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Native American Freemasonry: Associationalism and Performance in America
Joy Porter
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Description for Native American Freemasonry: Associationalism and Performance in America
Hardback. Demonstrates that Freemasonry became a significant avenue for the exchange and perhaps even co-creation of cultural forms by Indians and non-Indians Num Pages: 368 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRLP; JFSV1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 33. Weight in Grams: 590.
Freemasonry has played a significant role in the history of Native Americans since the colonial era—a role whose extent and meaning are fully explored for the first time in this book. The overarching concern of Native American Freemasonry is with how Masonry met specific social and personal needs of Native Americans, a theme developed across three periods: the revolutionary era, the last third of the nineteenth century, and the years following the First World War. Joy Porter positions Freemasonry within its historical context, examining its social and political impact as a transatlantic phenomenon at the heart of the colonizing process. ... Read more
Freemasonry has played a significant role in the history of Native Americans since the colonial era—a role whose extent and meaning are fully explored for the first time in this book. The overarching concern of Native American Freemasonry is with how Masonry met specific social and personal needs of Native Americans, a theme developed across three periods: the revolutionary era, the last third of the nineteenth century, and the years following the First World War. Joy Porter positions Freemasonry within its historical context, examining its social and political impact as a transatlantic phenomenon at the heart of the colonizing process. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803225473
SKU
V9780803225473
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99-1
About Joy Porter
Joy Porter is a professor of Indigenous history at the University of Hull, UK. She is the author of Native American Environmentalism (Nebraska, 2014) and To Be Indian: Indian Identity and the Life of Arthur Caswell Parker, the coeditor of The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature, and the editor of Competing Voices from Native America and Place and Native American ... Read more
Reviews for Native American Freemasonry: Associationalism and Performance in America
"This elegantly written book has much to recommend it. It is meticulously documented and is based on archival and secondary sources housed in major Masonic libraries in cities on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. The book serves as a metric for studies of Native Americans and of other minority groups who have participated in Freemasonry. . . . [Native ... Read more