Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Sunday, January 27, 2013
The Cheyenne (Peoples of America)
The Cheyenne (Peoples of America) Review
This book provides a history and ethnography of the Cheyenne people from their prehistoric origins north of the Great Lakes to their present life in the reservations in Oklahoma. It is based on archaeological material, historical and linguistic evidence and draws vividly on the oral traditions of the Cheyenne themselves. Read more...
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Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Global "Body Shopping": An Indian Labor System in the Information Technology Industry
Global "Body Shopping": An Indian Labor System in the Information Technology Industry Review
How can America's information technology (IT) industry predict serious labor shortages while at the same time laying off tens of thousands of employees annually? The answer is the industry's flexible labor management system--a flexibility widely regarded as the modus operandi of global capitalism today. Global "Body Shopping" explores how flexibility and uncertainty in the IT labor market are constructed and sustained through concrete human actions.
Drawing on in-depth field research in southern India and in Australia, and folding an ethnography into a political economy examination, Xiang Biao offers a richly detailed analysis of the India-based global labor management practice known as "body shopping." In this practice, a group of consultants--body shops--in different countries works together to recruit IT workers. Body shops then farm out workers to clients as project-based labor; and upon a project's completion they either place the workers with a different client or "bench" them to await the next placement. Thus, labor is managed globally to serve volatile capital movement.
Underpinning this practice are unequal socioeconomic relations on multiple levels. While wealth in the New Economy is created in an increasingly abstract manner, everyday realities--stock markets in New York, benched IT workers in Sydney, dowries in Hyderabad, and women and children in Indian villages--sustain this flexibility.
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Saturday, January 12, 2013
Cherokee Proud: A Guide for Tracing and Honoring Your Cherokee Ancestors, Second Edition
Cherokee Proud: A Guide for Tracing and Honoring Your Cherokee Ancestors, Second Edition Review
Absolutely the "Bible" of Cherokee Genealogy. New, 336 page 2nd Edition, partially in four color. If the information in this remarkable new book doesn't lead a person to proof of their Cherokee roots, nothing can! Read more...
Thursday, January 3, 2013
To Marry an Indian: The Marriage of Harriett Gold and Elias Boudinot in Letters, 1823-1839
To Marry an Indian: The Marriage of Harriett Gold and Elias Boudinot in Letters, 1823-1839 Review
When nineteen-year-old Harriett Gold, from a prominent white family in Cornwall, Connecticut, announced in 1825 her intention to marry a Cherokee man, her shocked family initiated a spirited correspondence debating her decision to marry an Indian. Eventually, Gold's family members reconciled themselves to her wishes, and she married Elias Boudinot in 1826. After the marriage, she returned with Boudinot to the Cherokee Nation, where he went on to become a controversial political figure who was editor of the first Native American newspaper.
Providing rare firsthand documentation of race relations in the early nineteenth-century United States, this volume collects the Gold family correspondence during the engagement period as well as letters the young couple sent to the family describing their experiences in New Echota (capital of the Cherokee Nation) during the years prior to the Cherokee Removal. In an introduction providing historical and social contexts, Theresa Strouth Gaul offers a literary reading of the correspondence, highlighting the value of the epistolary form and the gender and racial dynamics of the exchange. As Gaul demonstrates, the correspondence provides a factual accompaniment to the many fictionalized accounts of contacts between Native Americans and Euroamericans and supports an increasing recognition that letters form an important category of literature. Read more...
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Shadow of an Indian Star
Shadow of an Indian Star Review
The Pauls have woven family legends with facts from 19th century newspaper articles, court documents and Chickasaw records into this epic novel which chronicles three generations of a brawling pioneer family, their friends and enemies, and the women who helped battle tragedy, corruption and their own inner demons to save themselves and the Chickasaw Nation from annihilation. Read more...
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Surviving Through the Days: Translations of Native California Stories and Songs
Surviving Through the Days: Translations of Native California Stories and Songs Review
This anthology of treasures from the oral literature of Native California, assembled by an editor admirably sensitive to language, culture, and history, will delight scholars and general readers alike. Herbert Luthin's generous selection of stories, anecdotes, myths, reminiscences, and songs is drawn from a wide sampling of California's many Native cultures, and although a few pieces are familiar classics, most are published here for the first time, in fresh literary translations. The translators, whether professional linguists or Native scholars and storytellers, are all acknowledged experts in their respective languages, and their introductions to each selection provide welcome cultural and biographical context. Augmenting and enhancing the book are Luthin's engaging, informative essays on topics that range from California's Native languages and oral-literary traditions to critical issues in performance, translation, and the history of California literary ethnography.
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