Materials and Methods in Native American and Indigenous Studies

Completing the Turn

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4222624
AutoresAlyssa Mt Pleasant (autor de correspondencia), Alyssa Mt Pleasant Alyssa Mt Pleasant, Caroline Wigginton, Caroline Wigginton Caroline Wigginton, Kelly Wisecup, Kelly Wisecup Kelly Wisecup
Año2018
Volumen75
Número2
Páginas207
Fecha de publicación2018-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe William and Mary Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0043-5597 • E-ISSN: 1933-7698
EditorialProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5309/willmaryquar.75.2.0207
OpenAlexW2801031565
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas37

Nearly two centuries ago, Native scholars and activists published calls for histories of their people that emphasized their humanity and agency and engaged Indigenous intellectual traditions. Renewing and extending their calls, this William and Mary Quarterly and Early American Literature joint Forum challenges early American studies to embrace the materials and methods of Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS). In the Forum introduction, we note that in more recent decades the New Indian History and early Native literary studies rearticulated calls for this turn; however, our assessment of the field demonstrates that we have yet to realize fully its potential. Foregrounding Native people as enduring agents, rather than representations, and centering Native peoples' and nations' intellectual, literary, and material histories requires sustained structural shifts in our field. Scholars working to complete early American studies' turn to NAIS, including the seven authors featured in this Forum, are generating new approaches to the field's established archives, periodizations, and geographic boundaries, along with expanded understandings of evidence and genre. We conclude by anticipating consequent institutional changes, from innovations in graduate training to exchanges with NAIS scholars and a reevaluation of terms central to our field, from colonial to history and literature

Agency (philosophy · American studies · Art · Colonialism · Cultural turn · Field (mathematics · Foregrounding · Indigenous · Literature · Media studies · Native american · Native American studies · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Gender Studies · History · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Law