Indian Work : : Language and Livelihood in Native American History / / Daniel H. Usner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Usner, Daniel H.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; List of Illustrations --; Introduction: The Pursuit of Livelihood and the Production of Language --; 1. Inventing the Hunter State --; 2. Narratives of Decline and Disappearance --; 3. The Discourse over Poverty --; 4. Perceptions of Authenticity and Passivity --; 5. Primitivism and Tourism --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674054745; 9783110442205; 9783110459517; 9783110662566
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674054745
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Daniel H. Usner.

Representations of Indian economic life have played an integral role in discourses about poverty, social policy, and cultural difference but have received surprisingly little attention. Daniel Usner dismantles ideological characterizations of Indian livelihood to reveal the intricacy of economic adaptations in American Indian history.