As the second largest tribe in the United States, the Navajo have often been portrayed as a singular and monolithic entity. Using her experience as a singer, lap steel player, and Navajo language learner, Jacobsen challenges this notion, showing the ways Navajos distinguish themselves from one another through musical taste, linguistic abilities, geographic location, physical appearance, degree of Navajo or Indian blood, and class affiliations. By linking cultural anthropology to ethnomusicology, linguistic anthropology, and critical Indigenous studies, Jacobsen shows how Navajo poetics and politics offer important insights into the politics of Indigeneity in Native North America, highlighting the complex ways that identities are negotiated in multiple, often contradictory, spheres.
Books in this series (12 books)
The Sound of Navajo Country: Music, Language, and Diné Belonging (Critical Indigeneities)
(February 22, 2017)As the second largest tribe in the United States, the Navajo have often been portrayed as a singular and monolithic entity. Using her experience as a singer, lap steel player, and Navajo language learner, Jacobsen challenges this notion, showing the ways Navajos distinguish themselves from one another through musical taste, linguistic abilities, geographic location, physical appearance, degree of Navajo or Indian blood, and class affiliations. By linking cultural anthropology to ethnomusicology, linguistic anthropology, and critical Indigenous studies, Jacobsen shows how Navajo poetics and politics offer important insights into the politics of Indigeneity in Native North America, highlighting the complex ways that identities are negotiated in multiple, often contradictory, spheres.
While Native Hawaiian artists, activists, scholars, and other performers have labored to educate diverse publics about the complexity of Indigenous Hawaiian identity, ongoing acts of violence against Indigenous communities have undermined these efforts. In this multidisciplinary work, Teves argues that Indigenous peoples must continue to embrace the performance of their identities in the face of this violence in order to challenge settler-colonialism and its efforts to contain and commodify Hawaiian Indigeneity.
Indigenous Cosmolectics: Kab'awil and the Making of Maya and Zapotec Literatures (Critical Indigeneities)
(September 28, 2018)Chacon recognizes that Indigenous writers draw from universal literary strategies but nevertheless argues that this literature is a vital center for reflecting on Indigenous ways of knowing and is a key artistic expression of decolonization.
Indians on the Move: Native American Mobility and Urbanization in the Twentieth Century (Critical Indigeneities)
(February 20, 2019)The dynamic histories of everyday people at the heart of this book shed new light on the adaptability of mobile Native American communities. In the end, this is a story of shared experience across tribal lines, through which Indigenous people incorporated urban life into their ideas for Indigenous futures.
Sovereign Entrepreneurs: Cherokee Small-Business Owners and the Making of Economic Sovereignty (Critical Indigeneities)
(April 10, 2019)Lewis's fieldwork followed these businesses through the Great Recession and against the backdrop of a rapidly expanding EBCI-owned casino. Lewis's keen observations reveal how Eastern Band small business owners have contributed to an economic sovereignty that empowers and sustains their nation both culturally and politically.
Reproduction on the Reservation: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Colonialism in the Long Twentieth Century (Critical Indigeneities)
(August 20, 2019)By looking deeply at one tribal nation over more than a century, Theobald offers an especially rich analysis of how Indigenous women experienced pregnancy and motherhood under evolving federal Indian policy. At the heart of this history are the Crow women who displayed creativity and fortitude in struggling for reproductive self-determination.
Incarcerated Stories: Indigenous Women Migrants and Violence in the Settler-Capitalist State (Critical Indigeneities)
(August 27, 2019)With sensitive narration and sophisticated analysis, this book reveals the human consequences of state policy and practices throughout the Americas and adds vital new context for understanding the circumstances of migrants seeking asylum in the United States.
Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions (Critical Indigeneities)
(February 8, 2021)Space-Time Colonialism: Alaska's Indigenous and Asian Entanglements (Critical Indigeneities)
(May 11, 2021)Offering an intersectional approach to U.S. empire, Indigenous dispossession, and labor exploitation, Space-Time Colonialism makes clear that Alaska is essential to understanding both U.S. imperial expansion and the machinations of settler colonialism.
Settler Memory: The Disavowal of Indigeneity and the Politics of Race in the United States (Critical Indigeneities)
(October 20, 2021)Envisioning a new political future, Bruyneel challenges readers to refuse settler memory and consider a third reconstruction that can meaningfully link antiracism and anticolonialism.
Indigenuity: Native Craftwork and the Art of American Literatures (Critical Indigeneities)
(October 6, 2022)In this innovative work at the intersection of Indigenous studies, literary studies, book history, and material culture studies, Caroline Wigginton tells a story of the interweavings of Native craftwork and American literatures from their ancient roots to the present. Focused primarily on North America, especially the colonized lands and waters now claimed by the United States, this book argues for the foundational but often-hidden aesthetic orientation of American literary history toward Native craftwork. Wigginton knits this narrative to another of Indigenous aesthetic repatriation through the making and using of books and works of material expression. Ultimately, she reveals that Native craftwork is by turns the warp and weft of American literature, interwoven throughout its long history.
What Side Are You On?: A Tohono O'odham Life across Borders (Critical Indigeneities)
(April 23, 2024)This richly textured and collaboratively written memoir brings Wilson's experiences to life. Joining Wilson as coauthor, Jose Antonio Lucero adds political and historical context to Wilson's personal narrative. Together they offer a highly original portrait of an O'odham life across borders that sheds light on the struggles and resilience of Native peoples across the Americas.
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Learn more how customers reviews work on AmazonCourtney Lewis is an Associate Professor at Duke University. Her disciplines and fields are: anthropology, economics, American Indian studies, and Southern studies. Her research focuses on issues of economic justice for American Indians and Native Nations. She is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation.
She earned her PhD at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in the Department of Anthropology. This followed two degrees in economics (B.A. University of Michigan, M.A. Wayne State University) and a position as the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for the Americas at Wesleyan University. She was also an Andrew W. Mellon Visiting Professor of Justice, Equality, and Community in Anthropology at Davidson College.