"Unreciprocated "Reverence
"Papers," Political Recognition, and Tlingit Engagement with US Governmentality in the Late Nineteenth Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2734396 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Steve J Langdon (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 505-536 |
| Publication date | 2013-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnohistory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0014-1801 • E-ISSN: 1527-5477 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00141801-2140731 |
| OpenAlex | W2313388762 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 18 |
Writing and "papers" were first encountered by the Tlingit through contacts with European explorers and traders in the late eighteenth century. Euro-American traders subsequently developed a system of papers of introduction for high-ranking indigenous leaders. These papers became objects of great importance to the leaders, who held them closely and brought them out to show to other important Euro-American visitors. After 1867, US military officers observed that when they encountered Tlingit leaders, they were regularly shown papers from traders in exceptional condition. US military commanders adopted the system, and provided Tlingit leaders with papers recognizing their position and authority, which were likewise carefully preserved. This essay contends that papers of introduction and recognition were conceptualized by Tlingit leaders with the "reverence" accorded in traditional cultural practice to at.óow, thereby instantiating a hybrid bridge of relationship rooted in Tlingit conceptualization of reciprocal and sustained respect for the claims of others. The reverence bestowed by the Tlingit on these instruments was not reciprocated by later agents of US governmentality, notably Governor John Brady, and Tlingit efforts to sustain traditional cultural practices in regard to political leadership through mutual construction of an articulation with US governmentality were repudiated in the early 1900s
Conceptualization · Governmentality · Indigenous · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Reverence · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · American History and Culture · Anthropology · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Law · Philosophy
Anthropology & the colonial encounter
The interface between the written and the oral
The Art of Not Being Governed
Anthropology in the margins of the state
Ethnography and the Historical Imagination
Colonialism and Its Forms of Knowledge
Alaskan John G. Brady
Malaspina and Galiano
The Power of Print in the Eastern Woodlands
The Canoe Rocks - We Do Not Know What Will Become of Us
The Tlingit Indians
"Unreciprocated "Reverence
Seeing Like a State
The Anthropology of Colonialism
Colonial Governmentality
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2013 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |