Ghost Dances and Identity : Prophetic Religion and American Indian Ethnogenesis in the Nineteenth Century /
This innovative cultural history examines wide-ranging issues of religion, politics, and identity through an analysis of the American Indian Ghost Dance movement and its significance for two little-studied tribes: the Shoshones and Bannocks. The Ghost Dance has become a metaphor for the death of Ame...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2006.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "Snakes" and "diggers" : the origins of new ethnic identities
- Shamans, prophets, and missionaries : new religion in the nineteenth century
- Treaty making and consolidation : the politics of ethnogenesis
- "Twotrails" : resistance, accommodation, and the 1870 ghost dance
- Culture wars, Indianness, and the 1890 ghost dance
- Ghost dances and American Indian identity.