Calvin Martins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3629655 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Calvin Martins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Calvin |
| FAMILY NAME | Martins |
| SIGNATURE | MARTINS C |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The American Indian and the Problem of Culture
The American Indian and the Problem of History
The American Indian and the Problem of History
The problem of history for North American Indians is that historical consciousness has traditionally been irrelevent to them, perhaps even dangerous. Time, with its attendant experiences, realities, and knowledge, was not linear, progressive, and novel. Their vision of themselves in relation to the cosmos was very different from the anthropocentric perspective that came to dominate Western thinking. Each of the eighteen authors herein wrestles wi…
American Indian and the Problem of History
The American Indian and the Problem of History
Ecological Imperialism
Natives and Newcomers
Boreal Forest Adaptations
Keepers of the Game
Keepers of the Game
Keepers of the Game
Keepers of the Game
Keepers of the Game
Journal Article Keepers of the Game: Indian-Animal Relationships and the Fur Trade Get access Keepers of the Game: Indian-Animal Relationships and the Fur Trade. By Martin Calvin. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978. xi, 226 p. Notes, index. $10.95.) John C. Ewers John C. Ewers Smithsonian Institution Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 10, Issue 3, July 1979, P…
Keepers of the Game
The Metaphysics of Writing Indian-White History
The writing of Indian-White history is impaired because Angloamerican historians in general have not familiarized themselves with the mythic world of North American Indians. In our historiography we tend either to project our thoughtworld onto the past or to accept and perpetuate that of contemporary White commentators, and in doing so we seriously misrepresent what Indians themselves may have thought about the issue at hand. Increased attention …
Ethnohistory
Journal Article Ethnohistory: A Better Way to Write Indian History Get access Calvin Martin Calvin Martin assistant professor of history Rutgers College, New Brunswick, New Jersey. This article is an expanded version of a paper read at the 1976 convention of the Organization of American Historians held in Saint Louis, Missouri. The author wishes to express his indebtedness to Mary Young, University of Rochester; William Sturtevant, Smithsonian In…
A Bibliographical Guide to the History of Indian-White Relations in the United States
Wildlife Diseases as a Factor in the Depopulation of the North American Indian
Journal Article Wildlife Diseases as a Factor in the Depopulation of the North American Indian Get access Calvin Martin Calvin Martin assistant professor of history Rutgers University. The author expresses his indebtedness to Robert F. Kahrs and John M. King, of the New York State Veterinary College at Cornell University, for their helpful comments in the preparation of this manuscript. Appreciation is also expressed to the director and staff of …
The Four Lives of a Micmac Copper Pot
What to the seventeenth-century French was little more than a mundane article of commerce became, to the Acadian Micmac, an institution with noteworthy economic, ceremonial, spiritual, and demographic connotations. Utilizing portable kettles, Micrmac households became less inclined to camp near their immobile wooden cauldrons which now served a diminishing function as the symbolic locus of settlement. The copper kettle thus afforded these people …
The American Indian and the Problem of History
The problem of history for North American Indians is that historical consciousness has traditionally been irrelevent to them, perhaps even dangerous. Time, with its attendant experiences, realities, and knowledge, was not linear, progressive, and novel. Their vision of themselves in relation to the cosmos was very different from the anthropocentric perspective that came to dominate Western thinking. Each of the eighteen authors herein wrestles wi…
Keepers of the Game
The Four Lives of a Micmac Copper Pot
What to the seventeenth-century French was little more than a mundane article of commerce became, to the Acadian Micmac, an institution with noteworthy economic, ceremonial, spiritual, and demographic connotations. Utilizing portable kettles, Micrmac households became less inclined to camp near their immobile wooden cauldrons which now served a diminishing function as the symbolic locus of settlement. The copper kettle thus afforded these people …
The American Indian and the Problem of Culture
Natives and Newcomers
Ethnohistory
Journal Article Ethnohistory: A Better Way to Write Indian History Get access Calvin Martin Calvin Martin assistant professor of history Rutgers College, New Brunswick, New Jersey. This article is an expanded version of a paper read at the 1976 convention of the Organization of American Historians held in Saint Louis, Missouri. The author wishes to express his indebtedness to Mary Young, University of Rochester; William Sturtevant, Smithsonian In…
The Four Lives of a Micmac Copper Pot
What to the seventeenth-century French was little more than a mundane article of commerce became, to the Acadian Micmac, an institution with noteworthy economic, ceremonial, spiritual, and demographic connotations. Utilizing portable kettles, Micrmac households became less inclined to camp near their immobile wooden cauldrons which now served a diminishing function as the symbolic locus of settlement. The copper kettle thus afforded these people …
Wildlife Diseases as a Factor in the Depopulation of the North American Indian
Journal Article Wildlife Diseases as a Factor in the Depopulation of the North American Indian Get access Calvin Martin Calvin Martin assistant professor of history Rutgers University. The author expresses his indebtedness to Robert F. Kahrs and John M. King, of the New York State Veterinary College at Cornell University, for their helpful comments in the preparation of this manuscript. Appreciation is also expressed to the director and staff of …
A Bibliographical Guide to the History of Indian-White Relations in the United States
Ethnohistory
Journal Article Ethnohistory: A Better Way to Write Indian History Get access Calvin Martin Calvin Martin assistant professor of history Rutgers College, New Brunswick, New Jersey. This article is an expanded version of a paper read at the 1976 convention of the Organization of American Historians held in Saint Louis, Missouri. The author wishes to express his indebtedness to Mary Young, University of Rochester; William Sturtevant, Smithsonian In…
Keepers of the Game
Keepers of the Game
Keepers of the Game
Journal Article Keepers of the Game: Indian-Animal Relationships and the Fur Trade Get access Keepers of the Game: Indian-Animal Relationships and the Fur Trade. By Martin Calvin. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978. xi, 226 p. Notes, index. $10.95.) John C. Ewers John C. Ewers Smithsonian Institution Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 10, Issue 3, July 1979, P…
Keepers of the Game
The Metaphysics of Writing Indian-White History
The writing of Indian-White history is impaired because Angloamerican historians in general have not familiarized themselves with the mythic world of North American Indians. In our historiography we tend either to project our thoughtworld onto the past or to accept and perpetuate that of contemporary White commentators, and in doing so we seriously misrepresent what Indians themselves may have thought about the issue at hand. Increased attention …
Keepers of the Game
Keepers of the Game
Boreal Forest Adaptations
Ecological Imperialism
Natives and Newcomers
The American Indian and the Problem of History
The problem of history for North American Indians is that historical consciousness has traditionally been irrelevent to them, perhaps even dangerous. Time, with its attendant experiences, realities, and knowledge, was not linear, progressive, and novel. Their vision of themselves in relation to the cosmos was very different from the anthropocentric perspective that came to dominate Western thinking. Each of the eighteen authors herein wrestles wi…
American Indian and the Problem of History
The American Indian and the Problem of History
The American Indian and the Problem of Culture
The American Indian and the Problem of History
History (14 works) · History (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (6 works) · Fur trade (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Genealogy (5 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (5 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (5 works)