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A Spirit of Resistance: Sioux, Xhosa, and Maori Responses to Western Dominance, 1840-1920
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Luther Standing Bear, a Lakotal Sioux, was born in the 1860s during the year of "breaking up of camp." In Standing Bear's lifetime he witnessed military defeat, endured reservation life, graduated from the Carlisle Indian School, performed in Buffalo Bill's Wild West shows, and acted in Hollywood as mentioned in this paper.Abstract:
Luther Standing Bear, a Lakotal Sioux, was born in the 1860s during the year of "breaking up of camp." In Standing Bear's lifetime he witnessed military defeat, endured reservation life, graduated from the Carlisle Indian School, performed in Buffalo Bill's Wild West shows, and acted in Hollywood. Late in life Standing Bear, the consummate "acculturated" Indian, observed that after multitudinous "readjustments to fit the white man's mode of existence," he remained an "incurable hostile."2 For Standing Bear's folk, the Lakota Sioux of South Dakota, as well as peoples like the Xhosa in the eastern Cape of South Africa and the Maori of New Zealand, the wars of the nineteenth century were always accompanied by a contest overread more
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Indigenous Peoples of the British Dominions and the First World War
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Nga Puni Whakapiri : indigenous struggle and genetic engineering
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Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, during the Years 1837, 38, and 39: HANOVER BAY AND ITS VICINITY
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Visual Argument in Intercultural Contexts: Perspectives on Folk/Traditional Art
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The Meaning of Belonging: Race and the Making of South Africa
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Ethnography and the historical imagination
TL;DR: Comaroff and Comaroff as mentioned in this paper explored some of the fundamental questions of social science, delving into the nature of history and human agency, culture and consciousness, ritual and representation.
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The Invention of Culture
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The rise and fall of the South African peasantry
TL;DR: The first edition of this book was hailed as a major reinterpretation of South African history and was criticised the prevailing view that African agriculture was primitive or backward, and attacked the notion that poverty and lack of development were a result of 'traditionalism' as discussed by the authors.