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Book Review
| New Perspectives on Native North America: Cultures, Histories, and Representations. By Sergei A. Kan and Pauline Turner Strong. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. xlii + 514 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $65.00, cloth; $35.00, paper.)
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Sergei Kan and Pauline Strong have edited one of the few books that can easily be incorporated into lower-level and upper-level courses focusing on methodology, theory, and indigenous peoples. Written as a tribute to Raymond Fogelson, an anthropology professor with a long history at the University of Chicago, this book contains twenty essays written by his past graduate students. The high quality of each of these essays serves as a testament to Fogelson's ability to revolutionize his students' concepts of ethnohistorical research. Throughout this compendium, the essayists adopted Fogelson's dual respect for indigenous concepts of the past and the intellectual traditions incorporated in earlier anthropological research. |
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Professors Kan and Strong organized the book into four parts covering anthropology's legacy in ethnohistorical research, theories of culture and its relationship to power, cultural aspects of historical interpretation, and lastly, the variables affecting the representation of self and community. |
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