Grant Arndt
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 95451 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Grant Arndt |
| NOMBRES | Grant |
| APELLIDO | Arndt |
| FIRMA | ARNDT G |
| AFILIACIONES | Iowa State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8534-4205 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1998 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Stephen Kantrowitz, Citizens of a Stolen Land
Decolonization and the History of Americanist Anthropology
Joining the Ongoing Struggle
Vine Deloria's account of anthropology in Custer Died for Your Sins (Macmillan, 1969) has become a touchstone of disciplinary self-critiques, used to dismiss past anthropologists and their vision of the discipline. Yet contemporary critical histories of anthropological practice in Native North America often ignore the specificities of Deloria's complaints and erase his engagement with contemporary activist anthropologists. My article focuses on o…
The Indian's White Man
This article uses three Ho-Chunk discussions of "whiteness" (from first contact to the mid-twentieth century) to outline an approach to Indigenous knowledge that challenges approaches that depict other cultures as constituting incommensurable worlds. Arguing that the idea of ontological alterity leads to a form of ethnographic entrapment, it instead theorizes Indigenous knowledge production as a process rooted in empirical observation, moral eval…
Rediscovering Nancy Oestreich Lurie's Activist Anthropology
Voicing the Ancestors
Nancy Oestreich Lurie (1924–2017)
Ho-Chunk Powwows and the Politics of Tradition
Recording Culture
Book Review| January 01 2016 Recording Culture: Powwow Music and the Aboriginal Recording Industry on the Northern Plains Recording Culture: Powwow Music and the Aboriginal Recording Industry on the Northern Plains. By Scales, Christopher A.. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. $24.95 paper.) Grant Arndt Grant Arndt Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (1): 171–172. https://doi.org/10.1215/001418…
Settler agnosia in the field
In the late 1930s a novice fieldworker from the University of Chicago wrote in his field notes that his collaboration with a Ho-Chunk interpreter had failed because of the interpreter's "aggressions" in the struggle for "white class status." The notes exhibit a pattern of perceptual failure that I call "settler agnosia," elements of which have been noted in research on the obstacles facing Indigenous activists. The case shows that the tendency of…
Voices and Votes in the Fields of Settler Society
In 1939, Wisconsin readers of a weekly newspaper column by Mitchell Redcloud, a member of the Ho-Chunk Indian community settled within the rural township of Komensky, were greeted with a set of headlines from the imaginary 'Komensky News' about an actual local event. The headlines reported that despite opposition from local whites, Ho-Chunk people had successfully elected a Ho-Chunk candidate to the township board. This article draws on studies o…
The Emergence of Indigeneity and the Politics of Race and Culture in Native North America
In this essay, I review four recent publications on American Indian life in the United States, past and present, through the lens of indigeneity. While indigenous activism has been a central focus of recent work in anthropology and American Indian studies, Indigeneity is still emergent as a conceptual tool for historical and ethnographic work. This essay traces conceptual issues associated with more general discourses of indigeneity through the r…
Mediating indigeneity
This article examines the legacies of settler colonialism discussed in the writings of Frisk Cloud, one of four Ho-Chunk men who published Indian News columns – a relatively early project of Indigenous media activism – in local newspapers in Wisconsin during the 1930s and 1940s. The first section of the article examines the origins of Frisk Cloud's column in 1939, when he was recruited to write ‘Indian News’ for his local newspaper and thus took …
Indigenous Autobiographyen Abyme
This article shows that Crashing Thunder (1926), recognized as the first book-length American Indian autobiography published by an anthropologist, contains multiple, nested accounts of a pivotal moment in the life of its Ho-Chunk author, Sam Blowsnake: the killing of a man in 1903. Focusing on these nested accounts, the article seeks to develop an understanding of the context that led Blowsnake to include them-examples of autobiography en abyme-i…
The making and muting of an indigenous media activist
In this article, I examine an example of American Indian activism through the once-dominant mass medium of the newspaper. I focus on Ho-Chunk author Charles Round Low Cloud and his development of an "Indian News" column into a vehicle for activism against everyday forms of racial oppression in the 1930s and on the ways others involved in publishing his column used the medium to subvert his message. The analysis shows how nonindigenous actors can …
Oneida Lives
Contrary to Our Way of Thinking
When Chicago’s American Indian Center opened in 1953, it had a small core of dedicated leaders, but little support in the city. The Center’s board of directors had applied for funding to Chicago’s Metropolitan Welfare Council, the main clearinghouse of philanthropic funding in the city, only to be told that the Center’s existence was “contrary to our way of thinking.” It was not the first time that Native Americans seeking to create urban organiz…
Circuits of Culture
Over the past two decades anthropologists have directed their attention to the role of media technologies in the circulation of culture through contemporary national and transnational arenas. Jeff
The making and muting of an indigenous media activist
In this article, I examine an example of American Indian activism through the once-dominant mass medium of the newspaper. I focus on Ho-Chunk author Charles Round Low Cloud and his development of an "Indian News" column into a vehicle for activism against everyday forms of racial oppression in the 1930s and on the ways others involved in publishing his column used the medium to subvert his message. The analysis shows how nonindigenous actors can …
Settler agnosia in the field
In the late 1930s a novice fieldworker from the University of Chicago wrote in his field notes that his collaboration with a Ho-Chunk interpreter had failed because of the interpreter's "aggressions" in the struggle for "white class status." The notes exhibit a pattern of perceptual failure that I call "settler agnosia," elements of which have been noted in research on the obstacles facing Indigenous activists. The case shows that the tendency of…
Rediscovering Nancy Oestreich Lurie's Activist Anthropology
Joining the Ongoing Struggle
Vine Deloria's account of anthropology in Custer Died for Your Sins (Macmillan, 1969) has become a touchstone of disciplinary self-critiques, used to dismiss past anthropologists and their vision of the discipline. Yet contemporary critical histories of anthropological practice in Native North America often ignore the specificities of Deloria's complaints and erase his engagement with contemporary activist anthropologists. My article focuses on o…
Indigenous Autobiographyen Abyme
This article shows that Crashing Thunder (1926), recognized as the first book-length American Indian autobiography published by an anthropologist, contains multiple, nested accounts of a pivotal moment in the life of its Ho-Chunk author, Sam Blowsnake: the killing of a man in 1903. Focusing on these nested accounts, the article seeks to develop an understanding of the context that led Blowsnake to include them-examples of autobiography en abyme-i…
Voicing the Ancestors
Voices and Votes in the Fields of Settler Society
In 1939, Wisconsin readers of a weekly newspaper column by Mitchell Redcloud, a member of the Ho-Chunk Indian community settled within the rural township of Komensky, were greeted with a set of headlines from the imaginary 'Komensky News' about an actual local event. The headlines reported that despite opposition from local whites, Ho-Chunk people had successfully elected a Ho-Chunk candidate to the township board. This article draws on studies o…
Decolonization and the History of Americanist Anthropology
Contrary to Our Way of Thinking
When Chicago’s American Indian Center opened in 1953, it had a small core of dedicated leaders, but little support in the city. The Center’s board of directors had applied for funding to Chicago’s Metropolitan Welfare Council, the main clearinghouse of philanthropic funding in the city, only to be told that the Center’s existence was “contrary to our way of thinking.” It was not the first time that Native Americans seeking to create urban organiz…
Contrary to Our Way of Thinking
When Chicago’s American Indian Center opened in 1953, it had a small core of dedicated leaders, but little support in the city. The Center’s board of directors had applied for funding to Chicago’s Metropolitan Welfare Council, the main clearinghouse of philanthropic funding in the city, only to be told that the Center’s existence was “contrary to our way of thinking.” It was not the first time that Native Americans seeking to create urban organiz…
Oneida Lives
The making and muting of an indigenous media activist
In this article, I examine an example of American Indian activism through the once-dominant mass medium of the newspaper. I focus on Ho-Chunk author Charles Round Low Cloud and his development of an "Indian News" column into a vehicle for activism against everyday forms of racial oppression in the 1930s and on the ways others involved in publishing his column used the medium to subvert his message. The analysis shows how nonindigenous actors can …
Indigenous Autobiographyen Abyme
This article shows that Crashing Thunder (1926), recognized as the first book-length American Indian autobiography published by an anthropologist, contains multiple, nested accounts of a pivotal moment in the life of its Ho-Chunk author, Sam Blowsnake: the killing of a man in 1903. Focusing on these nested accounts, the article seeks to develop an understanding of the context that led Blowsnake to include them-examples of autobiography en abyme-i…
Mediating indigeneity
This article examines the legacies of settler colonialism discussed in the writings of Frisk Cloud, one of four Ho-Chunk men who published Indian News columns – a relatively early project of Indigenous media activism – in local newspapers in Wisconsin during the 1930s and 1940s. The first section of the article examines the origins of Frisk Cloud's column in 1939, when he was recruited to write ‘Indian News’ for his local newspaper and thus took …
The Emergence of Indigeneity and the Politics of Race and Culture in Native North America
In this essay, I review four recent publications on American Indian life in the United States, past and present, through the lens of indigeneity. While indigenous activism has been a central focus of recent work in anthropology and American Indian studies, Indigeneity is still emergent as a conceptual tool for historical and ethnographic work. This essay traces conceptual issues associated with more general discourses of indigeneity through the r…
Voices and Votes in the Fields of Settler Society
In 1939, Wisconsin readers of a weekly newspaper column by Mitchell Redcloud, a member of the Ho-Chunk Indian community settled within the rural township of Komensky, were greeted with a set of headlines from the imaginary 'Komensky News' about an actual local event. The headlines reported that despite opposition from local whites, Ho-Chunk people had successfully elected a Ho-Chunk candidate to the township board. This article draws on studies o…
Ho-Chunk Powwows and the Politics of Tradition
Recording Culture
Book Review| January 01 2016 Recording Culture: Powwow Music and the Aboriginal Recording Industry on the Northern Plains Recording Culture: Powwow Music and the Aboriginal Recording Industry on the Northern Plains. By Scales, Christopher A.. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. $24.95 paper.) Grant Arndt Grant Arndt Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (1): 171–172. https://doi.org/10.1215/001418…
Settler agnosia in the field
In the late 1930s a novice fieldworker from the University of Chicago wrote in his field notes that his collaboration with a Ho-Chunk interpreter had failed because of the interpreter's "aggressions" in the struggle for "white class status." The notes exhibit a pattern of perceptual failure that I call "settler agnosia," elements of which have been noted in research on the obstacles facing Indigenous activists. The case shows that the tendency of…
Nancy Oestreich Lurie (1924–2017)
Rediscovering Nancy Oestreich Lurie's Activist Anthropology
Voicing the Ancestors
The Indian's White Man
This article uses three Ho-Chunk discussions of "whiteness" (from first contact to the mid-twentieth century) to outline an approach to Indigenous knowledge that challenges approaches that depict other cultures as constituting incommensurable worlds. Arguing that the idea of ontological alterity leads to a form of ethnographic entrapment, it instead theorizes Indigenous knowledge production as a process rooted in empirical observation, moral eval…
Decolonization and the History of Americanist Anthropology
Joining the Ongoing Struggle
Vine Deloria's account of anthropology in Custer Died for Your Sins (Macmillan, 1969) has become a touchstone of disciplinary self-critiques, used to dismiss past anthropologists and their vision of the discipline. Yet contemporary critical histories of anthropological practice in Native North America often ignore the specificities of Deloria's complaints and erase his engagement with contemporary activist anthropologists. My article focuses on o…
Stephen Kantrowitz, Citizens of a Stolen Land
Circuits of Culture
Over the past two decades anthropologists have directed their attention to the role of media technologies in the circulation of culture through contemporary national and transnational arenas. Jeff
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