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X-marksScott Richard Lyons

X-marks

Scott Richard Lyons
2010236 pages
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"In X-Marks, Scott Richard Lyons explores the complexity of contemporary Indian identity and current debates among Indians about traditionalism, nationalism, and tribalism. Employing the x-mark as a metaphor for what he calls the "Indian assent to the new," Lyons offers a valuable alternative to both imperialist concepts of assimilation and nativist notions of resistance, calling into question the binary oppositions produced during the age of imperialism and maintaining that indigeneity is something that people do, not what they are. Drawing on his personal experiences and family history on…

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5 editions
  • Other · English · 2010
    University of Minnesota Press · 9781299945869
  • Other · English · 2010
    University of Minnesota Press · 9781452915296
  • Other · English · 2010
    University of Minnesota Press · 236 pages · 9780816666768
  • Other · English · 2010
    University of Minnesota Press · 9781452931029
  • Other · English · 2010
    University of Minnesota Press · 9780816673735
Group identitySelf-determination, nationalIdentification (psychology)Race awarenessAnthropologyIndians of North AmericaEthnic identityCultural assimilation