First Nations of North America - Hans Bak e.a.
Politics and Representation
KORTE INHOUD
First Nations of North America:
Politics and Representation
In the 22 essays collected in First Nations of North America: Politics and Representation native and non-native scholars and writers from Canada, Europe, and the United States explore the manifold ambiguities and pitfalls of intercultural contact between "indigenous," "native" or "aboriginal" peoples in North America and their European colonizers, from the encounters (imagined and real) of 18th and 19th century explorers and ethnographers, to the efforts of older and contemporary native artists and writers to negotiate a politics of human and artistic survival. Writing from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives - political, social and economic history; literature, theater, visual art, and photography; anthropology, media and museum studies - they explore the shifting sands of "representation" (in culture and scholarship) and its seemingly inevitable implication in "politics" This volume, then, highlights the long-lasting and ongoing struggle of nat...
Politics and Representation
In the 22 essays collected in First Nations of North America: Politics and Representation native and non-native scholars and writers from Canada, Europe, and the United States explore the manifold ambiguities and pitfalls of intercultural contact between "indigenous," "native" or "aboriginal" peoples in North America and their European colonizers, from the encounters (imagined and real) of 18th and 19th century explorers and ethnographers, to the efforts of older and contemporary native artists and writers to negotiate a politics of human and artistic survival. Writing from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives - political, social and economic history; literature, theater, visual art, and photography; anthropology, media and museum studies - they explore the shifting sands of "representation" (in culture and scholarship) and its seemingly inevitable implication in "politics" This volume, then, highlights the long-lasting and ongoing struggle of nat...
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2006Uitgever: VU UitgeverijReeks: European contributions to American studies384 paginasTaal: NederlandsGrootte: 240x165x22ISBN-10: 9053839542ISBN-13: 9789053839546Koop dit boek tweedehands
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2005, paperback, goed exemplaar, good copy [Auteur: Bak, Hans] [Taal: nl] [Uitgever: VU uitgeverij] [Jaar: 2005] [Titel: European contributions to American studies First Nations of North America]
