Food, Control, and Resistance: Rations and Indigenous Peoples in the United States and South Australia (Plains Histories) - Softcover

Levi, Tamara

 
9780896729643: Food, Control, and Resistance: Rations and Indigenous Peoples in the United States and South Australia (Plains Histories)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0896729648 ISBN 13: 9780896729643
Verlag: TEXAS TECH UNIV PR, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

An essential component of every culture, food offers up much more than mere sustenance. Food is also important in religion, ceremony, celebration, and cultural knowledge and transmission. Colonial governments were well aware of the cultural importance of food. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, governments manipulated rations in attempts to control indigenous movement, induce culture change and assimilation, decrease indigenous independence, and increase dependence on provided goods. However, indigenous peoples often frustrated these plans by taking rations for their own reasons and with their own cultural interpretations of the process. Tamara Levi uses four case studies to examine food rationing policies, practices, and results in the United States and South Australia. She looks at government rationing among the Pawnees and Osages in Nebraska and Indian Territory and among the Moorundie Aborigines and Ngarrindjeris at Point McLeay in South Australia during the mid and late nineteenth century. She highlights similarities in the use of food rations by two settler societies. She also explores how differences in environment, indigenous and colonial populations, and overall indigenous policies impacted the rationales for and implementation of food rationing as a tool for forced acculturation.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Tamara Levi is an associate professor of history at Jacksonville State University. This is her first book.

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Verlag
TEXAS TECH UNIV PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0896729648
ISBN 13 
9780896729643
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
280
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