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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789468803321

Titolo

Indigenous bodies : reviewing, relocating, reclaiming / / edited by Jacqueline Fear-Segal and Rebecca Tillett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany : , : State University of New York Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-4384-4822-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (263 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Fear-SegalJacqueline

TillettRebecca

Disciplina

704.03/97

Soggetti

Indian art - North America

Indian philosophy - North America

Indian artists - North America

Human body - Symbolic aspects

Human figure in art

Human body in literature

Indian literature - North America - History and criticism

American literature - Indian authors

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

""Indigenous Bodies: Reviewing, Relocating, Reclaiming""; ""Indigenous Bodies: Reviewing, Relocating, Reclaiming""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Editors Introduction""; ""Notes""; ""Foreword: ""Of bodies changed to other forms I tell"": Tumblebuggery, Creation Stories, and Songs""; ""Where We Come From""; ""Doppelgangers: A Nativity Ode (if only Columbus had . . .)""; ""Thunder: Coyote Tells Why He Sings""; ""Meeting Some Other Indigenous Beings""; ""December Transients""; ""Deer Mice Singing Up Parnassus""; ""Tumblebuggery""; ""Notes""; ""Part I: Visual Representations""

""Chapter 1: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Indigenous Bodies, Indigenous Stories in a Post-Columbian World""""Notes""; ""Chapter 2: Restating Indigenous Presence in Eastern Dakota and Ho Chunk (Winnebago) Portraits of the 1830-1860's""; ""Notes""; ""Part II: Dismemberment and Display""; ""Chapter 3: Plaster-Cast Indians at the National Museum""; ""Notes""; ""Chapter 4: William Lanns Pipe: Reclaiming the Last?



Tasmanian Male""; ""Notes""; ""Part III: Gender and Sexuality""; ""Chapter 5: Sodomy, Ambiguity, and Feminization: Homosexual Meanings and the Male Native American Body""

""Amerindians and Deviance""""Alluring Native American Bodies""; ""Conclusions""; ""Notes""; ""Chapter 6: Devil with the Face of an Angel: Physical and Moral Descriptions of Aboriginal People by Missionary mile Petitot""; ""Acronyms""; ""Notes""; ""Part IV: Imagination and Commodification""; ""Chapter 7: Marketing Indigenous Bodies in the Fiction of Leslie Marmon Silko, Louise Erdrich, and Sherman Alexie""; ""Notes""; ""Chapter 8: Stories from the Womb Esther Belin's From the Belly of My Beauty""; ""Moving Homeward: Learning the Dine Ways""; ""My Mother Is My Story""

""Re-Entry""""Woman Mother Earth""; ""Asdze Naadleeh/Changing Woman""; ""Returning Home""; ""Notes""; ""Part V: Dis-ease and Healing""; ""Chapter 9: Prayer with Pain: Ceremonial Suffering among the Mikmaq""; ""Notes""; ""Chapter 10: Coping with Colonization: Aboriginal Diabetes on Manitoulin Island""; ""Introduction""; ""Background""; ""Aboriginal Diabetes on Manitoulin Island""; ""Methods""; ""Results""; ""Causation""; ""Coping Strategies""; ""The Problem of Alcohol""; ""Solutions for Overcoming Diabetes""; ""Conclusion""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Notes""

""Part VI: Physical Landscapes""""Chapter 11: Representing Indigenous Bodies in Epeli Hauofa and Syaman Rapongan""; ""Notes""; ""Works Cited""; ""Chapter 12: The Many Indigenous Bodies of Kai Tahu""; ""Aims and Objectives of the Sim Project (2006)""; ""Intellectual Property""; ""Management and Governance""; ""Notes""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""