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| Richard White : The Roots of Dependency: Subsistence, Environment, and Social Change Among the Choctaws, Pawnees, and Navajos | |
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Richard White
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The Roots of Dependency: Subsistence, Environment, and Social Change Among the Choctaws, Pawnees, and Navajos |
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English |
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Paperback |
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433 |
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1988-08-01 |
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0803297246 |
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University of Nebraska Press |
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1.55 pounds |
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5.91 x 9.06 x 1.18 inches |
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3 Angela & Dani (USA: MD), Paul Wren (USA: AZ), Belanna (USA: KY) |
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"Richard White's study of the collapse into 'dependency' of three Native American subsistence economies represents the best kind of interdisciplinary effort. Here ideas and approaches from several fields--mainly anthropology, history, and ecology--are fruitfully combined in one inquiring mind closely focused on a related set of large, salient problems...A very sophisticated study, a 'best read' in Indian history."--American Historical Review "The book is original, enlightening, and rewarding. It points the way to a holistic manner in which tribal histories and studies of Indian-white relations should be written in the future. It can be recommended to anyone interested in Indian affairs, particularly in the question of the present-day dependency plight of the tribes."--Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., Western Historical Quarterly "The Roots of Dependency is a model study. With a provocative thesis tightly argued, it is extensively researched and well written. The nonreductionist, interdisciplinary approach provides insight heretofore beyond the range of traditional methodologies...To the historiography of the American Indian this book is an important addition."--W. David Baird, American Indian Quarterly Richard White is a professor of history at the University of Washington. He is the winner of the Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Asso-ciation, the James A. Rawley Prize presented by the Organization of Ameri-can Historians and the Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians. His books include The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815, "It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own": A History of the American West and The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River
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Angela & Dani (USA: MD) (2007/08/04):
from the American Indian Quarterly (W. David Baird):In a 1971 essay Robert Berkhofer called upon scholars to focus upon
Native Americans as historical actors rather than merely as reactors to external
stimuli. At about the same time the Newberry Library in Chicago established
its Center for the History of the American Indians where historians were
introduced to social science methodologies and interdisciplinary theoretical
constructs. With Berkhofer having identified the direction and the Newberry
providing both tools and a workshop, fellows of the Center produced and are
producing studies notable for their particular perspective, intellectual rigor,
and meticulous scholarship. Collectively this work has been of such quality
that fellows are rapidly dominating the field. At the single session on Indian
history at the recent meeting of the American Historical Association, the
chair, presentors and commentators were all Center alumni. This gathering
of scholars confirmed, at least symbolically, the presence of what might be
termed the "Newberry School of Indian History."
Richard White's The Roots of Dependency is one of the more recent publications
to appear from the "school." Few have attained its level of sophistication.
White argues that human societies have influenced the environment
and that the resultant changes have produced significant social consequences.
In other words, there is a reciprocal relationship between the environment
and the society sustained by it; alterations in one affect the other. This principle
suggests that prior to European and American contact Native American societies,
as unique cultural entities, had created subsistence patterns reflecting but
not dictated by-the environment in which they were situated. Foreign
intrusion, however, generally resulted in environmental degradation, limiting
the resources that had once supported the Indian peoples. Forced to develop
unfamiliar resources for survival, the new subsistence patterns stripped the
Native Americans of their cultural integrity and economic self-sufficiency. In
the historical process that produced change in subsistence, environmental
and social patterns, therefore, White finds the roots of dependency that plagues
contemporary American Indian societies.
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