That the People Might Live Native American Literatures and Native American Community

Name: That the People Might Live Native American Literatures and Native American Community
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ISBN: 9780195120370

ISBN-10: 019512037X

ISBN-13: 9780195120370

Edition: 1997

Authors: Jace Weaver

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In this book Weaver looks at Native American literature in order to reflect on Native American values and spirituality. In 500 years of contact and colonization Christianity has been unable to displace traditional religious beliefs and practice, Weaver notes, and even among Indians who consider themselves Christian, traditional ways are often still important and honored. Many practise syncretism and religious dimorphism, religious pluralism that often produces communal tensions and misunderstandings that undermine the work of community organization. Weaver argues, however, that Native American literature speaks across these divisions and he offers a broad reading of several centuries of…

Book details

List price: $75.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/18/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Jace Weaver is the Franklin Professor of Native American Studies at the University of Georgia and author of Notes from a Miner's Canary: Essays on the State of Native America, among other books.



Preface



Native American Literatures and Communitism



Occom's Razor and Ridge's Masquerade (18th-19th Century)



Assimilation, Apocalypticism, and Reform (1900-1967)



Indian Literary Renaissance and the Continuing Search for Community (1968-)


Conclusion: Anger Times Imagination


Notes


Bibliography


Index