Chiefs, Churches, and "Old Industries": Photographic Representations of Alabama-Coushatta and Coushatta Culture and Identity

Autor/in	De Montigny, Stephanie May
Titel	Chiefs, Churches, and "Old Industries": Photographic Representations of Alabama-Coushatta and Coushatta Culture and Identity
Quelle	In: American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 32 (2008) 4, S.1-40 (40 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0161-6463
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Indigenous Populations; American Indians; Photography; Ethnology; Anthropology; American Indian Culture; Ethnicity; Alabama + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sinti und Roma; American Indian; Indianer; Fotografie; Ethnologie; Anthropologie; Ethnizität
Abstract	Ethnologists in the early twentieth century were the first to publish photographs of the Alabama-Coushatta people of Texas and the Coushatta (often written as "Koasati") of Louisiana. Since then, authors have shaped the photographic and textual representations according to their own notions of culture and identity. In this case, Mark Raymond Harrington and John Reed Swanton went to Texas and Louisiana looking, like other salvage anthropologists, for remnants of Native cultures that were uncontaminated by European influence. These authors used photographs to authenticate "old industries" that represented, to them, an Indian past. Yet Native peoples all over the Southeast had already been subjected to considerable outside pressures to change their beliefs and practices. Early ethnologists neglected the processes of cultural hybridization and creativity in which Native peoples engaged to deal with these pressures. In this article, the author examines the photographic representations of Alabama-Coushatta and Coushatta culture and identity. (Contains 15 figures and 96 notes.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10