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That the People Might Live
Author | : Jace Weaver |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 1997-12-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780195344219 |
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Loyalty to the community is the highest value in Native American cultures, argues Jace Weaver. In That the People Might Live, he explores a wide range of Native American literature from 1768 to the present, taking this sense of community as both a starting point and a lens. Weaver considers some of the best known Native American writers, such as Leslie Marmon Silko, Gerald Vizenor, and Vine Deloria, as well as many others who are receiving critical attention here for the first time. He contends that the single thing that most defines these authors' writings, and makes them deserving of study as a literature separate from the national literature of the United States, is their commitment to Native community and its survival. He terms this commitment "communitism"--a fusion of "community" and "activism." The Native American authors are engaged in an ongoing quest for community and write out of a passionate commitment to it. They write, literally, "that the People might live." Drawing upon the best Native and non-Native scholarship (including the emerging postcolonial discourse), as well as a close reading of the writings themselves, Weaver adds his own provocative insights to help readers to a richer understanding of these too often neglected texts. A scholar of religion, he also sets this literature in the context of Native cultures and religious traditions, and explores the tensions between these traditions and Christianity.
That the People Might Live
Author | : Arnold Krupat |
Publsiher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2012-11-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780801465413 |
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The word "elegy" comes from the Ancient Greek elogos, meaning a mournful poem or song, in particular, a song of grief in response to loss. Because mourning and memorialization are so deeply embedded in the human condition, all human societies have developed means for lamenting the dead, and, in "That the People Might Live," Arnold Krupat surveys the traditions of Native American elegiac expression over several centuries. Krupat covers a variety of oral performances of loss and renewal, including the Condolence Rites of the Iroquois and the memorial ceremony of the Tlingit people known as koo’eex, examining as well a number of Ghost Dance songs, which have been reinterpreted in culturally specific ways by many different tribal nations. Krupat treats elegiac "farewell" speeches of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in considerable detail, and comments on retrospective autobiographies by Black Hawk and Black Elk. Among contemporary Native writers, he looks at elegiac work by Linda Hogan, N. Scott Momaday, Gerald Vizenor, Sherman Alexie, Maurice Kenny, and Ralph Salisbury, among others. Despite differences of language and culture, he finds that death and loss are consistently felt by Native peoples both personally and socially: someone who had contributed to the People’s well-being was now gone. Native American elegiac expression offered mourners consolation so that they might overcome their grief and renew their will to sustain communal life.
That the People Might Live
Author | : Jace Weaver |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : 1602566534 |
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Weaver focuses on studying Native American literature as a reflectionand shaper of community values, especially for modern urban Native Americans. For cultures so gravitized by oral tradition, the written word has become the messenger of culture and religion.
The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere
Author | : Paulette F. C. Steeves |
Publsiher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2021-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781496225368 |
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2022 Choice Outstanding Academic Title The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere is a reclaimed history of the deep past of Indigenous people in North and South America during the Paleolithic. Paulette F. C. Steeves mines evidence from archaeology sites and Paleolithic environments, landscapes, and mammalian and human migrations to make the case that people have been in the Western Hemisphere not only just prior to Clovis sites (10,200 years ago) but for more than 60,000 years, and likely more than 100,000 years. Steeves discusses the political history of American anthropology to focus on why pre-Clovis sites have been dismissed by the field for nearly a century. She explores supporting evidence from genetics and linguistic anthropology regarding First Peoples and time frames of early migrations. Additionally, she highlights the work and struggles faced by a small yet vibrant group of American and European archaeologists who have excavated and reported on numerous pre-Clovis archaeology sites. In this first book on Paleolithic archaeology of the Americas written from an Indigenous perspective, The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere includes Indigenous oral traditions, archaeological evidence, and a critical and decolonizing discussion of the development of archaeology in the Americas.
People Want to Live
Author | : Farah Ali |
Publsiher | : McSweeney's |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2021-10-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1952119294 |
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Set primarily in Pakistan, these award-winning stories follow people living on the brink of abandonment - in their personal relationships and their place in the world. A mother, coping with the sudden death of her son, uncovers long buried secrets in his absence. An anguished girl grabs a chance for a life beyond the orphanage walls where she lives and discovers the price of freedom. A young couple tries to keep their fraught relationship steady as a heat wave engulfs their city. A son returns to visit his ageing parents while beset with memories of a troubled childhood. And two thieves find themselves in a situation more precarious by the minute, and more dangerous than their original mission. Farah Ali's debut collection of thirteen stories, People Want to Live features stories of togetherness and reckless faith in the face of a world that's built to break us. Her characters mount battle with loneliness and in their fight reveal surprising vulnerabilities and an astonishing measure of hope.
The Works of Orestes A Brownson Politics
Author | : Orestes Augustus Brownson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 632 |
Release | : 1885 |
Genre | : Literature |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105013080176 |
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The unity and harmony in God s word as found in the Bible the world and man
Author | : John Coutts (of Highbury.) |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 870 |
Release | : 1881 |
Genre | : Bible |
ISBN | : OXFORD:600094654 |
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Transactions
Author | : Charles Edward Shelly |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 600 |
Release | : 1892 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : SRLF:A0007088602 |
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