1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450271703321

Autore

Hemmings Annette B

Titolo

Coming of age in U.S. high schools [[electronic resource] ] : economic, kinship, religious, and political crosscurrents / / Annette B. Hemmings

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Mahwah, N.J., : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2004

ISBN

1-135-62120-9

1-282-32114-5

9786612321146

1-4106-0996-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 p.)

Collana

Sociocultural, political, and historical studies in education

Disciplina

373.18/0973

Soggetti

High school seniors - United States - Social conditions

High schools - United States - Sociological aspects

Educational anthropology - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; 1 New Age for Coming of Age; 2 Surface Depths; 3 Economic Domain: Il/licit Pursuit of Mobility; 4 Kinship Domain: Family (Dis)connections; 5 Religious Domain: Freedom of/From Religion; 6 Political Domain: Democracy and Domination; 7 Reaching Shore; Endnotes; References; Appendix; Author Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

Coming of Age in U.S. High Schools: Economic, Kinship, Religious, and Political Crosscurrents takes readers into the lives of urban and suburban adolescents for a close-up look at how they navigate the conflicting discourses and disciplinary practices of American cultural crosscurrents that flow through economic, kinship, religious, and political domains of American life. The book is distinctive in how it combines classic anthropological theory and contemporary post-anthropological perspectives into an innovative framework for understanding adolescent coming of age processes in U.S. pub



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460220303321

Autore

Usner Daniel H

Titolo

Indian work [[electronic resource] ] : language and livelihood in Native American history / / Daniel H. Usner, Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2009

ISBN

0-674-05474-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (215 p.)

Disciplina

330.9730089/97

Soggetti

Indians of North America - Economic conditions

Indians of North America - Employment

Indians of North America - Public opinion

White people - Relations with Indians

Public opinion - United States

Electronic books.

United States Race relations

United States Social policy

United States Economic policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-187) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: The pursuit of livelihood and the production of language -- Inventing the hunter state : Iroquois livelihood in Jeffersonian America -- Narratives of decline and disappearance : the changing presence of American Indians in early Natchez -- The discourse over poverty : Indian treaty rights and welfare policy -- Perceptions of authenticity and passivity : Indian basket making in post-Civil War Louisiana -- Primitivism and tourism : Indian livelihood in D.H. Lawrence's New Mexico.

Sommario/riassunto

Representations of Indian economic life have played an integral role in discourses about poverty, social policy, and cultural difference but have received surprisingly little attention. Daniel Usner dismantles ideological characterizations of Indian livelihood to reveal the intricacy of economic adaptations in American Indian history.