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The Predicament of Identity

Alternate Title
Review Essay: The Predicament of Identity
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Liza Black
Ethnohistory, vol. 48, no. 1/2, Winter/Spring, 2001, pp. 337-350
Description
Review essay of: Weaving Ourselves into the Land: Charles Godfrey Leland, "Indians" and the Study of Native American Religions by Thomas C. Parkhill. Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian, Incorporated by Mike Gidley. Imagining Indians in the Southwest: Persistent Visions of a Primitive Past by Leah Dilworth. Wild West Shows and the Images of American Indians, 1883-1933. by L. G. Moses.
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A Preliminary Analysis of the DNA and the Diet of the Extinct Beothuk: A Systematic Approach to Ancient Human DNA

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Melanie Kuch
Darren R. Gröcke
Martin C. Knyf
M. Thomas P. Gilbert
Ban Younghusband
et al.
American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 132, no. 4, April 2007, pp. 594-604
Description
Study of two Beothuk individuals found a possible gen flow, or a common ancestral link, between Beothuck, who became extinct in the 1820s, and the current Mikmaq population. Data from one individual were also found to not support the belief that the Beothuk were of European-Native American descent.
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Preserving the Anthropological Record: a Decade of CoPAR Initiatives

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nancy J. Parezo
Don D. Fowler
Sydel Silverman
Current Anthropology, vol. 44, no. 1, February 2003, pp. 111-117
Description
Overview of the Council for Preservation of Anthropological Records (CoPAR) activities aimed at preserving a wide range of anthropological research.
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"Primitivism", Anthropology, and the Category of "Primitive Art"

E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Fred Myers
Description
Traces changes in Western attitudes toward the classification of objects and the subsequent evolution of the terminology used to refer to them. Chapter 17 from Handbook of Material Culture edited by Chris Tilley, Webb Keane, Susanne Küchler, Mike Rowlands and Patricia Spyer.
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Prince Max Meets the Mandan: The Story of How a German Prince and a Swiss Artist Saved the Cultural Heritage of the Mandan Indians

Alternate Title
Native American Symposium ; 7th, 2007
Sixty-Seven Nations and Counting: Proceedings of the Seventh Native American Symposium
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Shirley Frey
Description
Reviews the ethnological expedition of Prince Maximilian of Wied, and artist Karl Bodmer, and discusses how both men were crucial to preserving the Mandan tribe’s history, culture, and customs.
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Protestant Missionaries and Native Culture: Parallel Careers of Asher Wright and Silas T. Rand

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Thomas S. Abler
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 1, Winter, 1992, pp. 25-37
Description
Author examines the writings and compares the careers of two missionaries working to convert Indigenous peoples in North America; focuses on the missionaries’ engagement with the elders, storytellers and culture of the nations.
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