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[Review Of] Mariama Ba. So Long A Letter, Anne E. Freitas Jan 1985

[Review Of] Mariama Ba. So Long A Letter, Anne E. Freitas

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

So Long A Letter is the story of Ramatoulaye, a recently-widowed Sengalese [Senegalese] woman, as she writes to her long-time friend Aissatou. It is the articulate, often anguished narrative of a Muslim woman faced with the sudden second marriage of her husband of twenty-five years. Although polygamy is accepted by her religion and her society, Ramatoulaye feels rejected and betrayed. Yet she chooses to remain in her marriage and prepares to " share equally" her husband with her new co-wife, as dictated by Muslim law. Her husband, however, abandons her completely, to manage their twelve children alone. Upon his death …

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[Review Of] R. H. Barnes. Two Crows Denies It: A History Of Controversy In Omaha Sociology, David M. Gradwohl Jan 1985

[Review Of] R. H. Barnes. Two Crows Denies It: A History Of Controversy In Omaha Sociology, David M. Gradwohl

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

The subtitle of this book clearly reflects the scope of work Barnes sets out to accomplish. It also suggests that the study is aimed at a disciplinary readership consisting of anthropologists, sociologists, and some social historians more than an interdisciplinary audience reflected by the membership of the National Association for Ethnic Studies. Specialists in Plains anthropology and world-wide kinship studies will undoubtedly welcome this historical review of the Omaha tribal social system. Non-specialists can glean some insights as well.

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[Review Of] Vine Deloria, Jr., And Clifford M. Lytle. The Nations Within: The Past And Future Of American Indian Sovereignty, Lyle Koehler Jan 1985

[Review Of] Vine Deloria, Jr., And Clifford M. Lytle. The Nations Within: The Past And Future Of American Indian Sovereignty, Lyle Koehler

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The relationship between federal policy and Indian needs has been a tortured one, at best, and to illuminate the various dimensions of that relationship is a necessary, but by no means easy, task. Vine Deloria, Jr. , and Clifford M. Lytle have fortunately provided us with a creditable analysis of one aspect of the complex interaction between the concerns of U.S. Officials and those of Indian groups. The authors focus on the idea of self-government, tracing it from the paternalism of nineteenth century reservation procedures through New Deal reformism, termination, and the contemporary emergence of Indian nationalism. They differentiate nationhood …

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[Review Of] Betty Sue Cummings. Say These Names (Remember Them), Gretchen M. Bataille Jan 1985

[Review Of] Betty Sue Cummings. Say These Names (Remember Them), Gretchen M. Bataille

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The mid-nineteenth century was a time of turmoil for many American Indian tribes, but two groups stand out as vivid examples of attempts by tribes to maintain their place along the eastern seaboard: the Cherokee and the collection of peoples that historians have called the Seminole. Betty Sue Cummings has used historical facts about Seminoles to craft a novel about a Miccosukee Indian woman in Florida who stands as a representative of her people. The novel begins in 1835 and See-ho-kee, onl y a young girl at the beginning of the novel, marries Fixonechee rather than the younger Yaha Chatee …

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[Review Of] Gilbert C. Din And Abraham P. Nasatir. The Imperial Osages : Spanish-Indian Diplomacy In The Mississippi Valley, Lyle Koehler Jan 1985

[Review Of] Gilbert C. Din And Abraham P. Nasatir. The Imperial Osages : Spanish-Indian Diplomacy In The Mississippi Valley, Lyle Koehler

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In a sixty-year career Abraham P. Nasatir collected 200,000 sheets of transcripts, photostats, and notes on the Spanish regime in the upper Mississippi Valley. His colleague Gilbert C. Din is also a student of the Spanish-Indian (primarily Osage) relations on the west bank of the Mississippi before 1808. Their study, The Imperial Osages, contains an excellent description of Osage culture (including the important economic role played by women), a fine examination of the impact of U.S. policy on the Osages after the demise of Spanish rule, and a good conclusion, bibliography, and index. However, the remainder of the book consists …

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[Review Of] David M. Gradwohl And Nancy M. Osborn. Exploring Buried Buxton, Dennis Stewart Jan 1985

[Review Of] David M. Gradwohl And Nancy M. Osborn. Exploring Buried Buxton, Dennis Stewart

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Readers of Explorations In Sights and Sounds are in for a welcome surprise, especially if they have an occasion to wade through a professional monograph outside their own area of interest or expertise. Exploring Buried Buxton is a rigorous, specialized archaeological monograph that should be read by all who wish to learn of ethnic relations in the United States. It is also readable, comprehensive, interesting, and important. Moreover, Exploring Buried Buxton is significant as the record of a model academic process. As a result of the activities centering on Buxton, Iowa, over the past few years, professors have published, students …

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[Review Of] G.M.K. Kpedekpo. Essentials Of Demographic Analysis For Africa, Barbara Entwisle Jan 1985

[Review Of] G.M.K. Kpedekpo. Essentials Of Demographic Analysis For Africa, Barbara Entwisle

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Based on lecture notes used by Kpedekpo at a number of African universities, this textbook for undergraduates provides an introduction to techniques of demographic analysis. Its twelve chapters are broad in coverage and address such topics as sources of population data; rates of fertility, mortality, and population growth; age and sex standardization; life table analysis; marriage and nuptiality; internal and international migration; methods for projecting population size and structure; stable and quasi-stable population theory; and methods for coping with deficient data. Numerous tables, charts, and worked examples help to illustrate demographic principles and techniques. An index is also included.

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[Review Of] Ken Levine And Ivory Waterworth Levine. Becoming American, The Oddysey [Odyssey] Of A Refugee Family (Film Or Video), Margaret A. Laughlin Jan 1985

[Review Of] Ken Levine And Ivory Waterworth Levine. Becoming American, The Oddysey [Odyssey] Of A Refugee Family (Film Or Video), Margaret A. Laughlin

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Becoming American is an extraordinary documentary which traces the odyssey of Hang Sou and members of his extended family as they flee the highland hills of war-torn Laos, await resettlement in a refugee camp in Thailand, and eventually resettle in the United States. Sou and his family are preliterate farmers, who served as mercenaries for the CIA's "secret war" in Laos. The Sou family face months of intense culture shock and prejudice after being transported thousands of miles in physical distance from their homeland as they seek to adapt to their new urban and alien environment in Seattle. For the …

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[Review Of] Nellie Y. Mckay. Jean Toomer, Artist, Richard L. Herrnstadt Jan 1985

[Review Of] Nellie Y. Mckay. Jean Toomer, Artist, Richard L. Herrnstadt

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Nellie Y. McKay's Jean Toomer, Artist is an account of Toomer's life and work from his birth in 1894 to the publication of his long poem "Blue Meridian" in 1936. McKay's is the most complete biography of Toomer published thus far, and it also includes the most extensive analysis to date of Toomer's literary work. For the biographical material, McKay has made heavy use of the Jean Toomer Special Collection at Fisk University, especially the autobiographical manuscripts and the manuscript letters therein. A detailed scholarly investigation of Toomer has been sorely needed now that his important place in the canon …

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[Review Of] Armando Morales And Bradford W. Sheafer. Social Work: A Profession Of Many Faces, Linda M. C. Abbott Jan 1985

[Review Of] Armando Morales And Bradford W. Sheafer. Social Work: A Profession Of Many Faces, Linda M. C. Abbott

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Morales and Sheafer bring their diverse histories to this comprehensive overview of the social work profession. The result of their collaboration is a balanced presentation of a complex field, an appropriate introduction for students considering social work careers.

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[Review Of] Okot P'Bitek. Song Of Lawino And Song Of Ocol, Charlotte H. Bruner Jan 1985

[Review Of] Okot P'Bitek. Song Of Lawino And Song Of Ocol, Charlotte H. Bruner

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Heinemann's reissue of two early works by Okot p'Bitek includes Song of Lawino in Okot's own translation from the Acoli published in 1966 and his shorter companion piece, Song of Ocol, 1967, composed in English only. The volume includes an introduction and brief biography of Okot and a critical analysis of the two poems in the light of Okot's background and other works, written by George A. Heron in 1972. Heron includes a comparison between the Acoli and the English versions of Song of Lawino, and a comparison of the traditional poems inserted into the songs with some of the …

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[Review Of] Bernd Peyer, Ed. The Elders Wrote, Gretchen M. Bataille Jan 1985

[Review Of] Bernd Peyer, Ed. The Elders Wrote, Gretchen M. Bataille

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Bernd Peyer has collected a number of documents which, although available elsewhere, are not easily accessible. The twenty-three selections are arranged chronologically and are complemented by several photographs of the writers. A bibliography of materials written by American Indians between 1772 and 1938 provides additional resources for the scholar interested in reading the complete works from which many of these selections are taken. By collecting what was written during this early period by American Indians about their conditions, Peyer challenges readers to revise many stereotypes of the "savages."Most summaries and anthologies of American Indian literature ignore the writers who are …

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[Review Of] Kenneth Ramchand. The West Indian Novel And Its Background, Faythe Turner Jan 1985

[Review Of] Kenneth Ramchand. The West Indian Novel And Its Background, Faythe Turner

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Kenneth Ramchand's The West Indian Novel and Its Background is a useful guide for exploring this literature. First published in 1973 and reissued in 1983, Ramchand's book (which has a complete bibliography of West Indian writers) gives us some of the information necessary to understand the difficulties facing the offspring of British colonialism in the West Indies.

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[Review Of] Sipho Sepamla. A Ride On The Whirlwind: A Novel Of Soweto, Linda M. C. Abbott Jan 1985

[Review Of] Sipho Sepamla. A Ride On The Whirlwind: A Novel Of Soweto, Linda M. C. Abbott

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South African poet, playwright, and teacher Sipho Sepamla has in his second novel, produced a fictional but tensely revealing narrative of events surrounding the 1976 Soweto riots. Dedicated to the young heroes of the day, the novel chronicles daily life in an atmosphere of fear, suspicion, distrust and terrorism.

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[Review Of] Fred W. Voget. The Shoshoni-Crow Sun Dance, Robert Gish Jan 1985

[Review Of] Fred W. Voget. The Shoshoni-Crow Sun Dance, Robert Gish

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The University of Oklahoma Press has long led the way in publications about the American West, and more particularly about Native American experience in that sometimes limitless region. In keeping with that tradition, The Shoshoni-Crow Sun Dance is volume 170 in the University of Oklahoma Press's Civilization of the American Indian Series -- a series distinctive in its purpose if not always in its result. Professor of anthropology emeritus at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, Fred W. Voget -- as author of this comprehensive study -- adds yet another title to his list of ethnological studies about American Indians, and …

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[Review Of] Daniel Walden, Ed. Twentieth·Century American·Jewish Fiction Writers, Steward Rodnon Jan 1985

[Review Of] Daniel Walden, Ed. Twentieth·Century American·Jewish Fiction Writers, Steward Rodnon

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

During the last several years, the rapidly appearing volumes of the Dictionary of Literary Biography, particularly such specialized volumes as American Writers in Paris, 1920-1929 and American Realists and Naturalists, have become an important tool of my college library's reference section for American literature undergraduate students. Especially valuable is this new DLR for those of us who teach either a general multi-ethnic American literature or a specialized Jewish-American or Yiddish-American literature course. The fifty-one individual essays deal with all of the giants, including Bellow, Malamud, Doctorow, Mailer, Heller, and Roth as well as the much less well-known Gerald Green, Jay …

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[Review Of] Victoria Wyatt. Shapes Of Their Thoughts: Reflections Of Culture Contacts In Northwest Coast Indian Art, Charline L. Burton Jan 1985

[Review Of] Victoria Wyatt. Shapes Of Their Thoughts: Reflections Of Culture Contacts In Northwest Coast Indian Art, Charline L. Burton

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

An exhibition at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History in New Haven, Connecticut, was held from November 1983 to May 1984. The exhibit focused on 200 years of the creative responses of Northwest Coast Indian artists to interactions with explorers, fur traders, missionaries, businessmen, tourists and ethnographers from a variety of cultures.

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[Review Of] Charles V. Willie. Race, Ethnicity, And Socioeconomic Status, Kimberly S. Hee Jan 1985

[Review Of] Charles V. Willie. Race, Ethnicity, And Socioeconomic Status, Kimberly S. Hee

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The author examines the interrelations of race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status through the presentation of a collection of his writings about blacks which have been reprinted from various sources. By reprinting this collection of works, Willie seeks to gain the opportunity to take "theoretical stock" of what he has learned through his involvements as a planner, student, teacher, researcher, administrator, policy maker, consultant, and concerned citizen. His aim is to link his work with others in the field, hoping to benefit from their clarification and correction. Willie's main objective is to articulate his theoretical conceptions about the field of race …

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[Review Of] Fred Mctaggart. Wolf That I Am: In Search Of The Red Earth People, Nancy M. Osborn Jan 1985

[Review Of] Fred Mctaggart. Wolf That I Am: In Search Of The Red Earth People, Nancy M. Osborn

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Fred McTaggart's engaging narrative Wolf That I Am: In Search of the Red Earth People is as much a personalized story of self discovery as it is a discussion of surviving Mesquakie folklore. In the early 1970s, as a graduate student at the University of Iowa, McTaggart set out to gather and to analyze the folk stories told among Mesquakies, known historically to the non-Indian world as the combined Indian tribes of the Sac and Fox. Today the main body of this Native American group resides on a tribally-owned settlement (decidely [decidedly] not a government-controlled "reservation" as mentioned in the …

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[Review Of] Anya Peterson Royce. Ethnic Identity: Strategies For Diversity, Gloria Eive Jan 1985

[Review Of] Anya Peterson Royce. Ethnic Identity: Strategies For Diversity, Gloria Eive

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"... Ethnic identity requires the maintenance of sufficiently consistent behavior to enable others to place an individual or group in some given social category, thus permitting appropriate interactive behavior." With this definition by George De Vos as thesis, Anya Peterson Royce examines ethnic identity, considering it as " ... one of many identities available to people ... developed, manipulated or ignored ... " as the particular situation demands. She identifies power, perception and purpose as the fundamental criteria which determine behavior in any inter-ethnic situation. Colonialism, nationalism and mass immigration are analyzed from an historical and theoretical perspective and as …

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Explorations In Sights And Sounds Jan 1985

Explorations In Sights And Sounds

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

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Critique [Of Ethnicity And Empowerment: Implications For Psychological Training In The 1980s By Linda M.C. Abbott], Cecilia E. Dawkins Jan 1984

Critique [Of Ethnicity And Empowerment: Implications For Psychological Training In The 1980s By Linda M.C. Abbott], Cecilia E. Dawkins

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Abbott's presentation should be of critical concern for educators and practitioners who prepare others to deliver psychological services to ethnic minority clients. A strong point of the article is the description of a serious problem in many educational programs which fail to adequately prepare psychologists to work among a variety of ethnic groups. Equally significant, the author provides pragmatic recommendations and strategies for addressing the concerns which emerge from a theoretical framework.

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Critique [Of Change In American Indian World Views Illustrated By Oral Narratives And Contemporary Poetry By Silvester J. Brito], Juanita Palmerhall Jan 1984

Critique [Of Change In American Indian World Views Illustrated By Oral Narratives And Contemporary Poetry By Silvester J. Brito], Juanita Palmerhall

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

The author of "Change in American Indian World Views ..." is not only a teacher and student of poetry, but is also a poet who writes about his heritage. It is appropriate that he chose to compare traditional songs and the contemporary pleas of American Indians. A poet can be and is described as "one who is especially gifted in the perception and expression of the beautiful or lyrical." Poetry is the art or work of a poet. If we follow these views of poet and poetry, then we would have to place both of the categories of which the …

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[Review Of] Signe Hammer. Daugh Ters And Mothers: Mothers And Daughters, Linda M. C. Abbott Jan 1984

[Review Of] Signe Hammer. Daugh Ters And Mothers: Mothers And Daughters, Linda M. C. Abbott

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Poet, actress, and author ( Women: Body and Culture), Signe Hammer here attempts an exploration of the complex bonds and strains between women, their daughters, and their mothers. While it is written for a popular audience, the book's credibility is strengthened by the inclusion of scholarly chapter notes following the final chapter.

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[Review Of] John E. Farley. Majority-Minority Relations, Homer D. C. Garcia Jan 1984

[Review Of] John E. Farley. Majority-Minority Relations, Homer D. C. Garcia

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John E. Farley, who is on the faculty of Southern Illinois University (Edwardsville), says that he has written this book because he is concerned about the deteriorating status of minorities and intergroup relations in the United States. His main objective is to increase awareness of these issues among college students in race relations classes by not only describing but also analyzing and attempting to explain the problems which our society faces.

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[Review Of] Susan Schaefer Davis. Patience And Power, Women's Lives In A Moroccan Village, Edith Blicksilver Jan 1984

[Review Of] Susan Schaefer Davis. Patience And Power, Women's Lives In A Moroccan Village, Edith Blicksilver

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For most Americans, Morocco calls to mind nomadic Berber horsemen, sinister spies in dimly-lit Casbah cafes, the armed intervention of marines in 1801 to subdue marauding pirates. Certainly, except for exotic stereotypical cabaret singers, Moroccan women have played no role in the Hollywood versions of what village life is like in this small, mountainous North African country whose history was shaped by such diverse groups as Arabs, Moors, Frenchmen and Spaniards. Anthropologist Susan Schaefer Davis at Trenton State University has described women's lives in a specific Moroccan village in her skillfully constructed exploration of lifestyle experiences in a collection of …

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[Review Of] Ellen Matthews. Culture Clash, Robert Warshawsky Jan 1984

[Review Of] Ellen Matthews. Culture Clash, Robert Warshawsky

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One tragedy of war is a people uprooted-tom from their land, history, and culture to seek a haven in a foreign country. Culture Clash is such a story. Ellen Matthews describes a Vietnamese family's struggle to adapt to American culture and yet retain their autonomy and self-respect. As a freelance writer and sponsor of Quang and his family, the author is well qualified to write this unpretentious account of their mutual experience. Composed from a diary the author kept between 1975-1979, the text is a detailed subjective study of the day-to-day events and conflicts between herself and the Quang family.

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White Like Me: A Problem Or Plus, Ann Irwin Jan 1984

White Like Me: A Problem Or Plus, Ann Irwin

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

In a tiny Iowa rural community, stuck like a mud dauber's nest on the banks of the Little Sioux River, a WASP was born and brought up thinking everyone in the world was just like her. As she went on to be educated, she was told she was the product of a culturally deprived childhood. Everyone was not like her. Didn't she know people were different? Didn't she know there were minorities in the world?

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Critique [Of Change In American Indian World Views Illustrated By Oral Narratives And Contemporary Poetry By Silvester J. Brito], Margaret Bedrosian Jan 1984

Critique [Of Change In American Indian World Views Illustrated By Oral Narratives And Contemporary Poetry By Silvester J. Brito], Margaret Bedrosian

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Brito's article draws a necessary contrast between the purpose and function of American Indian chants, and the American Indian's descent into modern poetry. The latter is an idiom that can only voice anger and frustration: it symbolizes a spirit imprisoned, forced to protest through a borrowed medium because it seems to be the only one that the western mind can understand.

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Critique [Of Women, Religion, And Peace In An American Indian Ritual By Kristin Herzog], Ernest Champion Jan 1984

Critique [Of Women, Religion, And Peace In An American Indian Ritual By Kristin Herzog], Ernest Champion

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Kristin Herzog's journey into the past is a necessary journey for serious students of ethnic and American studies; she establishes the relevance and validity of oral literature which has been relegated to an inferior status by scholars in the western world. The attempt to impose an inferior status on oral literature is rather sinister when one considers the absence of a written literature has been taken to mean an absence of intellectual activity on the part of such people. Not only American Indians but also Africans have suffered a great deal because of the tendency to regard such people as …

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