War and the Reconfiguring of American Indian Society

Bibliographic Data

ID7096980
AuthorsRussel Lawrence Barsh (corresponding author)
Year2001
Volume35
Issue3
Pages371-410
Publication date2001-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of American Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-8758 • E-ISSN: 1469-5154
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/s0021875801006661
OpenAlexW2119116318
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited18

When I was thirteen years old, my father took me to Gettysburg. It is my first recollection of my father’s growing passion for studying the history of the Civil War, which, I was only to realize long after his death, was his way of grappling with the unresolved horrors of his own experience as a battlefield medic. By escaping into the minutiae of a past and – at a distance – more heroic war, he had been probing his feelings about a war that he suspected (like Paul Fussell in Wartime , and Farley Mowat in And No Birds Sang ) was dominated by ‘‘chickenshit’’ and pointless death. He was past sixty before he told me how terrified he had been, and how he had never stopped thinking and dreaming about what he had seen

Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Battlefield · Feeling · Passion · Psychoanalysis · Spanish Civil War · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture · History · Psychology · Social Psychology

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