-166. Westport CT: Praeger.