Indigenous bodies
Subtitle: reviewing, relocating, reclaiming
By: edited by Jacqueline Fear-Segal and Rebecca Tillett
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Albany, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9781438448213
Subjects: Human figure in art; Indian artists; Indian philosophy; Indian art; History and criticism; American literature; Indian literature; Human body in literature; Symbolic aspects; Indian authors; Human body
Description: This interdisciplinary collection of essays, by both Natives and non-Natives, explores presentations and representations of indiegenous bodies in historial and contemporary contexts. REcent decades have seen a wealth of scholarship on the body in a wide range of disciplines. Indigenous Bodies extends this scholarship in exciting new ways, bringing together the disciplinary expertise of NAtive studies scholars from around the world. The book is particularly concerned with the Native body as a site of persistent fascination, colonial oppression, and indigenous agency, along with the endurance of these legacies within Native communities. At the core of this collection lies a dual commitment to exposing numerous and diverse disempowerments of indigenous people,s and to recognizing the many ways in which these same people retained and/or reclaimed agency. Issues of reviewing, relocating, and reclaiming bodies are examinied in the chapters, which are paired to bring to light juxtapositions and connections and further the transnational development of indigenous studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Of bodies changed to other forms I tell" : Tumblebuggery, creation stories, and songs / Carter Revard; title: Jaune quick-to-see Smith : indigenous bodies, indigenous stories in a post-Columbian world / Carolyn Kastner; title: Restating indigenous presence in Eastern Dakota and Ho Chunk (Winnebago) portraits of the 1830s-1860s / Stephanie Pratt; title: Plaster-cast Indians at the National Museum / Jacqueline Fear-Segal; title: William Lanné's pipe : reclaiming the "last" Tasmanian male / Lynette Russell; title: Sodomy, ambiguity, and feminization : homosexual meanings and the male Native American body / Max Carocci; title: Devil with the face of an angel : physical and moral descriptions of aboriginal people by missionary Émile Petitot / Murielle Nagy; title: Marketing indigenous bodies in the fiction of Leslie Marmon Silko, Louise Erdrich, and Sherman Alexie / Joanna Ziarkowska; title: Stories from the womb : Ester Belin's From the belly of my beauty / Ewelina Banka; title: Prayer with pain : ceremonial suffering among the Mi'kmaq / Suzanne Owen; title: Coping with colonization : Aboriginal diabetes on Manitoulin Island / Darrel Manitowabi and Marion Maar; title: Representing indigenous bodies in Epeli Hau'ofa and Syaman Rabongan / Hsiny Huang; title: The many indigenous bodies of Kai Tahu / Khyla Russell and Samuel Mann.