كتاب إلكتروني
Wielding Words Like Weapons : Selected Essays in Indigenism, 1995–2005
العنوان: | Wielding Words Like Weapons : Selected Essays in Indigenism, 1995–2005 |
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الوصف: | Wielding Words like Weapons is a collection of acclaimed American Indian Movement activist-intellectual Ward Churchill's essays in indigenism, selected from material written during the decade 1995–2005. It includes a range of formats, from sharply framed book reviews and equally pointed polemics and op-eds to more formal essays designed to reach both scholarly and popular audiences. The selection also represents the broad range of topics addressed in Churchill's scholarship, including the fallacies of archeological and anthropological orthodoxy such as the insistence of “cannibalogists” that American Indians were traditionally maneaters, Hollywood's cinematic degradations of native people, questions of American Indian identity, the historical and ongoing genocide of North America's native peoples, and the systematic distortion of the political and legal history of U.S.-Indian relations. Less typical of Churchill's oeuvre are the essays commemorating Cherokee anthropologist Robert K. Thomas and Yankton Sioux legal scholar and theologian Vine Deloria Jr. More unusual still is his profoundly personal effort to come to grips with the life and death of his late wife, Leah Renae Kelly, thereby illuminating in very human terms the grim and lasting effects of Canada's residential schools upon the country's indigenous peoples. A foreword by Seneca historian Barbara Alice Mann describes the sustained efforts by police and intelligence agencies as well as university administrators and other academic adversaries to discredit or otherwise “neutralize” both the man and his work. Also included are both the initial “stream-of-consciousness” version of Churchill's famous—or notorious—“little Eichmanns” opinion piece analyzing the causes of the attacks on 9/11, as well as the counterpart essay in which his argument was fully developed. |
المؤلفون: | Ward Churchill |
نوع المادة: | eBook. |
الموضوعات: | Indians of North America--Politics and government, Indians of North America--Social conditions, Indians of North America--Land tenure, Indian land transfers, Indians--Land tenure |
تصنيفات: | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, HISTORY / United States / General |
قاعدة البيانات: | eBook Index |
ردمك: | 9781629634517 9781629631011 9781629633114 9781629633138 |
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