Papers by Carter Jones Meyer
The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 2014
diasporic communities retain strong links to their distant islands (at least for the first genera... more diasporic communities retain strong links to their distant islands (at least for the first generation) and Connell demonstrates the ways that cultural practices and identity politics flourish, sustaining islanders in foreign lands. This is a densely argued book, full of detailed information, incisive comparisons and clear exposition of the ways that environmental, political and economic factors operate both to sustain and to disadvantage people in small island states. It is scholarly and clearly written, drawing on an extraordinarily wide range of sources. For anthropologists, who tend to emphasise the particular and eschew the academic task of drawing direct comparisons across regions, Connell's book is a salutary and sobering study. For while he, as most anthropologists do, concludes on a hopeful and optimistic note, observing the survival and resilience of those who live on small islands, the weight of his argument lies in his careful elucidation of their fragility in the context of globalisation.
Journal of American History, 2007
Some of the analytical sections of the book might seem overly abstract. However, part of the joy ... more Some of the analytical sections of the book might seem overly abstract. However, part of the joy of Regimes is the amazing scope of concrete case material on which Tilly draws-from France (1598 to 2003) and Great Britain (1750 to 1830) to contemporary India, Peru, and South Africa, as well as the collapse of the Soviet Union and the genocide in Rwanda-with a reassuring competence to develop his hypotheses and to illustrate his arguments. Charles D. Brockett Sewanee: The University of the South Naval Blockades in Peace and War: An Economic History Since 1750.
New Mexico Historical Review, 2000
During the early 1920s, when the Federal government intensified its efforts to divest American In... more During the early 1920s, when the Federal government intensified its efforts to divest American Indians of their cultures and assimilate them into mainstream American life, an influential group of white intellectuals, many of whom lived in the Southwest, rallied around the Indians and began a massive nationwide campaign to save them from imminent destruction. Based upon their highly romanticized understanding of New Mexico's Pueblo Indians-who seemed now to bear the brunt of the government's assimilation policy-the intellectuals believed Native cultures possessed secrets of life that modem American culture lacked, among them deeply rooted beliefs in community and the principle of unity between man and nature. Reform of U.S. Indian policy seemed imperative if these secrets were to be saved, but those persons whose sympathies lay with Indians also believed that political reform could not be accomplished without broader efforts to educate the American public about the value of Indian cultures;! A campaign of this kind would not only overturn the policy of assimilation, thus saving Indians from certain destruction, but also provide an essential foundation for the regeneration of an American culture that refonners believed was in serious trouble, the result of urban-industrial development and the attendant growth of greed and materialism. By 1922, when JO,hn Collier emerged as the most vocal-and often nettlesome-leader of the political crusade to save Indians, Edgar Lee Hewett, Director of the School of American Research and the Museum of New Mexico in Santa Fe, was assuming leadership of that campaign's cultural counterpart. Hewett, a master organizer and promoter,
American Ethnologist, 2003
Selling the Indian: Commercializing and Appropriating American Indian Cultures. Carter Jones Meye... more Selling the Indian: Commercializing and Appropriating American Indian Cultures. Carter Jones Meyer and Diana Royer. eds. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2001. ix. 279 pp., photographs, index.
Journal of American History, 2016
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Papers by Carter Jones Meyer