Pauline Turner Strong- PhD, University of Chicago
- Professor at University of Texas at Austin
Pauline Turner Strong
- PhD, University of Chicago
- Professor at University of Texas at Austin
Currently researching Climate Justice and Problems of Scale.
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A sociocultural anthropologist working on the politics of representation, historical anthropology, feminist anthropology, informal education, higher education policy, Native American culture/history, US popular culture. Books include American Indians and the American Imaginary; Captive Selves, Captivating Others; and New Perspectives on Native North America (co-edited). Director, Program in Native American and Indigenous Studies and Professor of Anthropology at University of Texas at Austin.
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September 1990 - May 1993
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This review article addresses the following question: Given the transformed social, political, and intellectual conditions for ethnographic research among indigenous peoples in North America, what forms has such research come to take at the turn of the twenty-first century? The review considers significant trends and innovations in research sites a...
Caricatures of American Indians that would not now be tolerated if they portrayed other racial or ethnic groups are institutionalized in school, university, and professional sport teams and disseminated by local, national, and internationalmedia outlets. Drawing on Aihwa Ong’s concept of cultural citizenship and adapting Michael-Rolph Trouillot’s n...
In “Voicing the Ancestors II: Readings in Honor of George Stocking,” ed. Richard Handler,.
Research on the history of the Indian Child Welfare Act in the context of indigenous and settler adoption practices.
Cora Du Bois (1903–1991) achieved distinction in anthropology and the U.S. government—including leadership roles in the Office of Strategic Services and the State Department, a professorship at Harvard, and the presidency of the American Anthropological Association. Her contemporary, Henrietta Schmerler (1908–1931), suffered rape and murder while c...
This is the second Forum in which anthropologists give voice to a disciplinary ancestral figure of their choice. The goal is to bring to our attention the wisdom of anthropologists who were prominent at one time in the history of our discipline but whose work has fallen out of fashion or perhaps simply been buried beneath the accumulated scholarly...
Theory is a distillation that makes the inevitable trial and error of teaching and learning count for lessons to be passed on. We learned this from working on engaged humanities projects, and also from reading Frederich Schiller, John Dewey, and others who share a fascination with doing as a trigger for feeling and thinking. The sometimes humble pr...
This article considers the controversy over the Washington Redskins through the theory of cultural citizenship. There are strong continuities between racist symbolism on the sports field and the existential threats that some Native Americans face. People who are habitually caricatured in public arenas suffer a form of marginalization from the publi...
An film analysis, part of a volume of analyses on Native American representations in film.
Appearing at a time when indigenous peoples worldwide are asserting the right to represent themselves, American Indians and the American Imaginary offers an ethnographic and historical perspective on the power of representations of Native Americans in American public culture. The book’s wide-ranging case studies move from colonial captivity narrati...
Chapter DOI:https://doi.org/10.4135/9781446201077.n30
The social, political, and intellectual conditions for ethnographic research among Indigenous Peoples in North America have changed dramatically over the last half- century. This article considers some of the most important transformations in ethnographic research and representation, including a turn to collaborative and activist research methods,...
This theoretically sophisticated volume by a specialist in Iberian literature demonstrates the value of a broadly comparative approach to imperial representation. Astutely addressing the scarcity of serious considerations of Portuguese and Spanish narratives in the voluminous English-language scholarship on captivity, Lisa Voigt connects Iberian na...
US youth organizations, several now celebrating their hundredth birthdays, have inherited a history of crafting selves through cultural appropriation. In organizations such as the YMCA, Boy Scouts of America, and Camp Fire Girls, woodcraft and wilderness sports associated with Native Americans have played a privileged role, serving to construct Ame...
Cultural Studies/Critical Methodologies. Vol. 9, no. 2 (April 2009): 197-213. This article considers three moments in the history of Camp Fire, the first American multiracial organization for girls: (1) the foundation of the organization in the 1910s through the 1930s by progressive reformers heavily influenced by ethnological scholarship on Native...
Review of Available Light: Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics. Clifford Geertz. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.
ANTHROPOLOGY AS “THE INDIAN'S IMAGE MAKER”“THE IDEOLOGICAL EQUIVALENT OF A RESERVATION”: CRITIQUES OF ETHNOGRAPHIC REPRESENTATIONTOWARD AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF REPRESENTATIONAL PRACTICES
Captivity NarrativesThe NortheastThe SoutheastThe Plains and SouthwestThe NorthwestConclusion
Essays in honor of Raymond D. Fogelson. Edited an with an introduction by Sergei A. Kan and Pauline Turner Strong.
Published in a special issue on "Indigeneity at the Crossroads of American Studies."
"Theorizing the Hybrid" is a special issue of the Journal of American Folklore that critically engages the metaphor of hybridity as it is currently employed in the analysis of narratives and discourses, genres and identities, material forms and performances. Authors in the fields of folklore, cultural anthropology, archaeology, linguistics, literar...
Addressing the origins of racism and oppression in American society, this book provides an analysis of the political, psychological and spiritual climate that made possible the imprisonment and slaughter of American Indians by the British between 1576 and 1736. It describes the capture and manipulation of fabled Indians such as Squanto (who brought...
Semiotics offers a particularly systematic and integrated approach to the relationship between representation and communication in museums—an approach that reveals some of the more subtle ways in which labels function not only as sources of information and interpretation but also as mechanisms of social inclusion or exclusion. This article introduc...
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Dismantling the intricate edifice of racism embodied in "Indian blood" is not simply a matter of exposing its essentialism and discarding its associated policies, but a more delicate and complicated task: that is, acknowledging "Indian blood" as a discourse of conquest with manifold and contradicto...
This is an essay about forms of "playing Indian" characteristic of the mid- 1990s: forms encouraged, on the one hand, by Disney's Pocahontas (1995) and its omnipresent commercial tie-ins and, on the other hand, by the nearly simulta- neously released The Indian in the Cupboard (1995) and its associated educational CD-ROM. My "situated knowledge" (H...
This essay analyzes and assesses a variety of forms in which feminist theory has been brought to bear on the ethnohistory of Christianity among Native North American women: feminist political economy; race, class, and gender as interrelated systems of inequality; the social construction of gendered selves, particularly as analyzed through personal...
Prior to the work of Lewis Henry Morgan, social theorists relied primarily upon explorers' journals for accounts of Australian Aborigines, who were presumed to be among the most primitive of human beings. The journals of explorers Dampier (1697), Cook (1773), Grey (1841), and Eyre (1845) were especially significant, affecting as well as reflecting...
