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We Shall Live Again

Autor Russell Thornton Editat de Ernest Q. Campbell
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 oct 2006
This study of the 1870 and 1890 Ghost Dance movements among North American Indians offers an innovative theory about why these movements arose when they did. Emphasizing the demographic situation of American Indians prior to the movements, Professor Thornton argues that the Ghost Dances were deliberate efforts to accomplish a demographic revitalization of American Indians following their virtual collapse. By joining the movements, he contends, tribes sought to assure survival by increasing their numbers through returning the dead to life. Thornton supports this thesis empirically by closely examining the historical context of the two movements and by assessing tribal participation in them, revealing particularly how population size and decline influenced participation among and within American Indian tribes. He also considers American Indian population change after the Ghost Dance periods and shows that participation in the movements actually did lead the way to a demographic recovery for certain tribes.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780521034524
ISBN-10: 0521034523
Pagini: 112
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 6 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. The 1870 and 1890 Ghost Dance movements; 2. Prior scholarship on the Ghost Dance movements; 3. Hypothesis of demographic revitalization; 4. Depopulation and the Ghost Dance movements; 5. Ghost Dance participation and depopulation; 6. Participation and population recovery; 7. A summary, a conclusion, some implications; Technical appendixes; References; Index.

Recenzii

"...a careful, readable analysis of the demographic revitalization rationale for the 1870 and 1890 Ghost Dance movements; it makes a significant contribution to the interdisciplinary study of demographic change." Journal of Interdisciplinary History

Descriere

A study of the 1870 and 1890 Ghost Dance movements among North American Indians.