Being And Becoming Indian
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Being And Becoming Indian
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Author : James A. Clifton
language : en
Publisher: Chicago : Dorsey Press
Release Date : 1989-01-01
Being And Becoming Indian written by James A. Clifton and has been published by Chicago : Dorsey Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-01-01 with Indians of North America categories.
These biographies are quite fascinating as accounts of human experience, and they are thoroughly revealing as illustrations of what it has meant to be 'Indian' in a divided and changing world. -- from Back Cover.
Being And Becoming Indigenous Archaeologists
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Author : George Nicholas
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-06-16
Being And Becoming Indigenous Archaeologists written by George Nicholas and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-16 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
What does being an archaeologist mean to Indigenous persons? How and why do some become archaeologists? What has led them down a path to what some in their communities have labeled a colonialist venture? What were are the challenges they have faced, and the motivations that have allowed them to succeed? How have they managed to balance traditional values and worldview with Western modes of inquiry? And how are their contributions broadening the scope of archaeology? Indigenous archaeologists have the often awkward role of trying to serves as spokespeople both for their home community and for the scientific community of archaeologists. This volume tells the stories—in their own words-- of 37 indigenous archaeologists from six continents, how they became archaeologists, and how their dual role affects their relationships with their community and their professional colleagues. Sponsored by the World Archaeological Congress
Becoming Indian
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Author : Pavan K Varma
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2012-04-16
Becoming Indian written by Pavan K Varma and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-16 with Literary Collections categories.
What are the consequences of Empire? Do they ever fade? In this follow-up to his bestselling book Being Indian, Pavan K. Varma takes a long hard look at our cultural psyche, sixty years after India’s political liberation from Western colonial masters. Examining modern history, contemporary events and personal experience, he demonstrates, with passion, insight and impeccable logic, why India, and other formerly subject nations, can never truly be free—and certainly not in a position to assume global leadership—unless they reclaim their cultural identity.
Cultural Communication And Intercultural Contact
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Author : Donal Carbaugh
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-11-05
Cultural Communication And Intercultural Contact written by Donal Carbaugh and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-05 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
How is cultural identity accomplished interactively? What happens when different cultural identities contact one another? This book presents a series of papers, from classic essays to original expositions, which respond to these questions. The view of communication offered here -- rather than ignoring culture, or making it a variable in an equation -- is based on cultural patterns and situated communication practices, unveiling the multiplicity of factors involved in particular times and places. The contributors to this unusual volume represent a wide range of fields. Their equally diverse offerings will serve to clarify cultural distinctiveness in some communication phenomena, and lay groundwork for the identification of cross-cultural generalities in others.
Becoming Indian
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Author : Circe Sturm
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Becoming Indian written by Circe Sturm and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Cherokee Indians categories.
... Racial shifter ... are people who have changed their racial self-identification from non-Indian to Indian on the U.S. census. Many racial shifters are people who, while looking for their roots, have recently discovered their Native American ancestry ...
An Introduction To Discourse Analysis
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Author : James Paul Gee
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-02-03
An Introduction To Discourse Analysis written by James Paul Gee and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-03 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Discourse analysis considers how language, both spoken and written, enacts social and cultural perspectives and identities. Assuming no prior knowledge of linguistics, An Introduction to Discourse Analysis examines the field and presents James Paul Gee’s unique integrated approach which incorporates both a theory of language-in-use and a method of research. An Introduction to Discourse Analysis can be used as a stand-alone textbook or ideally used in conjunction with the practical companion title How to do Discourse Analysis: A Toolkit. Together they provide the complete resource for students studying discourse analysis. Updated throughout, the fourth edition of this seminal textbook also includes two new chapters: ‘What is Discourse?’ to further understanding of the topic, as well as a new concluding section. A new companion website www.routledge.com/cw/gee features a frequently asked questions section, additional tasks to support understanding, a glossary and free access to journal articles by James Paul Gee. Clearly structured and written in a highly accessible style, An Introduction to Discourse Analysis includes perspectives from a variety of approaches and disciplines, including applied linguistics, education, psychology, anthropology and communication to help students and scholars from a range of backgrounds to formulate their own views on discourse and engage in their own discourse analysis. This is an essential textbook for all advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of discourse analysis.
Social Linguistics And Literacies
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Author : James Gee
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2007-08-23
Social Linguistics And Literacies written by James Gee and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-23 with Education categories.
This fully-updated new edition engages with topics such as orality and literacy, the history of literacy, the uses and abuses of literacy in that history, the analysis of language as cultural communication, and social theories of mind and meaning, among many other topics. It represents the most current statement of a widely discussed and used theory about how language functions in society, a theory initially developed in the first edition of the book, and developed in this new edition in tandem with analytic techniques for the study of language and literacy in context, with special reference to cross-cultural issues in communities and schools. Built around a large number of specific examples, this new edition reflects current debates across the world about education and educational reform, the nature of language and communication, and the role of sociocultural diversity in schools and society. One of the core goals of this book, from its first edition on, has been to develop a new and more widely applicable vision of applied linguistics. It will be of interest to researchers, lecturers and students in education, linguistics, or any field that deals with language, especially in social or cultural terms.
Indigenous Memory Urban Reality
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Author : Michelle R. Jacobs
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2023-01-10
Indigenous Memory Urban Reality written by Michelle R. Jacobs and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-10 with History categories.
Contemporary accounts of urban Native identity in two pan-Indian communities In the last half century, changing racial and cultural dynamics in the United States have caused an explosion in the number of people claiming to be American Indian, from just over half a million in 1960 to over three million in 2013. Additionally, seven out of ten American Indians live in or near cities, rather than in tribal communities, and that number is growing. In Indigenous Memory, Urban Reality, Michelle Jacobs examines the new reality of the American Indian urban experience. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted over two and a half years, Jacobs focuses on how some individuals are invested in reclaiming Indigenous identities whereas others are more invested in relocating their sense of self to the urban environment. These groups not only apply different meanings to indigeneity, but they also develop different strategies for asserting and maintaining Native identities in an urban space inundated with false memories and fake icons of “Indian-ness.” Jacobs shows that “Indianness” is a highly contested phenomenon among these two groups: some are accused of being "wannabes" who merely "play Indian," while others are accused of being exclusionary and "policing the boundaries of Indianness." Taken together, the interconnected stories of relocators and reclaimers expose the struggles of Indigenous and Indigenous-identified participants in urban pan-Indian communities. Indigenous Memory, Urban Reality offers a complicated portrait of who can rightfully claim and enact American Indian identities and what that tells us about how race is “made” today.
Being And Becoming
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Author : PhD Arthur Combs
language : en
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Release Date : 2006-04-28
Being And Becoming written by PhD Arthur Combs and has been published by Springer Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04-28 with Psychology categories.
Dr. Combs updates his groundbreaking Field Theory of personality. This model grows out of Carl Rogers' ideas on client-centered therapy and has long been a major influence on theories of psychotherapy and personality within the humanistic and phenomonlogical traditions. Here Dr. Combs ties field psychology to the paradigm shifts in biophysical sciences, and so provides a unifying frame of reference for all branches of psychology. His concise approach to the topic makes this book of practical interest to students, clinical psychologists and counselors, as well as academics teaching upper-level or graduate courses in personality and on therapeutic techniques.
The Metaphysics Of Becoming
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Author : Thomas Padiyath
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2014-01-31
The Metaphysics Of Becoming written by Thomas Padiyath and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-31 with Philosophy categories.
This study attempts to elucidate a possible meeting point of the traditions of Eastern and Western metaphysical thinking. In discussing Whitehead’s and Aurobindo’s views on being and becoming, it seeks the possibility of a better engagement between the East and the West in the light of the philosophical insights. It is an initiation into the Sitz im Leben of Whitehead’s philosophy and his general thought pattern. It carries a perceptive analysis to show the clear primacy of Becoming or Process in Whitehead that extends even to the Divine. It also highlights Aurobindo as a unique Indian Philosopher, who articulated Indian thought in Western categories. He was able to integrate the evolutionary theory of the West with the Indian understanding of becoming. The relationship between God and Creativity and Sachchidananda and the Supermind is studied within the context of Enlightenment and Modernity and the way of doing philosophy in the West and in the East.