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Author Gunn, Robert Lawrence, author.

Title Ethnology and empire : languages, literature, and the making of the North American borderlands / Robert Lawrence Gunn.

Publication Info. New York : New York University Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 241 pages) : illustrations, maps.
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Series America and the Long 19th Century
America and the long 19th century.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-228) and index.
Note Online resource; title from digital title page (JSTOR platform, viewed November 21, 2019).
Summary Ethnology and Empire tells stories about words and ideas, and ideas about words that developed in concert with shifting conceptions about Native peoples and western spaces in the nineteenth-century United States. Contextualizing the emergence of Native American linguistics as both a professionalized research discipline and as popular literary concern of American culture prior to the U.S.-Mexico War, Robert Lawrence Gunn reveals the manner in which relays between the developing research practices of ethnology, works of fiction, autobiography, travel narratives, Native oratory, and sign languages gave imaginative shape to imperial activity in the western borderlands. In literary and performative settings that range from the U.S./Mexico borderlands to the Great Lakes region of Tecumseh's Pan-Indian Confederacy and the hallowed halls of learned societies in New York and Philadelphia, Ethnology and Empire models an interdisciplinary approach to networks of peoples, spaces, and communication practices that transformed the boundaries of U.S. empire through a transnational and scientific archive. Emphasizing the culturally transformative impacts western expansionism and Indian Removal, Ethnology and Empire reimagines U.S. literary and cultural production for future conceptions of hemispheric American literatures.
Contents Philologies of race: ethnological linguistics and novelistic representation -- Empire, sign languages, and the long expedition, 1819-1821 -- John Dunn Hunter, Tecumseh, and the linguistic politics of Pan-Indianism -- Connecting borderlands: Native networks and the Fredonian rebellion -- John Russell Bartlett's literary borderlands: Ethnology, the U.S.-Mexico war, and the United States Boundary Survey -- Indian passports.
Language English.
Subject Anthropological linguistics -- North America -- History -- 19th century.
Indians of North America -- Languages.
Borderlands -- North America -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- Territorial expansion -- Social aspects.
Ethnology -- North America -- History -- 19th century.
Ethnolinguistique -- Amérique du Nord -- Histoire -- 19e siècle.
Langues des Peuples autochtones -- Amérique du Nord.
Régions frontalières -- Amérique du Nord -- Histoire -- 19e siècle.
États-Unis -- Expansion territoriale -- Aspect social.
Ethnologie -- Amérique du Nord -- Histoire -- 19e siècle.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Anthropological linguistics
Borderlands
Ethnology
Indians of North America -- Languages
North America https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJxRHKPqWyj6g89H9PwHmd
United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq
Ethnologie
Fremdbild
Indigenes Volk
Kolonialismus
Kulturkontakt
Linguistik
Nordamerika
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form History
Added Title Languages, literature, and the making of the North American borderlands
Other Form: Print version: Gunn, Robert Lawrence. Ethnology and empire. New York : New York University Press, [2015] 9781479842582 9781479849055 (DLC) 2015015615 (OCoLC)906010877
ISBN 9781479812516 (electronic bk.)
147981251X (electronic bk.)
1479872415
9781479872411
9781479842582 (hardback)
1479842583 (hardback)
9781479849055 (paperback)
1479849057 (paperback)
Standard No. AU@ 000058381194
NZ1 16178810

 
    
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