Contemporary Native American Cultural Issues (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Champagne, Duane

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Duane Champagne has assembled a volume of top scholarship reflecting the complexity and diversity of Native American cultural life. Introductions to each topical section provide background and integrated analyses of the issues at hand. The informative and critical studies that follow offer experiences and perspectives from a variety of Native settings. Topics include identity, gender, the powwow, mass media, health and environmental issues. This book and its companion volume, Contemporary Native American Political Issues, edited by Troy R. Johnson, are ideal teaching tools for instructors in Native American studies, ethnic studies, and anthropology, and important resources for anyone working in or with Native communities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2000
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780585201269
• Artikelnr.: 39567203

Autorenporträt

Duane Champagne is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Native Nations Law and Policy Center at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Duane Champagne, Introduction
Part 2 I. Native Identity
Chapter 3 1. D. Mihesuah, American Indian Identities: Issues of Individual
Choices and Development
Chapter 4 2. W. Churchill, The Crucible of American Indian Identity: Native
Tradition versus Colonial Imposition in Postconquest North America
Part 5 II. Gender
Chapter 6 3. K.B. Chiste, Aboriginal Women and Self-Government
Chapter 7 4. B. Brant, The Good Red Road: Journeys of Homecoming in Native
Women's Writing
Chapter 8 5. B.G. Miller, Contemporary Tribal Codes and Gender Issues
Part 9 III. Contemporary Powwow
Chapter 10 6. M. Mattern, The Powwow as a Public Arena
Chapter 11 7. L.E. Lassiter, Southwestern Oklahoma, the Gourd Dance, and
"Charlie Brown"
Part 12 IV. Film and Other Media
Chapter 13 8. L.A. Whitt, Cultural Imperialism and the Marketing of Native
America
Chapter 14 9. S. Leuthold, Native Media's Communities
Chapter 15 10. L.P. Brumbaugh, Ethnical Issues for Photographers of Native
Americans
Part 16 V. Health
Chapter 17 11. P.A. May, Epidemiology of Alcohol Abuse among Native
Americans
Chapter 18 12. C.M. Pego et al., Tobacco, Culture, and Health among Native
Americans
Chapter 19 13. M.C. Mahoney and A.M. Michalek, Cancer Control Research
among American Indians and Alaska Natives
Part 20 VI. Environmental Issues
Chapter 21 14. D. Waller, Friendly Fire: When Environmentalists Dehumanize
American Indians
Chapter 22 15. J. Wolfley, Ecological Risk Assessment and Management
Chapter 23 16. R. L. Spieldoch, Uranium Is In My Body
Chapter 24 Index
Chapter 25 Acknowledgments
Chapter 26 About the Editor