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Chronicled here are 500 years of the complex dynamics of Mi’kmaq culture. This text explores the group as a tribal nation – their ordeals in the face of colonialism and their current struggle for self-determination and cultural revitalization.
(Explore the most fascinating, creative, dangerous, and co...)
Explore the most fascinating, creative, dangerous, and complex species alive today: you and your neighbors in the global village. With compelling photos, engaging examples, and select studies by anthropologists in far-flung places, the authors of Anthropology: The Human Challenge provide a holistic view of anthropology to help you make sense of today's world. You'll discover the different ways humans face the challenge of existence; the connection between biology and culture in the shaping of human behavior; and the impact of globalization on peoples and cultures around the world.
(Filled with current examples, The Essence of Anthropology...)
Filled with current examples, The Essence of Anthropology brings to life anthropology's key concepts and their great relevance to today's complex world. You'll learn about the varied ways culture helps humans adapt to face the challenges of existence, the connection between human culture and human biology, and the impact of globalization on peoples and cultures around the world. New Digging into Anthropology activities provide a hands-on approach to anthropological methods. Furthermore, the book is packed with learning tools that demonstrate major concepts, offer interesting examples of anthropology's relevance to daily life, and guide your study to help you retain what you read.
(When the Wabanaki were moved to reservations, they proved...)
When the Wabanaki were moved to reservations, they proved their resourcefulness by catering to the burgeoning tourist market during the 19th and early 20th centuries, when Bar Harbor was called Eden. This engaging, richly illustrated, and meticulously researched book chronicles the intersecting lives of the Wabanaki and wealthy summer rusticators on Mount Desert Island. While the rich built sumptuous summer homes, the Wabanaki sold them Native crafts, offered guide services, and produced Indian shows.
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This volume, issued in a limited edition to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day (6 June 1944), features chapters excerpted from a forthcoming (2020) book-length biography of Penobscot Indian Elder Charles Norman Shay of Indian Island, Maine. His life story, told partly in his own words, brings to light the most ignored or forgotten service and sacrifice made by Native American soldiers and their communities in WWII, the Korean War and Cold War. Zeroing in on D-Day - the beginning of the Allied invasion of Normandy, France - these sample chapters focus on Private Shay’s baptism by fire as a 19-year-old combat medic attached to an assault platoon in the U.S. Army's 1st Infantry Division, known as the "Big Red One." Struggling ashore at Omaha Beach as part of the first wave of attack in Operation Neptune, he treated and rescued countless comrades and was awarded a Silver Star for gallantry displayed that day. Woven into the narrative are stories representative of other front-line medics and the 500 fellow North American Indians who heroically participated in what is still the largest seaborne invasion in world history.
Harald E.L. Prins is a Dutch advocacy anthropologist whose scholarly research is closely tied to his human rights work with indigenous peoples. He has done extensive fieldwork in South America (Pampa & Gran Chaco) and North America (in particular New England, Canadian Maritimes, and southern Plains).
Background
Harald E.L. Prins was born on September 7, 1951, in Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands to a maritime anthropologist and East-Africanist Dr. Adriaan Hendrik Johan Prins (1921-2000) and Pietertje Anna Catharina (Poorter) Prins. Prins is the godson of H.E. Lambert (1893-1967), a Swahili linguist and Kikuyu specialist in Kenya.
Education
Harald E.L. Prins was trained in anthropology, archaeology, and comparative history at various universities in the Netherlands and the United States. Prins graduated from the University of Nijmegen, in 1976. He also received a Certificate in 16 mm Filmmaking from Parsons Film School in 1980. He became a Doctor of Philosophy at New School for Social Research in 1988. Prins also attended Columbia University, City University of New York, The University of Amsterdam, The University of Utrecht, and the University of Groningen.
Harald Prins taught at Bowdoin College, Colby College, University of Maine, and University of Nijmegen (Netherlands). Among other courses, he has taught Native Rights, Anthropological Theory, Ethnographic Film, Violent Conflict, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, and the Ethnography of Indigenous North and South America.
Appointed University Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at Kansas State University in 2005, Prins focuses on Northeast America's Indian cultures and history, in particular, Wabanaki (Micmac/Mi'kmaq, Maliseet, Passamaquoddy, Penobscot, and Abenaki). He authored The Mi'kmaq: Resistance, Accommodation, and Cultural Survival (Harcourt Brace '96) and Tribulations of a Border Tribe (UMI 1988), and co-edited American Beginnings: Exploration, Culture, and Cartography in the Land of Norumbega (U Nebraska Press 1994). He also co-edited several special journal issues, including The Origins of Visual Anthropology: North American Contributions (2002) and co-authored four major introductory textbooks in multiple editions: Cultural Anthropology: The Human Challenge (13th ed.) and Evolution and Prehistory: The Human Challenge (9th ed.) as well as the combined volume Anthropology: The Human Challenge (13th ed.) and The Essence of Anthropology (3rd ed.), all published by Wadsworth/Cengage Learning. In 2007, he and his wife Bunny McBride authored a two-volume report for the National Park Service, titled Asticou's Island Domain: Wabanaki Peoples at Mount Desert Island, 1500-2000, followed by their book Indians in Eden: Wabanakis and Rusticators on Maine’s Mount Desert Island: 1840s-1920s (2009). Currently, they are co-authoring another book, titled From Indian Island to Omaha Beach: The Story of Charles Shay, Penobscot Indian War Hero (2012) and he is co-editing a book on shamanism.
Professionally trained in 16-mm filmmaking, Harald Prins has juried documentary film festivals and consulted on several documentary films. He co-produced Our Lives in Our Hands, a documentary on Mi'kmaq basketmakers (D.E.R. 1986), which premiered at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, aired on Public Television and was screened at numerous film festivals and museums in the United States and abroad. He also served as a key research advisor for Wabanaki: A New Dawn (N.E.H. Film 1996), and co-produced the international award-winning film on visual anthropologist Edmund Carpenter, Oh, What a Blow that Phantom Gave Me! (D.E.R. 2003), screened at many international ethnographic film festivals.
Work with indigenous communities includes a decade as a primary researcher and political advisor for the Aroostook Band of Micmacs (Maine) in their successful land claims and federal recognition struggle. In 1990 Dr. Prins testified on their behalf in United States Congressional hearings, resulting in legislation providing a settlement that met their goals. Since then he has maintained an active working relationship with the tribe. In 1993 he served as an International Observer during Paraguay's landmark presidential elections. That same year he began collaborating with Plains Apache in Oklahoma on a long-term visual documentation project. Among other shared endeavors with various tribal groups, he formed part of the aboriginal rights team of Miawpukek First Nation (Conne River, Newfoundland). He has served as an expert witness in Newfoundland's Supreme Court (2000), and other legal venues.
Prins's publications include almost 120 scholarly books, refereed and non-refereed articles, encyclopedia entries, and academic press and other book chapters, as well as over 45 book & film reviews, in eight languages. Moreover, Prins presented about 90 major professional conference papers and presentations, including keynote and distinguished lectures, commencement addresses in the United States and Europe. He serves on the editorial boards of several academic journals and has provided peer reviews for 21 journals, 20 publishers, as well as the National Science Foundation, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, National Humanities Center, United States Dept. of the Interior, United States Dept. of Health & Human Services, etc.
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"As a seven-year-old, clomping in wooden shoes through my Dutch village, I already imagined soft leather moccasins on my feet and fantasized about becoming an explorer. My profession as an anthropologist allows me to indulge in those childhood dreams."
"My objectives are to inform my peers, students, and the general public about the rich cultural heritage of America’s indigenous peoples. I also write for American Indians in the hope that my research will deepen their own understanding of the struggle for cultural survival since the European invasion. In more general terms, I write in order to enlighten myself and others about the historical puzzle of the human condition. Finally, I admit that I am intrigued by the strange and errant whims of history, often far more bizarre than what novelists can dream of."