| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.1

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Book Review

Mirror Writing: (Re-)Constructions of Native American Identity. Ed. by Thomas Claviez and Maria Moss. (Berlin: Galda, 2000. x, 290 pp. $55.00, ISBN 3-931397-25-9.)

Mirror Writing is a collection of essays selected from those presented by scholars from the United States, Canada, Germany, and England during a conference at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies in Berlin November 26–27, 1999, and in the "Native Americans" series of lectures at the Kennedy Institute during the fall semester 1999, both held in conjunction with the opening at the Berlin Museum of Ethnology of their new collection of Native American art and artifacts on November 25, 1999. 1

In order to present a comprehensive critique of stereotypical representations of the "Indian," the essays combine perspectives from ethnography, cultural history, and literary studies and examine historical misconceptions about Native Americans from the "cruel" to the "noble" savage, from the political perspective of a "nation within a nation" to the transfigurations of a life with and in nature, and from the Western literary preference for a written rather than an oral tradition. . . .

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