Jean M O’brien
Biographic Data
| ID | 476339 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jean M O’brien |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jean M |
| FAMILY NAME | O’brien |
| SIGNATURE | O’BRIEN J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota System |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1612-7404 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Forthtellers Not Foretellers: The Origins of a Liberal Orthodoxy about the Prophets
The insistence that the prophets of the Hebrew Bible were "forthtellers, not foretellers" is ubiquitous in academic, liberal Christian, and even secular circles. It categorically denies that the prophets of ancient Israel predicted the future and characterizes them instead as voices of social critique. This article explains the origins of the phrase, its philosophical and religious underpinnings in Protestant, Enlightenment, Romantic, "scientific…
“They are so frequently shifting their place of residence”: Land and the construction of social place of Indians in colonial Massachusetts
This chapter addresses the problem of the “vanishing Indian” by examining the ways in which the English used their own ideas about “proper” land use and ownership to displace Indians, especially in the Indian town of Natick, and to mark the place of Indians in the social order of colonial Massachusetts. English notions about the social place of Indians were not monolithic and they changed over time. Different notions about land use and ownership,…
What Does Native American and Indigenous Studies (Nais) Do
David Silverman offers a critical appraisal of two prizewinning works in Native American and Indigenous studies (NAIS), Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip's War, by Lisa Brooks, and Memory Lands: King Philip's War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast, by Christine M. DeLucia. Silverman's review treats the methodology associated with NAIS with some skepticism, offering the opportunity for a lively discussion about the merits and p…
Monumental Mobility: The Memory Work of Massasoit
Installed at Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1921 to commemorate the tercentenary of the landing of the Pilgrims, Cyrus Dallin's statue Massasoit was intended to memorialize the Pokanoket Massasoit (leader) as a welcoming diplomat and participant in the mythical first Thanksgiving. But after the statue's unveiling, Massasoit began to move and proliferate in ways one would not expect of generally stationary monuments tethered to place. The plaster mod…
Monumental Mobility: The Memory Work of Massasoit
This book is situated within the terrain of intense debate over the placement and displacement of monuments to difficult histories. Installed in Plymouth in 1921 to commemorate the Tercentenary of the landing of the Pilgrims, Cyrus Dallin's statue Massasoit was intended to memorialize the Pokanoket Massasoit (leader) 8sâmeeqan as a welcoming diplomat and participant in the mythical first Thanksgiving. But Massasoit did not remain only in Plymouth…
Tracing Settler Colonialism's Eliminatory Logic in Traces of History
Tracing Settler Colonialism's Eliminatory Logic in Traces of History Jean M. O'Brien (bio) No concept has reoriented the field of Indigenous studies recently more than the theoretical framework of settler colonialism. And although Patrick Wolfe would be the first to insist that he did not invent it, his 2006 article, "Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native," offered a language for settler colonial studies that has been immensely in…
Presidential Address: Memory and Mobility: Grandma's Mahnomen, White Earth
In Jean M. O'Brien's 2013 American Society for Ethnohistory Presidential Address, "Memory and Mobility: Grandma's Mahnomen, White Earth," she uses reminiscences of her grandmother, Edna Wright Tonneson, to explore the coming of her family to the White Earth Ojibwe Reservation in northwestern Minnesota in the late nineteenth century. Like many others from White Earth, her family's story of reservation life involved ongoing patterns of mobility tha…
Response
"Response." International Feminist Journal of Politics, 16(3), pp. 512–513 Notes on contributorsLisa Disch is Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan where she teaches contemporary political theory with a focus on political representation, democracy and feminist theory. She is the author of Hannah Arendt and the Limits of Philosophy (Cornell, 1994), The Tyranny of the Two-Party System (Columbia, 2002) and numerous articles.Je…
Introduction: Indigeneity, Palestine, and Israel
NAIS 1:2 FALL 2014 Editors’ Introduction 105 Special Forum PerspectivesontheIsraeli–PalestinianConflict fromIndigenousStudies JEAN M. O’BRIEN AND ROBERT WARRIOR Introduction: Indigeneity, Palestine, and Israel THE ONGOING POLITICAL and military conflict between Israelis and Palestinians has, over the past year, made academic politics matters of public scrutiny in the United States and other places in ways reminiscent of the “culture wars” of the …
What Is a Monument to Massasoit Doing in Kansas City? The Memory Work of Monuments and Place in Public Displays of History
This article explores questions surrounding the memory work of monuments and place by taking up a puzzling instance of public display of history: the presence of an enormous monument to the important seventeenth-century Pokanoket leader Massasoit in Kansas City, Missouri. Given the historical location of the Pokanoket in what came to be called New England, what are we to make of the erection of this monument, in fact a replica of the Plymouth mon…
Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians out of Existence in New England
"Firsting and Lasting" published on by University of Minnesota Press.
Why Here? Scholarly Locations for American Indian Studies
This article takes up the problematic relationship between American Indian studies and American studies from the perspective of graduate training and disciplinary boundaries. It argues that while American studies potentially offers an ideal scholarly location for both graduate training and as a national organization (as it does for ethnic studies more broadly), AIS has not embraced, nor been embraced by, the discipline or the organization in ways…
The Indians' New England
Dispossession by Degrees: Indian Land and Identity in Natick, Massachusetts, 1650-1790
Journal Article Dispossession by Degrees: Indian Land and Identity in Natick, Massachusetts, 1650–1790. By Jean M. O'Brien. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xiv, 224 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-521-56172-8.) Get access Daniel K. Richter Daniel K. Richter Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 3, December 1998, Page 1054, h…
Dispossession by Degrees: Indian Land and Identity in Natick, Massachusetts, 1650–1790
According to Jean O'Brien, Indians did not simply disappear from colonial Natick, Massachusetts as the English extended their domination. Rather, the Indians creatively resisted colonialism, defended their lands, and rebuilt kin networks and community through the strategic use of English cultural practices and institutions. In the late eighteenth century, Natick Indians experienced a process of 'dispossession by degrees' that rendered them invisi…
Poems
The Production of Reality
In today's schools administrators must have an active plan for creating and maintaining a healthy, safe environment for students and staff. This book will help They teach us gives than this fifth edition of journals and to his work. This fifth edition please include your name contact information on self and his criticisms. Compelling original copyright holders featuring, a more freedom. I demolished his brush another handkerchief, and perspective…
Tracing Settler Colonialism's Eliminatory Logic in Traces of History
Tracing Settler Colonialism's Eliminatory Logic in Traces of History Jean M. O'Brien (bio) No concept has reoriented the field of Indigenous studies recently more than the theoretical framework of settler colonialism. And although Patrick Wolfe would be the first to insist that he did not invent it, his 2006 article, "Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native," offered a language for settler colonial studies that has been immensely in…
What Is a Monument to Massasoit Doing in Kansas City? The Memory Work of Monuments and Place in Public Displays of History
This article explores questions surrounding the memory work of monuments and place by taking up a puzzling instance of public display of history: the presence of an enormous monument to the important seventeenth-century Pokanoket leader Massasoit in Kansas City, Missouri. Given the historical location of the Pokanoket in what came to be called New England, what are we to make of the erection of this monument, in fact a replica of the Plymouth mon…
The Production of Reality
In today's schools administrators must have an active plan for creating and maintaining a healthy, safe environment for students and staff. This book will help They teach us gives than this fifth edition of journals and to his work. This fifth edition please include your name contact information on self and his criticisms. Compelling original copyright holders featuring, a more freedom. I demolished his brush another handkerchief, and perspective…
Poems
Dispossession by Degrees: Indian Land and Identity in Natick, Massachusetts, 1650–1790
According to Jean O'Brien, Indians did not simply disappear from colonial Natick, Massachusetts as the English extended their domination. Rather, the Indians creatively resisted colonialism, defended their lands, and rebuilt kin networks and community through the strategic use of English cultural practices and institutions. In the late eighteenth century, Natick Indians experienced a process of 'dispossession by degrees' that rendered them invisi…
Dispossession by Degrees: Indian Land and Identity in Natick, Massachusetts, 1650-1790
Journal Article Dispossession by Degrees: Indian Land and Identity in Natick, Massachusetts, 1650–1790. By Jean M. O'Brien. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xiv, 224 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-521-56172-8.) Get access Daniel K. Richter Daniel K. Richter Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 3, December 1998, Page 1054, h…
The Indians' New England
Why Here? Scholarly Locations for American Indian Studies
This article takes up the problematic relationship between American Indian studies and American studies from the perspective of graduate training and disciplinary boundaries. It argues that while American studies potentially offers an ideal scholarly location for both graduate training and as a national organization (as it does for ethnic studies more broadly), AIS has not embraced, nor been embraced by, the discipline or the organization in ways…
Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians out of Existence in New England
"Firsting and Lasting" published on by University of Minnesota Press.
Response
"Response." International Feminist Journal of Politics, 16(3), pp. 512–513 Notes on contributorsLisa Disch is Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan where she teaches contemporary political theory with a focus on political representation, democracy and feminist theory. She is the author of Hannah Arendt and the Limits of Philosophy (Cornell, 1994), The Tyranny of the Two-Party System (Columbia, 2002) and numerous articles.Je…
Introduction: Indigeneity, Palestine, and Israel
NAIS 1:2 FALL 2014 Editors’ Introduction 105 Special Forum PerspectivesontheIsraeli–PalestinianConflict fromIndigenousStudies JEAN M. O’BRIEN AND ROBERT WARRIOR Introduction: Indigeneity, Palestine, and Israel THE ONGOING POLITICAL and military conflict between Israelis and Palestinians has, over the past year, made academic politics matters of public scrutiny in the United States and other places in ways reminiscent of the “culture wars” of the …
What Is a Monument to Massasoit Doing in Kansas City? The Memory Work of Monuments and Place in Public Displays of History
This article explores questions surrounding the memory work of monuments and place by taking up a puzzling instance of public display of history: the presence of an enormous monument to the important seventeenth-century Pokanoket leader Massasoit in Kansas City, Missouri. Given the historical location of the Pokanoket in what came to be called New England, what are we to make of the erection of this monument, in fact a replica of the Plymouth mon…
Tracing Settler Colonialism's Eliminatory Logic in Traces of History
Tracing Settler Colonialism's Eliminatory Logic in Traces of History Jean M. O'Brien (bio) No concept has reoriented the field of Indigenous studies recently more than the theoretical framework of settler colonialism. And although Patrick Wolfe would be the first to insist that he did not invent it, his 2006 article, "Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native," offered a language for settler colonial studies that has been immensely in…
Presidential Address: Memory and Mobility: Grandma's Mahnomen, White Earth
In Jean M. O'Brien's 2013 American Society for Ethnohistory Presidential Address, "Memory and Mobility: Grandma's Mahnomen, White Earth," she uses reminiscences of her grandmother, Edna Wright Tonneson, to explore the coming of her family to the White Earth Ojibwe Reservation in northwestern Minnesota in the late nineteenth century. Like many others from White Earth, her family's story of reservation life involved ongoing patterns of mobility tha…
Monumental Mobility: The Memory Work of Massasoit
Installed at Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1921 to commemorate the tercentenary of the landing of the Pilgrims, Cyrus Dallin's statue Massasoit was intended to memorialize the Pokanoket Massasoit (leader) as a welcoming diplomat and participant in the mythical first Thanksgiving. But after the statue's unveiling, Massasoit began to move and proliferate in ways one would not expect of generally stationary monuments tethered to place. The plaster mod…
Monumental Mobility: The Memory Work of Massasoit
This book is situated within the terrain of intense debate over the placement and displacement of monuments to difficult histories. Installed in Plymouth in 1921 to commemorate the Tercentenary of the landing of the Pilgrims, Cyrus Dallin's statue Massasoit was intended to memorialize the Pokanoket Massasoit (leader) 8sâmeeqan as a welcoming diplomat and participant in the mythical first Thanksgiving. But Massasoit did not remain only in Plymouth…
“They are so frequently shifting their place of residence”: Land and the construction of social place of Indians in colonial Massachusetts
This chapter addresses the problem of the “vanishing Indian” by examining the ways in which the English used their own ideas about “proper” land use and ownership to displace Indians, especially in the Indian town of Natick, and to mark the place of Indians in the social order of colonial Massachusetts. English notions about the social place of Indians were not monolithic and they changed over time. Different notions about land use and ownership,…
What Does Native American and Indigenous Studies (Nais) Do
David Silverman offers a critical appraisal of two prizewinning works in Native American and Indigenous studies (NAIS), Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip's War, by Lisa Brooks, and Memory Lands: King Philip's War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast, by Christine M. DeLucia. Silverman's review treats the methodology associated with NAIS with some skepticism, offering the opportunity for a lively discussion about the merits and p…
Forthtellers Not Foretellers: The Origins of a Liberal Orthodoxy about the Prophets
The insistence that the prophets of the Hebrew Bible were "forthtellers, not foretellers" is ubiquitous in academic, liberal Christian, and even secular circles. It categorically denies that the prophets of ancient Israel predicted the future and characterizes them instead as voices of social critique. This article explains the origins of the phrase, its philosophical and religious underpinnings in Protestant, Enlightenment, Romantic, "scientific…
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