1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910781876603321

Autore

Stremlau Rose

Titolo

Sustaining the Cherokee family [[electronic resource] ] : kinship and the allotment of an Indigenous nation / / Rose Stremlau

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2011

ISBN

1-4696-0274-1

0-8078-6910-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 p.)

Collana

First peoples : new directions in indigenous studies

Disciplina

976.6004/97557

Soggetti

Cherokee Indians - Land tenure

Cherokee Indians - Cultural assimilation

Cherokee Indians - Kinship

Allotment of land - Government policy - Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma

Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma History

Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma Social conditions

United States Social policy

United States Race relations

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 index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE. Arriving; CHAPTER TWO. Belonging; CHAPTER THREE. Debating; CHAPTER FOUR. Enrolling; CHAPTER FIVE. Dividing; CHAPTER SIX. Transforming; CHAPTER SEVEN. Adapting; CHAPTER EIGHT. Sustaining; Conclusion; Afterword; Appendix: Note on Sources; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Sommario/riassunto

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the federal government sought to forcibly assimilate Native Americans into American society through systematized land allotment. In Sustaining the Cherokee Family, Rose Stremlau illuminates the impact of this policy on the Cherokee Nation, particularly within individual families and communities in modern-day northeastern Oklahoma. Emphasizing Cherokee agency, Stremlau reveals that Cherokee families'



organization, cultural values, and social and economic practices allowed them to adapt to private land ownership by incorpor

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910830704903321

Autore

MacClancy Jeremy

Titolo

Anthropology in the Public Arena [[electronic resource] ] : Historical and Contemporary Contexts

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Wiley, 2013

ISBN

1-118-47553-4

1-118-47552-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (342 p.)

Disciplina

301

301.0941

Soggetti

Anthropology - Great Britain - History

Anthropology -- Great Britain -- History

Anthropology - Great Britain - Methodology

Anthropology -- Great Britain -- Methodology

Anthropology - Great Britain - Philosophy

Anthropology -- Great Britain -- Philosophy

Anthropology - History - Great Britain

Anthropology - Methodology - Great Britain

Anthropology

Social Sciences

Anthropology - General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Epigraph; Acknowledgments; 1 Beating the Bounds of Discipline? Innovation at the Margins and Beyond; Anthropology for Beginners; Past Imperfect, Present Tense; Bring Out Your Dead; Sketching a History of Anthropology, Popular or Otherwise; Anthropology Foxed; Anthropology Netted, and Other Pagan Practice; Contrasts,



Continuities; 2 John Layard, "Study of a Failure": An Innovative Integrated Approach from the Psychoanalyst; A Life; Stone Men; Diffusing Jung; The Psyche in British Academic Society

3 Geoffrey Gorer, "Britain's Margaret Mead": Blending Anthropology and TravelogueA Life; Africa Sells, Bali Too; Low Living on High Ground? Gorer Does Fieldwork; Allying Anthropology and Neo-Freudianism for the Allies; Keeping Busy; Gorer, Mead, Love, Sex; How to Straddle the Academic and the Popular, Mead-Style; Kinship at the Core: Gorer's Relations with British Anthropologists; Gorer Lives?; 4 Robert Graves: Empowering Anthropological Modes of Explanation in Myth and Ritual; A Life; Rivers, Graves, the Trenches, the Underworld; Goddesses, Muses, and Other Modes of Thought

Magic, Witchcraft, and Other Gravesian Modes of ThoughtAnthropologica; Academe, the Poet, and the Popular; The Perils of Collaborating with Charisma; Anthropologists, Academic and Otherwise; Of the Poker- and the Po-Faced: Graves, His Critics, and His Co-Believers; 5 Mass Observation: A Radical, Popular Ethnography of the People, by the People, and for the People; A Democratic Surrealism; A Day in the Life; Going Bush in Bolton; Observing Mass Observation; Assessing Mass Observation; From MO to PoMo; 6 The Literary Image of the Anthropologist; A Note on Terminology, and a Caveat; Character

FieldworkFunction; No Time for a Conclusion?; 7 Parting Comments: Public Interest, Multiple Anthropologies; Bibliography; Archives; Interviews; Books, Articles; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This articulate and authoritative survey of both the popular and academic trends in anthropology demonstrates the broad relevance of anthropological knowledge and argues for a more inclusive conception of the discipline that engages the public imagination. Demonstrates the evolving social contexts of British anthropological theory and practice from the mid-19th centuryHighlights the importance of popular anthropology in forming and sustaining the professional disciplineExplores the past and present cross-fertilization of anthropologists, scientists and prominent