Samuel R Cook
Biographic Data
| ID | 3617035 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samuel R Cook |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samuel R |
| FAMILY NAME | Cook |
| SIGNATURE | COOK S R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Tech |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Native Agency: Indians in the Bureau of Indian Affairs by Valerie Lambert (review)
Reviewed by: Native Agency: Indians in the Bureau of Indian Affairs by Valerie Lambert Samuel R. Cook (bio) Native Agency: Indians in the Bureau of Indian Affairs by Valerie Lambert University of Minnesota Press, 2022 FOR AMERICAN INDIANS and those familiar with Indian affairs in the United States, the mere mention of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) is bound to elicit a preconditioned negative response, even though over 95 percent of its emplo…
Not “A Nation of Immigrants”: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion. By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Traci Brynne Voyles. Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country
Words are powerful. This understanding is foundational to many Indigenous ontologies. Ironically, the evidence of that is often most clear in the language of those who take words for granted in describing (or failing to describe) Indigenous peoples and their landscapes. In Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country, Traci Brynne Voyles embraces this understanding in scrutinizing settler colonial constructions of landscapes in the …
The Activist Trajectory and Collaborative Context: Indigenous Peoples in Virginia and the Formation of an Anthropological Tradition
The Activist Trajectory and Collaborative ContextIndigenous Peoples in Virginia and the Formation of an Anthropological Tradition Samuel R. Cook (bio) “In the phrase ‘activist anthropology,’” writes Charles Hale, “activist is an adjective. To me, the word conveys an intention to modify anthropology, to transform the conventional practice in methodological terms” (2007: 105). Indeed, Hale’s name seems to have become synonymous with a growing curre…
The Nexus of Collaboration: Negotiating African American History and Public Interest in Southwest Virginia
From Boy Scout to Hired Gun: An Interview with J. Anthony Paredes
From Boy Scout to Hired Gun:An Interview with J. Anthony Paredes Samuel R. Cook, co-editor In this issue we begin a series of interviews with anthropologists who have distinguished themselves as contributors to development of and dialogue concerning collaborative anthropological endeavors. Acknowledging that collaboration is not a new idea but an ever-evolving ideal, we thought it would be fitting to launch the series by interviewing an anthropol…
Whose Blood, Sweat, and Tears”: Reclaiming African History and Collaborative Anthropology in Virginia’s New River Valley
In recent years the term collaborative has taken on powerful—if not contested—meanings in anthropology, resulting in spirited discussions concerning methodology, the production of knowledge, and ethnographic authority (e.g., Field and Fox 2007; Rappaport 2007). Perhaps the central voice in this dialogue is Luke Lassiter, who argues for an, approach to ethnography that deliberately and explicitly emphasizes collaboration [with native consultants] …
The Collaborative Power Struggle
The Collaborative Power Struggle Samuel R. Cook (bio) In the discipline of anthropology the term collaborative is a loaded one to say the least. As Field and Fox (2007) argue, ethnographic research has always required a degree of collaboration between primary researcher (the anthropologist or ethnographer) and research communities or individuals (even those once identified by the archaic distinction as "informants"). Yet while collaborative has b…
You Can't Put a Price On It: Activist Anthropology in the Mountaintop Removal Debate
You Can't Put a Price On It"Activist Anthropology in the Mountaintop Removal Debate Samuel R. Cook (bio) On a late August afternoon in 1996, I pulled off Route 52 in Mingo County, West Virginia, into the tentatively defined gravel drive in front on my great uncle's house. I had watched the small house change over the years as the modest four-room company house with only a hand pump to provide water gradually accumulated additions and luxuries. Wh…
Ghost Dances and Identity: Prophetic Religion and American Indian Ethnogenesis in the Nineteenth Century
Book Review| January 01 2007 Ghost Dances and Identity: Prophetic Religion and American Indian Ethnogenesis in the Nineteenth Century Ghost Dances and Identity: Prophetic Religion and American Indian Ethnogenesis in the Nineteenth Century, Gregory E. Smoak. Samuel R. Cook Samuel R. Cook Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2007) 26 (2): 111–113. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501813 Cite Icon C…
The Chicago guide to collaborative ethnography - By Luke Eric Lassiter
The Monacan Nation Pow Wow: Symbol of Indigenous Survival and Resistance in the Tobacco Row Mountains
This article explores the meaning of the Monacan pow wow to those who live in the host community. We contend that this pow wow constitutes a political expression for the Monacan people, a celebration of survival as indigenous people not only in a state where Indian policy took the form of "documentary genocide" (Smith, 1992), but in a county where local power brokers managed to configure a local political economy in which Indians were integrated …
Anthropological Advocacy in Historical Perspective: The Case of Anthropologists and Virginia Indians
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Samuel R. Cook; Anthropological Advocacy in Historical Perspective: The Case of Anthropologists and Virginia Indians. Human Organization 1 June 2003; 62 (2): 193–201. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.62.2.434wkq4pvh5g95he Download citation file: Ris (…
Anthropologists Acting Locally: Anthropological Advocacy among Virginia's Indian Nations
Developing an American Indian Studies Program: A View from Ground Zero
The recent publication of Native American Studies in Higher Education, edited by Duane Champagne and Jay Stauss, marks a milestone in American Indian studies (AIS). Not only does this volume commemorate the formal existence of programs focusing on this broadly (if vaguely) defined field at various academic institutions for more than thirty years; but the fact that there are so many long-standing Native/American Indian studies programs in North Am…
Introduction: What Regional Studies can Contribute to Applied Anthropology
The case studies in this issue suggest the diversity, creativity and deep historical roots of experiments in community/academic/government partnership in Appalachia. On one hand, it is important to understand these case studies as emerging from a distinctive Appalachian context. On the other hand, interesting resonances and convergences can be found with larger national and global movements. The word
A Vested Interest: Activist Anthropology in the Mountaintop Removal Debate
I want you to think about something that means so much to you—that you love so much—that you would give your life for it," said Larry Gibson as he addressed a group of students from my Appalachian Communities class visiting the remnants of his ancestral farm on Kayford Mountain, West Virginia. Most of my students had never given this question much thought. On the other hand, the majority of them (most of whom came from the urban Northeast) had ne…
Choctaws at the Crossroads: The Political Economy of Class and Culture in the Oklahoma Timber Region (review)
Sandra Faiman-Silva. Choctaws at the Crossroads: The Political Economy of Class and Culture in the Oklahoma Timber Region. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996. xxxiii + 273 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. Paper, $19.00
Culture and Conflict Resolution; Culture Variation and Conflict Resolution: Alternatives to Violence
Culture and Conflict Resolution. Kevin Avruch. Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace, 1998. 154 pp. Culture Variation and Conflict Resolution: Alternatives to Violence. Douglas P. Fry and Kaj Björkqvist. eds. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1997. 274 pp
Negotiating a Multicultural Canon: Finding the "Indian" in American Indian Law
The Encyclopedia of Native American Legal Tradition. Bruce Elliot Johansen. ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998. 410 pp.Linking Arms Together: American Indian Treaty Visions of Law and Peace, 1600-1800. Robert A. Williams Jr. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 192 pp
The Arbitrary Indian: The Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990 . Gail K. Sheffield
Ronald Reagan's Indian Policy in Retrospect: Economic Crisis and Political Irony
This article examines presidential politics during the Reagan era with regard to the formulation, implementation, and aftermath of Reagan's Indian policy. Indian affairs proved to be a formidable testing ground for the drastic administrative budget cuts that transpired in the 1980s. Although the ill‐effects of this policy were felt immediately in Indian Country, economic crisis inspired some tribes to seize control of their own political and econ…
American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World
For four hundred years-from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 1490s to the US Army's massacre of Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee in the 1890s-the indigenous inhabitants of North and South America endured an unending firestorm of violence. During that time the native population of the Western Hemisphere declined by as many as 100 million people. Indeed, as historian David E. Stannard argues in this stunning ne…
Ronald Reagan's Indian Policy in Retrospect: Economic Crisis and Political Irony
This article examines presidential politics during the Reagan era with regard to the formulation, implementation, and aftermath of Reagan's Indian policy. Indian affairs proved to be a formidable testing ground for the drastic administrative budget cuts that transpired in the 1980s. Although the ill‐effects of this policy were felt immediately in Indian Country, economic crisis inspired some tribes to seize control of their own political and econ…
The Collaborative Power Struggle
The Collaborative Power Struggle Samuel R. Cook (bio) In the discipline of anthropology the term collaborative is a loaded one to say the least. As Field and Fox (2007) argue, ethnographic research has always required a degree of collaboration between primary researcher (the anthropologist or ethnographer) and research communities or individuals (even those once identified by the archaic distinction as "informants"). Yet while collaborative has b…
You Can't Put a Price On It: Activist Anthropology in the Mountaintop Removal Debate
You Can't Put a Price On It"Activist Anthropology in the Mountaintop Removal Debate Samuel R. Cook (bio) On a late August afternoon in 1996, I pulled off Route 52 in Mingo County, West Virginia, into the tentatively defined gravel drive in front on my great uncle's house. I had watched the small house change over the years as the modest four-room company house with only a hand pump to provide water gradually accumulated additions and luxuries. Wh…
The Activist Trajectory and Collaborative Context: Indigenous Peoples in Virginia and the Formation of an Anthropological Tradition
The Activist Trajectory and Collaborative ContextIndigenous Peoples in Virginia and the Formation of an Anthropological Tradition Samuel R. Cook (bio) “In the phrase ‘activist anthropology,’” writes Charles Hale, “activist is an adjective. To me, the word conveys an intention to modify anthropology, to transform the conventional practice in methodological terms” (2007: 105). Indeed, Hale’s name seems to have become synonymous with a growing curre…
The Nexus of Collaboration: Negotiating African American History and Public Interest in Southwest Virginia
From Boy Scout to Hired Gun: An Interview with J. Anthony Paredes
From Boy Scout to Hired Gun:An Interview with J. Anthony Paredes Samuel R. Cook, co-editor In this issue we begin a series of interviews with anthropologists who have distinguished themselves as contributors to development of and dialogue concerning collaborative anthropological endeavors. Acknowledging that collaboration is not a new idea but an ever-evolving ideal, we thought it would be fitting to launch the series by interviewing an anthropol…
Culture and Conflict Resolution; Culture Variation and Conflict Resolution: Alternatives to Violence
Culture and Conflict Resolution. Kevin Avruch. Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace, 1998. 154 pp. Culture Variation and Conflict Resolution: Alternatives to Violence. Douglas P. Fry and Kaj Björkqvist. eds. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1997. 274 pp
American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World
For four hundred years-from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 1490s to the US Army's massacre of Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee in the 1890s-the indigenous inhabitants of North and South America endured an unending firestorm of violence. During that time the native population of the Western Hemisphere declined by as many as 100 million people. Indeed, as historian David E. Stannard argues in this stunning ne…
Ronald Reagan's Indian Policy in Retrospect: Economic Crisis and Political Irony
This article examines presidential politics during the Reagan era with regard to the formulation, implementation, and aftermath of Reagan's Indian policy. Indian affairs proved to be a formidable testing ground for the drastic administrative budget cuts that transpired in the 1980s. Although the ill‐effects of this policy were felt immediately in Indian Country, economic crisis inspired some tribes to seize control of their own political and econ…
The Arbitrary Indian: The Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990 . Gail K. Sheffield
Culture and Conflict Resolution; Culture Variation and Conflict Resolution: Alternatives to Violence
Culture and Conflict Resolution. Kevin Avruch. Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace, 1998. 154 pp. Culture Variation and Conflict Resolution: Alternatives to Violence. Douglas P. Fry and Kaj Björkqvist. eds. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1997. 274 pp
Negotiating a Multicultural Canon: Finding the "Indian" in American Indian Law
The Encyclopedia of Native American Legal Tradition. Bruce Elliot Johansen. ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998. 410 pp.Linking Arms Together: American Indian Treaty Visions of Law and Peace, 1600-1800. Robert A. Williams Jr. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 192 pp
Choctaws at the Crossroads: The Political Economy of Class and Culture in the Oklahoma Timber Region (review)
Sandra Faiman-Silva. Choctaws at the Crossroads: The Political Economy of Class and Culture in the Oklahoma Timber Region. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996. xxxiii + 273 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. Paper, $19.00
Introduction: What Regional Studies can Contribute to Applied Anthropology
The case studies in this issue suggest the diversity, creativity and deep historical roots of experiments in community/academic/government partnership in Appalachia. On one hand, it is important to understand these case studies as emerging from a distinctive Appalachian context. On the other hand, interesting resonances and convergences can be found with larger national and global movements. The word
A Vested Interest: Activist Anthropology in the Mountaintop Removal Debate
I want you to think about something that means so much to you—that you love so much—that you would give your life for it," said Larry Gibson as he addressed a group of students from my Appalachian Communities class visiting the remnants of his ancestral farm on Kayford Mountain, West Virginia. Most of my students had never given this question much thought. On the other hand, the majority of them (most of whom came from the urban Northeast) had ne…
Anthropological Advocacy in Historical Perspective: The Case of Anthropologists and Virginia Indians
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Samuel R. Cook; Anthropological Advocacy in Historical Perspective: The Case of Anthropologists and Virginia Indians. Human Organization 1 June 2003; 62 (2): 193–201. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.62.2.434wkq4pvh5g95he Download citation file: Ris (…
Anthropologists Acting Locally: Anthropological Advocacy among Virginia's Indian Nations
Developing an American Indian Studies Program: A View from Ground Zero
The recent publication of Native American Studies in Higher Education, edited by Duane Champagne and Jay Stauss, marks a milestone in American Indian studies (AIS). Not only does this volume commemorate the formal existence of programs focusing on this broadly (if vaguely) defined field at various academic institutions for more than thirty years; but the fact that there are so many long-standing Native/American Indian studies programs in North Am…
The Monacan Nation Pow Wow: Symbol of Indigenous Survival and Resistance in the Tobacco Row Mountains
This article explores the meaning of the Monacan pow wow to those who live in the host community. We contend that this pow wow constitutes a political expression for the Monacan people, a celebration of survival as indigenous people not only in a state where Indian policy took the form of "documentary genocide" (Smith, 1992), but in a county where local power brokers managed to configure a local political economy in which Indians were integrated …
Ghost Dances and Identity: Prophetic Religion and American Indian Ethnogenesis in the Nineteenth Century
Book Review| January 01 2007 Ghost Dances and Identity: Prophetic Religion and American Indian Ethnogenesis in the Nineteenth Century Ghost Dances and Identity: Prophetic Religion and American Indian Ethnogenesis in the Nineteenth Century, Gregory E. Smoak. Samuel R. Cook Samuel R. Cook Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2007) 26 (2): 111–113. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501813 Cite Icon C…
The Chicago guide to collaborative ethnography - By Luke Eric Lassiter
You Can't Put a Price On It: Activist Anthropology in the Mountaintop Removal Debate
You Can't Put a Price On It"Activist Anthropology in the Mountaintop Removal Debate Samuel R. Cook (bio) On a late August afternoon in 1996, I pulled off Route 52 in Mingo County, West Virginia, into the tentatively defined gravel drive in front on my great uncle's house. I had watched the small house change over the years as the modest four-room company house with only a hand pump to provide water gradually accumulated additions and luxuries. Wh…
The Collaborative Power Struggle
The Collaborative Power Struggle Samuel R. Cook (bio) In the discipline of anthropology the term collaborative is a loaded one to say the least. As Field and Fox (2007) argue, ethnographic research has always required a degree of collaboration between primary researcher (the anthropologist or ethnographer) and research communities or individuals (even those once identified by the archaic distinction as "informants"). Yet while collaborative has b…
Whose Blood, Sweat, and Tears”: Reclaiming African History and Collaborative Anthropology in Virginia’s New River Valley
In recent years the term collaborative has taken on powerful—if not contested—meanings in anthropology, resulting in spirited discussions concerning methodology, the production of knowledge, and ethnographic authority (e.g., Field and Fox 2007; Rappaport 2007). Perhaps the central voice in this dialogue is Luke Lassiter, who argues for an, approach to ethnography that deliberately and explicitly emphasizes collaboration [with native consultants] …
From Boy Scout to Hired Gun: An Interview with J. Anthony Paredes
From Boy Scout to Hired Gun:An Interview with J. Anthony Paredes Samuel R. Cook, co-editor In this issue we begin a series of interviews with anthropologists who have distinguished themselves as contributors to development of and dialogue concerning collaborative anthropological endeavors. Acknowledging that collaboration is not a new idea but an ever-evolving ideal, we thought it would be fitting to launch the series by interviewing an anthropol…
The Activist Trajectory and Collaborative Context: Indigenous Peoples in Virginia and the Formation of an Anthropological Tradition
The Activist Trajectory and Collaborative ContextIndigenous Peoples in Virginia and the Formation of an Anthropological Tradition Samuel R. Cook (bio) “In the phrase ‘activist anthropology,’” writes Charles Hale, “activist is an adjective. To me, the word conveys an intention to modify anthropology, to transform the conventional practice in methodological terms” (2007: 105). Indeed, Hale’s name seems to have become synonymous with a growing curre…
The Nexus of Collaboration: Negotiating African American History and Public Interest in Southwest Virginia
Traci Brynne Voyles. Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country
Words are powerful. This understanding is foundational to many Indigenous ontologies. Ironically, the evidence of that is often most clear in the language of those who take words for granted in describing (or failing to describe) Indigenous peoples and their landscapes. In Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country, Traci Brynne Voyles embraces this understanding in scrutinizing settler colonial constructions of landscapes in the …
Not “A Nation of Immigrants”: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion. By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Native Agency: Indians in the Bureau of Indian Affairs by Valerie Lambert (review)
Reviewed by: Native Agency: Indians in the Bureau of Indian Affairs by Valerie Lambert Samuel R. Cook (bio) Native Agency: Indians in the Bureau of Indian Affairs by Valerie Lambert University of Minnesota Press, 2022 FOR AMERICAN INDIANS and those familiar with Indian affairs in the United States, the mere mention of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) is bound to elicit a preconditioned negative response, even though over 95 percent of its emplo…
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