Thomas S Abler
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 101657 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Thomas S Abler |
| NOMBRES | Thomas S |
| APELLIDO | Abler |
| FIRMA | ABLER T S |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Waterloo |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 126 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1971 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Rural Indigenousness
Melissa Otis has taken on a formidable task. Most scholars who tell the stories of indigenous peoples during the past two centuries deal with reservation communities or with the social networks established by migrants to urban centers. Otis, instead, covers indigenous peoples dispersed at a low density through a large geographic area. Involved are issues of self-identity, community identity, and legal status. Among the resources she mines for thi…
Thundersticks
Many of us might recall the stereotype found in Hollywood's view of American history: the superstitious Indians frightened and awed by the noise and smoke in their first encounter with Euro-American firearms. To some degree, these stereotypes are reflected in the scholarly literature. I have always believed that soldiers going off to war would, given the choice, use only those technologies that increased the probability of a successful outcome. D…
Warrior Nations
Imperial Entanglements
Journal Article Imperial Entanglements: Iroquois Change and Persistence on the Frontiers of Empire Get access Imperial Entanglements: Iroquois Change and Persistence on the Frontiers of Empire. By Gail D. MacLeitch. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. x, 330 pp. $45.00, ISBN978-0-8122-4281-2.) Thomas S. Abler Thomas S. Abler University of Waterloo Waterloo, Canada [email protected] Search for other works by this auth…
Social Violence in the Prehispanic American Southwest . Deborah L. Nichols , Patricia L. Crown
The Far Reaches of Empire
Reviewed by: The Far Reaches of Empire: War in Nova Scotia 1710–1760 Thomas S. Abler The Far Reaches of Empire: War in Nova Scotia 1710–1760. By John Grenier. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008) This study documents the tensions and violence that marked inter-ethnic interactions in Nova Scotia in the initial half-century of British rule, or rather attempted British rule, of the region. The complexity of the politics and conflict is revea…
Brothers among Nations
Poison Arrows
Unconquered
This work presents a synthesis of Iroquois military history from the period of initial contact with Europeans to the close of the American Revolution. Daniel P. Barr has aimed at writing “a book accessible to a general readership ranging from high school to collegiate level, while also trying to provide something useful for scholars, specialists, and Iroquois enthusiasts” (p. xviii). The work relies heavily on recently published scholarship, alth…
Seneca Moieties and Hereditary Chieftainships
Scholars investigating Iroquois political institutions have focused on the Confederacy Council (or League), largely ignoring structure at the national(or tribal) level. Data from the Seneca Nation in the 1830s and 1840s, before the replacement of chiefs by an elected council, allows analysis of nonconfederacy "chiefly statuses" relative to population size,clans, and moieties. Contrary to the consensus in the literature,nonconfederacy chiefly stat…
Red Jacket
Journal Article Red Jacket: Iroquois Diplomat and Orator. By Christopher Densmore. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1999. xxvi, 166 pp. Cloth, $34.95, ISBN 0-8156-2785-8. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-8156-0548-X.) Get access Thomas S. Abler Thomas S. Abler University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 1, June 2000, Page 210, https://doi…
Iroquois Policy and Iroquois Culture
Review Article| April 01 2000 Iroquois Policy and Iroquois Culture: Two Histories and an Anthropological Ethnohistory Thomas S. Abler Thomas S. Abler Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (2): 483–491. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-47-2-483 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Thomas S. Abler; Iroquois Policy and Iroquois Culture: Two Histo…
Hinterland Warriors and Military Dress
Much of the exotic dress of the armies of Europe and elsewhere has its origins in the conditions of frontier wars fought by imperial armies. As states have expanded to control hinterlands occupied by culturally diverse peoples, the ensuing conflicts have had an impact on imperial armies and the way they have dressed. 'Hinterland warriors' have been employed by imperial governments for a multitude of reasons: they understand the tactics of enemies…
Indians in the United States and Canada
Journal Article Indians in the United States and Canada: A Comparative History. By Roger L. Nichols. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. xvii, 383 pp. $60.00, ISBN 0-8032-3341-8.) Get access Thomas S. Abler Thomas S. Abler University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 3, December 1999, Pages 1328–1329, https://doi.org/10.230…
Division and Conflict in Pre-Hispanic and Early Postcontact America Factional Competition and Political Development in the New World. Elizabeth M. Brumfiel , John W. Fox
Chainbreaker
Mohawk Baronet
William Johnson was among the most powerful and romantic figures in early American history. Beginning as an impoverished eighteenth century Irish immigrant, he became the wealthiest and most influential Indian leader on the North American continent. Married to Molly Brant, sister of the celebrated Mohawk Joseph Brant, Johnson served as a mediator in the evolving clash of the European and Native American cultures. This new edition brings back into…
Protestant Missionaries and Native Culture
T IS A CONVENTION THAT ANTHROPOLOGISTS view Christian missionaries as disruptive agents of culture change. As Nigel Barley points out, young anthropologists know all about missionaries before they've met any and [missionaries] play a large role in the demonology of the subject [anthropology], beside self-righteous administrators and exploitive colonials (1986: 28). While Stipe (1980: 166) denies anthropologists receive systematic indoctrination, …
A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison
Scalping, Torture, Cannibalism and Rape
All warfare involves rules which limit the violence in flicted upon the enemy. When combatants differ in culture, initially each side will observe its own set of rules. Conflict between Indians and Europeans in eastern North America is examined here. The Indian practice of scalping was soon adopted by Europeans. Both cultures had traditions of public torture, but Europeans never adopted the asso ciated practice of cannibalism. Rape of females was…
Violence and Sociality in Human Evolution [and Comments and Replies]
Aggregation and aggression
Foster, Mary Lecron, and Robert A. Rubinstein, eds. Peace and War: Cross‐Cultural Perspectives. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Books, 1986. vii + 369 pp. including chapter references and index. $29.95 cloth, $16.95 paper. Mann, Michael. The Sources of Social Power: Volume I: A History of Power from the Beginning to A.D. 1760. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. v + 549 pp. including chapter bibliographies and index. $59.50 cloth,…
Chainbreaker
One of the earliest memoirs by an American Indian, Chainbreaker presents the recollections of a Seneca chief, also known as Governor Blacksnake. A fighter in the American Revolution who lived more than a century, Chainbreaker told his story as an old man in the 1840s to a fellow Seneca, Benjamin Williams, who translated it and committed it to paper. Epic in scale and yet intensely personal, Chainbreaker's story provides a rare Native view of warf…
Chainbreaker
Journal Article Chainbreaker: The Revolutionary War Memoirs of Governor Blacksnake as told to Benjamin Williams and An Account of Upper Louisiana Get access Chainbreaker: The Revolutionary War Memoirs of Governor Blacksnake as told to Benjamin Williams. Edited by Abler Thomas S.. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989. xvii + 306 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index.)An Account of Upper Louisiana. By De Finiels Nicolas. Edite…
A Journey into Mohawk and Oneida Country, 1634-1635
Violence and Sociality in Human Evolution [and Comments and Replies]
Scalping, Torture, Cannibalism and Rape
All warfare involves rules which limit the violence in flicted upon the enemy. When combatants differ in culture, initially each side will observe its own set of rules. Conflict between Indians and Europeans in eastern North America is examined here. The Indian practice of scalping was soon adopted by Europeans. Both cultures had traditions of public torture, but Europeans never adopted the asso ciated practice of cannibalism. Rape of females was…
A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison
The Original Vermonters
In a thoroughly enjoyable and readable book Haviland and Power effectively shatter the myth that Indians never lived in Vermont.--Library Journal
After Columbus
Protestant Missionaries and Native Culture
T IS A CONVENTION THAT ANTHROPOLOGISTS view Christian missionaries as disruptive agents of culture change. As Nigel Barley points out, young anthropologists know all about missionaries before they've met any and [missionaries] play a large role in the demonology of the subject [anthropology], beside self-righteous administrators and exploitive colonials (1986: 28). While Stipe (1980: 166) denies anthropologists receive systematic indoctrination, …
Thundersticks
Many of us might recall the stereotype found in Hollywood's view of American history: the superstitious Indians frightened and awed by the noise and smoke in their first encounter with Euro-American firearms. To some degree, these stereotypes are reflected in the scholarly literature. I have always believed that soldiers going off to war would, given the choice, use only those technologies that increased the probability of a successful outcome. D…
Seneca Moieties and Hereditary Chieftainships
Scholars investigating Iroquois political institutions have focused on the Confederacy Council (or League), largely ignoring structure at the national(or tribal) level. Data from the Seneca Nation in the 1830s and 1840s, before the replacement of chiefs by an elected council, allows analysis of nonconfederacy "chiefly statuses" relative to population size,clans, and moieties. Contrary to the consensus in the literature,nonconfederacy chiefly stat…
Iroquois Policy and Iroquois Culture
Review Article| April 01 2000 Iroquois Policy and Iroquois Culture: Two Histories and an Anthropological Ethnohistory Thomas S. Abler Thomas S. Abler Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (2): 483–491. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-47-2-483 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Thomas S. Abler; Iroquois Policy and Iroquois Culture: Two Histo…
Chainbreaker
One of the earliest memoirs by an American Indian, Chainbreaker presents the recollections of a Seneca chief, also known as Governor Blacksnake. A fighter in the American Revolution who lived more than a century, Chainbreaker told his story as an old man in the 1840s to a fellow Seneca, Benjamin Williams, who translated it and committed it to paper. Epic in scale and yet intensely personal, Chainbreaker's story provides a rare Native view of warf…
Ethnohistory
Ethnohistory is not highly regarded within anthropology because of two factors. The first is that anthropologists do not value library research. The second, and more fundamental, factor is that ethnohistorians have largely failed to deal with problems of broad anthropological interest. Too often ethnohistorical studies deal not with culture but with chronology. The work of some ethnohistorians shows this need not to be the case. If more ethnohist…
Iroquois Cannibalism
Critique de la these de W. Arens dans The Man-Eating Myth, qui soutient qu'il est impossible, d'apres les donnees historiques, de prouver les pratiques de cannibalisme rituel des Iroquois au XVII siecle (Canada, Ontario| Etats-Unis, New York). Se basant sur les memes donnees historiques, dont les Jesuit Relations citees par W. Arens, l'A. cite plusieurs cas d'anthropophagie
Moiety Exogamy and the Seneca
The Iroquois (usually meaning the Seneca) have been described in a number of cross-cultural summaries as having exogamous moieties. However, the premier student of the Iroquois, L. H. Morgan, states only that moiety exogamy was the pattern originally and reports that at the time of his field work 'the rigor of the system was relaxed. While it can never be known what the Seneca originally practised with respect to moieties and exogamy, a census ta…
Moiety Exogamy and the Seneca
The Iroquois (usually meaning the Seneca) have been described in a number of cross-cultural summaries as having exogamous moieties. However, the premier student of the Iroquois, L. H. Morgan, states only that moiety exogamy was the pattern originally and reports that at the time of his field work 'the rigor of the system was relaxed. While it can never be known what the Seneca originally practised with respect to moieties and exogamy, a census ta…
Fighting Tuscarora
Man the Animal
A Canadian Indian Bibliography 1960-1970
A Canadian Indian Bibliography, 1960-1970
War in Ecological Perspective
Iroquois Cannibalism
Critique de la these de W. Arens dans The Man-Eating Myth, qui soutient qu'il est impossible, d'apres les donnees historiques, de prouver les pratiques de cannibalisme rituel des Iroquois au XVII siecle (Canada, Ontario| Etats-Unis, New York). Se basant sur les memes donnees historiques, dont les Jesuit Relations citees par W. Arens, l'A. cite plusieurs cas d'anthropophagie
Ethnohistory
Ethnohistory is not highly regarded within anthropology because of two factors. The first is that anthropologists do not value library research. The second, and more fundamental, factor is that ethnohistorians have largely failed to deal with problems of broad anthropological interest. Too often ethnohistorical studies deal not with culture but with chronology. The work of some ethnohistorians shows this need not to be the case. If more ethnohist…
Film for Thought
The Seneca World of Ga-no-say-yeh
The Original Vermonters
In a thoroughly enjoyable and readable book Haviland and Power effectively shatter the myth that Indians never lived in Vermont.--Library Journal
Social/Cultural Anthropology
Governor Blacksnake as a Young Man? Speculation on the Identity of Trumbull's the Young Sachem
Governor Blacksnake, the well-known Seneca chief, claimed he had his likeness produced while on journey to visit officials of the new American government in the late eighteenth century. Four hypotheses as to where, and under what circumstances, this likeness was made are discussed. A portrait of an Iroquois chief painted by John Trumbull in I792, now in the Yale University Art Gallery, is suggested as possibly being that of the young Governor Bla…
A Mythical Myth
Wampum, War and Trade Goods West of the Hudson
The Iroquois Struggle for Survival
Out of the Background
After Columbus
Iroquois Land Claims
Violence and Sociality in Human Evolution [and Comments and Replies]
Aggregation and aggression
Foster, Mary Lecron, and Robert A. Rubinstein, eds. Peace and War: Cross‐Cultural Perspectives. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Books, 1986. vii + 369 pp. including chapter references and index. $29.95 cloth, $16.95 paper. Mann, Michael. The Sources of Social Power: Volume I: A History of Power from the Beginning to A.D. 1760. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. v + 549 pp. including chapter bibliographies and index. $59.50 cloth,…
Chainbreaker
One of the earliest memoirs by an American Indian, Chainbreaker presents the recollections of a Seneca chief, also known as Governor Blacksnake. A fighter in the American Revolution who lived more than a century, Chainbreaker told his story as an old man in the 1840s to a fellow Seneca, Benjamin Williams, who translated it and committed it to paper. Epic in scale and yet intensely personal, Chainbreaker's story provides a rare Native view of warf…
Chainbreaker
Journal Article Chainbreaker: The Revolutionary War Memoirs of Governor Blacksnake as told to Benjamin Williams and An Account of Upper Louisiana Get access Chainbreaker: The Revolutionary War Memoirs of Governor Blacksnake as told to Benjamin Williams. Edited by Abler Thomas S.. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989. xvii + 306 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index.)An Account of Upper Louisiana. By De Finiels Nicolas. Edite…
A Journey into Mohawk and Oneida Country, 1634-1635
Chainbreaker
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