Clearing a Path offers new models and ideas for exploring Native American history, drawing from disciplines like history, anthropology, and creative writing making this a must-read for anyone interested in the history of indigenous peoples.
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Writing in crystal-clear prose and refusing to submit to the obfuscations of previous scholars, she wonders how people use categories. -- Catherine A. Corman, Western Historical Quarterly
The political economy section is a standout, with a fierce and funny essay by Patricia C. Albers and a spectacular piece by Jacki Thompson Rand. Rand's analysis of women's beadwork is nothing short of brilliant. -- Catherine A. Corman, Western Historical Quarterly
Shoemaker provides a superb introduction in which she defines and defends theory. -- Catherine A. Corman, Western Historical Quarterly
Graduate students preparing for general exams or professors trying to work up new courses will find these lists invaluable. -- Catherine A. Corman, Western Historical Quarterly
Clearing a Path challenges readers to reexamine the common assumptions and seemingly self-evident truths that pervade Native American studies. . .these essays take creative approaches to questions both new and old. Clearing a Path will, without a doubt, provoke, unsettle, and inspire readers. -- Claudio Saunt, author of A New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733-1816
Clearing a Path challenges readers to reexamine the common assumptions and seemingly self-evident truths that pervade Native American studies...these essays take creative approaches to questions both new and old. Clearing a Path will, without a doubt, provoke, unsettle, and inspire readers. -- Claudio Saunt, author of A New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733-1816
This masterful four-part anthology suggests theoretical methods for opening the way to deeper understandings of Native histories... This marvelous, stimulating, multivocal, multidimensional, and multidisciplinary collection is highly recommended for upper division undergraduates and graduate students in history, anthropology, and American studies. -- CHOICE, R.A. Bucko, Creighton University
This masterful four-part anthology suggests theoretical methods for opening the way to deeper understandings of Native histories...This marvelous, stimulating, multivocal, multidimensional, and multidisciplinary collection is highly recommended for upper division undergraduates and graduate students in history, anthropology, and American studies. -- R.A. Bucko, Creighton University, for CHOICE
...the strength of Clearing a Path lies not in the answers that it provides but in the questions that it provokes...it represents an important contribution to the philosophical, intellectual, and political questions inherent in Native American studies. [The] title of CClearing a Path invokes a metaphor of diplomacy-the clearing away of obstacles to understanding and communication...to achieve a rapproachment between scholarly theory and meaningful studies of Native American history ou J.
This is a collection of imaginative, complex, and insightful discussions of how we might do Native American history better. -- Journal of American History
Historians and others who take these essays seriously will find them both stimulating and insightful. Less prescriptive than exemplary, these discussions of theory succeed in perhaps the best way by raising more questions than they seek to answer and they open new possibilities for interpretation without dictating the conclusions that Native American Studies should reach. -- Sterling Fluharty, University of Oklahoma
The political economy section is a standout, with a fierce and funny essay by Patricia C. Albers and a spectacular piece by Jacki Thompson Rand. Rand's analysis of women's beadwork is nothing short of brilliant. -- Catherine A. Corman, Western Historical Quarterly
Shoemaker provides a superb introduction in which she defines and defends theory. -- Catherine A. Corman, Western Historical Quarterly
Graduate students preparing for general exams or professors trying to work up new courses will find these lists invaluable. -- Catherine A. Corman, Western Historical Quarterly
Clearing a Path challenges readers to reexamine the common assumptions and seemingly self-evident truths that pervade Native American studies. . .these essays take creative approaches to questions both new and old. Clearing a Path will, without a doubt, provoke, unsettle, and inspire readers. -- Claudio Saunt, author of A New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733-1816
Clearing a Path challenges readers to reexamine the common assumptions and seemingly self-evident truths that pervade Native American studies...these essays take creative approaches to questions both new and old. Clearing a Path will, without a doubt, provoke, unsettle, and inspire readers. -- Claudio Saunt, author of A New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733-1816
This masterful four-part anthology suggests theoretical methods for opening the way to deeper understandings of Native histories... This marvelous, stimulating, multivocal, multidimensional, and multidisciplinary collection is highly recommended for upper division undergraduates and graduate students in history, anthropology, and American studies. -- CHOICE, R.A. Bucko, Creighton University
This masterful four-part anthology suggests theoretical methods for opening the way to deeper understandings of Native histories...This marvelous, stimulating, multivocal, multidimensional, and multidisciplinary collection is highly recommended for upper division undergraduates and graduate students in history, anthropology, and American studies. -- R.A. Bucko, Creighton University, for CHOICE
...the strength of Clearing a Path lies not in the answers that it provides but in the questions that it provokes...it represents an important contribution to the philosophical, intellectual, and political questions inherent in Native American studies. [The] title of CClearing a Path invokes a metaphor of diplomacy-the clearing away of obstacles to understanding and communication...to achieve a rapproachment between scholarly theory and meaningful studies of Native American history ou J.
This is a collection of imaginative, complex, and insightful discussions of how we might do Native American history better. -- Journal of American History
Historians and others who take these essays seriously will find them both stimulating and insightful. Less prescriptive than exemplary, these discussions of theory succeed in perhaps the best way by raising more questions than they seek to answer and they open new possibilities for interpretation without dictating the conclusions that Native American Studies should reach. -- Sterling Fluharty, University of Oklahoma
About the Author
Nancy Shoemaker, Associate Professor of History at the University of Connecticut, is the editor of Negotiators of Change: Historical Perspectives on Native American Women and the author of American Indian Population Recovery in the Twentieth Century.
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The place and meaning of stories and their contribution to how we think about the past are receiving fresh attention in humanities and human sciences (Cronon 1992; Cohen 1994; Hinchman and Hinchman 1998). Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
American Indian, New York, Native American, North America, University of Oklahoma Press, British Columbia, University of Nebraska Press, Angela Sidney, Kitty Smith, Hudson's Bay, Smithsonian Institution, University of Chicago Press, University of California Press, Home Guard Cree, Cherokee Nation, Cornell University, New World, Shamil Basayev, World War, Alaska Highway, Cambridge University Press, Chapel Hill, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Oxford University Press, Stumbling Bear New!
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- Fur Trade by Paul C. Phillips on 11 pages
- The Political Economy of North American Indians by John H. Moore on 5 pages
- Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache by Keith H. Basso on page 24, page 182, and page 201
- Native Americans by Robert J. Moore on page 127, page 129, and page 133
- Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 2: Part 1: 1927-1930 by Walter Benjamin on page 3, page 8, and page 20
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- Alanis Obomsawin: The Vision of a Native Filmmaker (American Indian Lives) by Randolph Lewis in Back Matter
- A Handbook for Social Science Field Research: Essays & Bibliographic Sources on Research Design and Methods by Ellen Perecman on page 97
- Shades of Hiawatha: Staging Indians, Making Americans, 1880-1930 by Alan Trachtenberg in Back Matter
- A Handbook for Social Science Field Research: Essays & Bibliographic Sources on Research Design and Methods by Ellen Perecman on page 97
- A Strange Likeness: Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America by Nancy Shoemaker in Back Matter
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