Native American freemasonry
Subtitle: associationalism and performance in America
By: Joy Porter
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9780803225473
Subjects: Societies; Freemasons; Indians of North America; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-319) and index.
Table of contents: title: Approaching Native American freemasonry, part one; title: Approaching Native American freemasonry, part two; title: A history of freemasonry, from Europe to the United States; title: Freemasonry as ornamentalism: class, race, and social hierarchy; title: The attractions of Freemasonry to Indias and to others, part one; title: The attractions of freemasonry to Indians and others, part two; title: Native American's Freemasons: the Revolutionary era; title: Native American Freemasons: the "settlement" of the west and the Civil War era; title: Native American Freemasons: the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; title: On television's death blow to fraternalism : understanding associationalism and the declining role of fraternalism in American life.