Research Catalog

Title

Violence, resistance, and survival in the Americas : Native Americans and the legacy of conquest / edited by William B. Taylor and Franklin Pease G.Y.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, c1994.

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Additional Authors

• Taylor, William B.
• Pease G. Y., Franklin, 1939-1999

Description

vi, 296 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

• Despite Europeans' often violent and bloody attempts at conquest, Native Americans have survived five centuries of European occupation. This book documents the variety of roles they played in the westernization of the Americas, revealing a range of responses to European aggression from accommodation to liberation. The contributors - historians, literary scholars, sociologists, and anthropologists - present case studies of Native American resistance and survival, from sixteenth-century Spanish America, to late colonial Mexico, to postcolonial and contemporary times. The essays investigate topics such as narrative accounts of early colonization in Peru, the Seri uprisings of 1748 and 1750 in Sonora, the role of Native American women in modern society, and the Ghost Dance of 1890 and its heirs in the modern Wahpeton Dakota village of Saskatchewan.
• Several contributors invite readers to judge whether these essays merely replace old myths of defeated primitives with new ones. Exposing the ambiguities of domination and survival, this book challenges readers to recognize self-justification in representations of others.

Subject

• Indians > Government relations
• Indians > History
• Indians of North America > Government relations
• Indians > Ethnic identity

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Spanish and Andean perceptions of the other in the conquest of the Andes / Franklin Pease G.Y. -- Allegory and ethnography in Cabeza de Vaca's Naufragios and Comentarios / José Rabasa -- The art of survival in early colonial Peru / Rolena Adorno -- Colonial expansion and Indian resistance in Sonora / José Luis Mirafuentes Galván -- Cultural creativity and raiding bands in eighteenth-century northern New Spain / William L. Merrill -- Santiago's horse / William B. Taylor -- Maintaining the road of life / Alice B. Kehoe -- Change, continuity, and variation in native American societies as a response to conquest / Duane Champagne
• Definitional violence and Plains Indian reservation life / David Reed Miller -- Gender and culture / Jennie R. Joe -- Violence and resistance in the Americas / Michael Taussig

ISBN

1560982608 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^93011331^

OCLC

28333197

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library