1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910318258403321

Autore

Demandt, Alexander <1937- >

Titolo

Zeitenwende : Aufsätze zur Spätantike / Alexander Demandt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, ©2013

ISBN

9783110294613

9783110294675

Descrizione fisica

XIV, 559 p., [1] c. di tav. : ill. ; 25 cm

Collana

Beiträge zur Altertumskunde ; 311

Disciplina

937.08

937.09

Locazione

FLFBC

Collocazione

937.08 DEM 1

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454620903321

Autore

Brooks Lisa Tanya

Titolo

The common pot [[electronic resource] ] : the recovery of native space in the Northeast / / Lisa Brooks

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2008

ISBN

0-8166-6629-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (410 p.)

Collana

Indigenous Americas

Disciplina

305.897074

970.004/97

Soggetti

Geographical perception - North America

Indian philosophy

Indians of North America - Psychology

Sacred space - North America

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--Cornell University, 2004).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-319) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; A Note on the Maps; Introduction: A Map to the Common Pot; 1. Alnôbawôgan, Wlôgan, Awikhigan: Entering Native Space; 2. Restoring a Dish Turned Upside Down: Samson Occom, the Mohegan Land Case, and the Writing of Communal Remembrance; 3. Two Paths to Peace: Competing Visions of the Common Pot; 4. Regenerating the Village Dish: William Apess and the Mashpee Woodland Revolt; 5. Envisioning New England as Native Space; 6. Awikhigawôgan: Mapping the Genres of Indigenous Writing in the Network of Relations

7. Concluding Thoughts from Wabanaki Space: Literacy and the Oral TraditionNotes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Literary critics frequently portray early Native American writers either as individuals caught between two worlds or as subjects who, even as they defied the colonial world, struggled to exist within it. In striking counterpoint to these analyses, Lisa Brooks demonstrates the ways in which Native leaders-including Samson Occom, Joseph Brant, Hendrick Aupaumut, and William Apess-adopted writing as a tool to reclaim



rights and land in the Native networks of what is now the northeastern United States. "The Common Pot," a metaphor that appears in Native writings during the eighteenth and nineteenth