Indian Work : Language and Livelihood in Native American History / Daniel H. Usner.
Usner, Daniel H., author.
2009
E98.E2
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Title Indian Work : Language and Livelihood in Native American History / Daniel H. Usner.
Author Usner, Daniel H., author.
ISBN 9780674054745
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674054745
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]
Copyright ©2009
Language English
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Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/9780674054745 doi
Call Number E98.E2
Summary Representations of Indian economic life have played an integral role in discourses about poverty, social policy, and cultural difference but have received surprisingly little attention. Daniel Usner dismantles ideological characterizations of Indian livelihood to reveal the intricacy of economic adaptations in American Indian history.
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Frontmatter
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Introduction: The Pursuit of Livelihood and the Production of Language
1. Inventing the Hunter State
2. Narratives of Decline and Disappearance
3. The Discourse over Poverty
4. Perceptions of Authenticity and Passivity
5. Primitivism and Tourism
Conclusion
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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