E-book
Other words : American Indian literature, law, and culture
Record details
- ISBN: 080613352X
- ISBN: 0806180706
- ISBN: 9780806180700
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Physical Description:
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1 online resource (xiv, 381 pages). - Publisher: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, ©2001.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-374) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Part one: Literature -- 1. In other's words: literature and community -- 2. Trickster among the wordies: the work of Gerald Vizenor -- 3. Venus on the half-shell? Why not? -- 4. Remnants of the first earth: a review -- 5. An Übermensch among the Apache: or, Karl May's tour of the Grand Teutons -- 6. Clowns and villains: American natives and the American musical -- 7. Innocents abroad: or, Smilla has a sense of snow, but our Kanawakes are in Egypt -- 8. Hell and highwater -- 9. Original simplicities and present complexities: Reinhold Niebuhr, ethnocentrism, and the myth of American exceptionalism -- Part two: Law -- 10. Indian presence with no Indians present: NAGPRA and its discontents -- 11. Losing my religion: native American traditions and American religious freedom -- 12. Triangulated power and the environment: tribes, the Federal government, and the states -- 13. Scaling Ríos Montt: indigenous peoples, international human rights, and the Pinochet case -- Part three: Culture -- 14. It came from outer space: of museums, meteorites, and messengers of the Gods -- 15. Native reformation in Indian country? Forging a relevant spiritual identity among Indian Christians -- 16. A biblical paradigm for native liberation -- 17. Trickster: the sacred fool -- 18. Reaching beyond language: native American eschatology and Apocalyptic Messianism -- 19. From I-Hermeneutics to We-Hermeneutics: native Americans and the post-colonial. |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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