Edited By Max Carocci and
Stephanie Pratt
Palgrave Macmillan, January 2012
ISBN: 978-0-230-11505-7, ISBN10: 0-230-11505-5, 278 pages, Hardcover,
$90
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History
Native American Adoption, Captivity, and Slavery in Changing Contexts radically
rethinks the theoretical parameters through which we interpret both current and
past ideas of adoption, captivity, and slavery among Native American societies
in an interdisciplinary perspective. The book covers a period of over 800 years
of North American history, from Native American archaeological cultures to the
late nineteenth century. Individual case studies reframe concepts related to
adoption, captivity, and slavery through art, literature, archaeology, and
anthropology. In doing so, they highlight the importance of the interaction
between perceptions, representations, and lived experience associated with the
facts of slavery.
About
the Author(s)
Max Carocci
lectures on Indigenous Arts of the Americas for the program World Arts and
Artefacts, which he directs in joint collaboration with Birkbeck College's
department of History of Art and Screen Media (University of London) and the
British Museum. He has recently curated Warriors of the Plains, an exhibition
on Plains Indian arts, for the British Museum. His forthcoming monograph, The
Arts of Plains Indian Warfare (2012), expands his long-standing focus on Native
American arts from an anthropological perspective, which he has developed over
more than twenty years of research and publications about Native American
expressive cultures. He is also curator of the forthcoming exhibition on Native
American photographic collections from the Royal Anthropological Institute of
Great Britain and Ireland due to open at their London headquarters in 2012.
Stephanie Pratt is an associate professor(reader) of Art History at the
University of Plymouth. She has published a number of essays concerning the
visual representation of Native Americans in European art from the period c.
1600 to the end of the nineteenth century. Her monograph, American Indians in
British Art, 1700–1840, was published in 2005. Recently, she has focused on how
Native American cultures and arts have been represented in Western museums and
galleries and is developing a book-length study of early North American
collections of Native American ethnographica. She is principal curator for the
upcoming exhibition George Catlin's Indian Gallery: Displaying Indigenous
America in Nineteenth Century Europe, to be held at the National Portrait
Gallery, London, in 2013.
Table
of Contents
Ripe for Colonial
Exploitation: Ancient Traditions of Violence and Enmity as Preludes to the
Indian Slave Trade - Marvin D. Jeter * The Emergence of the Colonial South:
Colonial Indian Slaving and the Fall of the Pre-Contact Mississippian World and
the Emergence of a New Social Geography in the American South, 1540-1730 -
Robbie Ethridge * Southeastern Indian Polities of the Seventeenth Century:
Suggestions toward an Analytical Vocabulary - Eric E. Bowne * From Captives to
Kin: Indian Slavery and Changing Social Identities on the Louisiana Colonial
Frontier - Dayna Bowker Lee * Capturing Captivity: Visual Imaginings of the
English and Powhatan Encounter Accompanying the Virginia Narratives of John
Smith and Ralph Hamor, 1612 - 1634 - Stephanie Pratt * Strategies of
(Un)belonging: The Captivities of John Smith, Olaudah Equiano, and John Marrant
- Susan Castillo * Captive or Captivated: Rethinking Encounters in Early
Colonial America - Patrick Minges * A Christian Disposition: Religious Identity
in the Meeker Captivity Narrative - Brandi Denison * Visual Representation as a
Method of Discourse on Captivity, Focussed on Cynthia Ann Parker - Lin
Holdridge * Reflections and Refractions from the Southwest Borderlands - James
F. Brooks
[ history we very much need to learn about...so if I can obtain a copy soon, I will post a review.... Trace]
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