The Commodification of Indian Identity
| Autor: | George Pierre Castile |
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| Rok vydání: | 1996 |
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| Zdroj: | American Anthropologist. 98:743-749 |
| ISSN: | 1548-1433 0002-7294 |
| DOI: | 10.1525/aa.1996.98.4.02a00050 |
| Popis: | Pre-Cabotian, Native North American peoples, like all peoples, had myriad ways of defining their group's membership, relying generally on kinship criteria - consanguinity and affinity - of many varied types. Like most others, they also had systems of naturalization that could confer group membership on nonkin. The Navajo, for example, took in large numbers of foreigners, creating Jemez, Zia, and Mexican clans in the process. The systems of self-definition were group specific, and there is little evidence of a any shared label of common identity that was pan-Indian, one including all of the hundreds of separate linguistic and cultural entities of North America. With the arrival of Europeans, things changed. Large territorial state had emerged and some were generating more complex heterogeneous citizenship notions. The colonialists made a market for ethnic identities, in which they have been traded as a commodity ever since. The federal government itself has taken steps to regulate the purity of the product-to guarantee the customer is getting The real McCoy |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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