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Understanding Tolowa Histories James Collins

Understanding Tolowa Histories By James Collins

Understanding Tolowa Histories by James Collins


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This text develops a multi-level historical inquiry of the Native Tolowa of Northeastern California. The Tolowa were displaced and nearly destroyed in the 19th century. The author explores the linguistic and political dynamics of place-claiming and expropriation.

Understanding Tolowa Histories Summary

Understanding Tolowa Histories: Western Hegemonies and Native American Responses by James Collins

Developing a multi-leveled historical inquiry of the Native Tolowa of the US, James Collins explores the linguistic and political dynamics of place-claiming and expropriation as well as the relation between otherness and subjugation.

Understanding Tolowa Histories Reviews

An academic but nonetheless personally informed exploration of the assumptions behind the way history is recorded and recounted, examined in the context of history in general and the history of the Tolowa people specifically. -- News from Native California

About James Collins

James Collins is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Albany.

Table of Contents

1. Tolowa Histories: Inclusions and Exclusions in Making a People and a Past 2. Tolowa De-Termination: Histories after the Cataclysm, 1850-1900 3. Tolowa De-Termination: Conscripts of Western Civilization, 1910-1965 4. Rights, Place Claims, and Power: A Western Legacy 5. Changing Conditions of Place and Identity in Native North America 6. Discourse of Place and Expropriation 7. A Modern Politics of Place and Identity Conclusion: Contested Places, Divided Subjects

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NLS9780415912082
9780415912082
0415912083
Understanding Tolowa Histories: Western Hegemonies and Native American Responses by James Collins
New
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
1997-11-05
240
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