Reviewed by Jace Weaver | Reviews | Journal of American Ethnic History, 28.1

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New Perspectives on Native North America: Cultures, Histories, and Representations. Edited by Sergei A. Kan and Pauline Turner Strong. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. Illustrations, photos, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $65.00 (cloth); $35.00 (paper).

This reviewer, who is far from a lone voice in the wilderness, has long argued that Native American Studies is more than any random study of North American indigenes. At minimum it requires a multidisciplinary approach that seeks to understand Native reality from an indigenous perspective. It was therefore with great anticipation that I picked up this volume, whose jacket copy promised that "the essays employ a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches" and whose Introduction states that in the anthologized essays the authors "exemplify the broad interests and interdisciplinary approach of their mentor" (p. xi). Judging the volume based on these enticing statements, the book was a disappointment. Rather than the thoroughgoing interdisciplinarity that was expected, the volume was divided, as the subtitle suggests, among anthropological and historical studies and "representation" work (which, by its nature, does not seek an internal vision but rather usually seeks to understand the outward-directed gaze toward the Other).

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