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1 online resource (vi, 277 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Introduction: Ethnogenesis in the Americas, 1492-1992 / Jonathan D. Hill -- Ethnogenesis and ethnocide in the European occupation of Native Surinam, 1499-1681 / Neil Lancelot Whitehead -- Remnants, renegades, and runaways : Seminole ethnogenesis reconsidered / Richard A. Sattler -- Ethnogenesis in the South Plains : Jumano to Kiowa? / Nancy P. Hickerson -- Changing patterns of ethnicity in the Northeastern Plains, 1780-1870 / Patricia C. Albers -- Ethnogenesis in the Guianas and Jamaica : two maroon cases / Kenneth Bilby -- Ethnogenesis in the Northwest Amazon : an emerging regional picture / Jonathan D. Hill -- Fighting in a different way : indigenous resistance through the Alleluia religion of Guyana / Susan K. Staats -- Cimarrones, theater, and the state / David M. Guss -- The Ecuadorian Levantamiento Indígena of 1990 and the epitomizing symbol of 1992 : reflections on nationalism, ethnic-bloc formation, and racialist ideologies / Norman E. Whitten, Jr |
| Summary |
For the past five centuries, indigenous and African American communities throughout the Americas have fought to maintain and recreate enduring identities under conditions of radical change and discontinuity. The essays in this ground-breaking volume document this cultural creativity - this ethnogenesis - within and against the broader contexts of domination; the authors simultaneously encompass the entanglements of local communities in the webs of national and global power relations as well as people's unique abilities to gain control over their history and identity |
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By defining ethnogenesis as the synthesis of people's cultural and political struggles to exist as well as their historical consciousness of these struggles, History, Power, and Identity breaks out of the implicit contrast between isolated local cultures and dynamic global history. From northeastern plains of North America to Amazonia, colonial and independent states in the Americas interacted with vast multilingual and multicultural networks, resulting in the historical emergence of new ethnic identities and the disappearance of many earlier ones. The importance of African, indigenous American, and European religions, myths, and symbols as historical cornerstones in the building of new ethnic identities emerges as one of the central themes of this convincing collection |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-265) and index |
| Notes |
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Ethnic groups -- America
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Ethnicity -- America
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Ethnicity -- America
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Ethnic groups
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Ethnicity
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Etnisch bewustzijn.
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Etnische conflicten.
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Indiens -- Amérique -- Histoire.
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Mouvements sociaux -- Indiens -- Histoire.
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Indiens -- Amérique -- Identité collective.
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Ethnicité -- Amérique.
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Identite collective -- Amerique -- Histoire.
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15.85 history of America.
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Ethnogenese
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Aufsatzsammlung
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America
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Amérique -- Histoire.
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Amerika
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Hill, Jonathan David, 1954-
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| LC no. |
95052415 |
| ISBN |
158729110X |
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9781587291104 |
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