Ethnology and Empire : Languages, Literature, and the Making of the North American Borderlands /

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Ethnology and Empire tells stories about words and ideas, and ideas about words that developed in concert with shifting conceptions about Native peoples and western spaces in the nineteenth-century United States. Contextualizing the emergence of Native American linguistics as both a professionalized...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gunn, Robert Lawrence (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Linguistik
Kulturkontakt
Kolonialismus
Indigenes Volk
Fremdbild
Ethnologie
Indians of North America > Languages.
Ethnology.
Borderlands.
Anthropological linguistics.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
Ethnologie > Amerique du Nord > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Regions frontalieres > Amerique du Nord > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Langues indiennes d'Amerique > Amerique du Nord.
Ethnolinguistique > Amerique du Nord > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Ethnology > North America > History > 19th century.
Borderlands > North America > History > 19th century.
Anthropological linguistics > North America > History > 19th century.
Nordamerika
United States.
North America.
États-Unis > Expansion territoriale > Aspect social.
United States > Territorial expansion > Social aspects.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Philologies of race: ethnological linguistics and novelistic representation
  • Empire, sign languages, and the long expedition, 1819-1821
  • John Dunn Hunter, Tecumseh, and the linguistic politics of Pan-Indianism
  • Connecting borderlands: Native networks and the Fredonian rebellion
  • John Russell Bartlett's literary borderlands: Ethnology, the U.S.-Mexico war, and the United States Boundary Survey
  • Indian passports.

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