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American pentimento : the invention of Indians and the pursuit of riches / Patricia Seed.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Seed, Patricia.
- Series:
- Public worlds ; v. 7.
- Public worlds ; v. 7
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of North America--Land tenure.
- Indians of North America.
- Indians--Colonization.
- Indians.
- Indians--Civil rights.
- Land tenure--Government policy--America--History.
- Land tenure.
- Right of property--America--History.
- Right of property.
- Europe--Colonies--America--Administration.
- Europe.
- America--Colonization.
- America.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (314 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An illuminating examination of colonization's ongoing cultural legacy. Patricia Seed examines how European countries, primarily England, Spain, and Portugal, differed in their colonization of the Americas, with the English appropriating land, while the Spanish and Portuguese attempted to eliminate ""barbarous"" religious behavior and used indigenous labor to take mineral resources. Seed also demonstrates how these antiquated cultural and legal vocabularies are embedded in our languages, popular cultures, and legal systems, and how they are responsible for current representations and treatment
- Contents:
- Contents; List of Maps; Preface; American Pentimento: An Introduction; 1 Owning Land by Labor, Money, and Treaty; 2 Imagining a Waste Land; or, Why Indians Vanish; 3 Gendering Native Americans: Hunters as Anglo-America's Partial Fiction; 4 Ownership of Mineral Riches and the Spanish Need for Labor; 5 Tribute and Social Humiliation: The Cost of Preserving Native Farmlands; 6 Cannibals: Iberia's Partial Truth; 7 Sustaining Political Identities: The Moral Boundary between Natives and Colonizers; 8 Indians in Portuguese America; 9 Fast Forward: The Impact of Independence on Colonial Structures
- 10 Continuities: Colonial Language and Images TodayConclusion. No Perfect World: Contemporary Aboriginal Communities' Human and Resource Rights; Appendix: On the Names of Some North American Aboriginal Peoples; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780816692613
- 0816692610
- OCLC:
- 476095041
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb06214 hdl
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