Images, Land, and Places: Telling Indigenous Narratives and Histories
Jennifer Graber’s The Gods of Indian Country (2018) and Pamela Klassen’s The Story of Radio Mind (2018) tell stories of Christian and settler-colonialist history from new vantage points highlighting two areas: (1) the importance of land and places, and (2) the use of images in research. Both authors...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
[2020]
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Numen
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| Review of: | The gods of Indian country (New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018) (Martin, Kathleen J.)
The story of radio mind (Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018) (Martin, Kathleen J.) |
| RelBib Classification: | AF Geography of religion BB Indigenous religions KBQ North America |
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qualitative and ethnographic research
B Book review B images and maps B Native and Indigenous missionization |
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| Summary: | Jennifer Graber’s The Gods of Indian Country (2018) and Pamela Klassen’s The Story of Radio Mind (2018) tell stories of Christian and settler-colonialist history from new vantage points highlighting two areas: (1) the importance of land and places, and (2) the use of images in research. Both authors spent time in the lands of their research, and both employ images and maps in meaningful ways. To understand Indigenous experiences on the land and the devastation of dispossession, knowledge of land and places is crucial; to reinterpret the visual record, Indigenous perspectives are imperative. However, largely missing in both texts are Indigenous feelings for the land and their interpretations of the visual record. Therefore, this essay is framed around three questions for scholarship regarding Indigenous spiritual traditions: (1) How can research help readers understand Indigenous stories of dispossession? (2) What guidelines should authors consider when attempting to rewrite/explore/investigate historical narratives? (3) In what ways can Indigenous perspectives revise stories of marginalization and contribute to revitalization? |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5276 |
| Reference: | Kritik in "North America, Turtle Island, and the Study of Religion (2020)"
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Numen
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685276-12341577 |