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Online-Ressource (426 p)
ISBN:
9781479849055
Serie:
America and the Long 19th Century
Inhalt:
Ethnology and Empire tells stories about words and ideas, and ideas aboutwords that developed in concert with shifting conceptions about Native peoplesand western spaces in the nineteenth-century United States. Contextualizing theemergence of Native American linguistics as both a professionalized researchdiscipline and as popular literary concern of American culture prior to theU.S.-Mexico War, Robert Lawrence Gunn reveals the manner inwhich relays between the developing research practices of ethnology, works offiction, autobiography, travel narratives, Native oratory, and sign languagesgave
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Philologies of Race: Ethnological Linguistics and Novelistic Representation; 2. Empire, Sign Languages, and the Long Expedition, 1819-1821; 3. John Dunn Hunter, Tecumseh, and the Linguistic Politics of Pan-Indianism; 4. Connecting Borderlands: Native Networks and the Fredonian Rebellion; 5. John Russell Bartlett's Literary Borderlands: Ethnology, the U.S-Mexico War, and the United States Boundary Survey; Indian Passports; Notes; Index; About the Author
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ISBN 9781479812516
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781479842582
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Ethnology and Empire : Languages, Literature, and the Making of the North American Borderlands
Sprache:
Englisch
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