{"title":"Kirk Dombrowski","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"against-culture-book-kirk-dombrowski-9780803266322","title":"Against Culture","description":"In a small Tlingit village in southeast Alaska in the autumn of 1992, a Native Pentecostal church, led by a locally born Native pastor, started a bonfire of 'non-Christian' items, including, reportedly, Native dancing regalia. The act stirred longstanding tensions between Native dance groups and the fundamentalist Christian churches throughout the region - and hearkened back to a time, nearly a century earlier, when Native church converts had convinced residents to burn their totem poles. This book traces the troubled links between these burnings, and between 'Native cultures', and in doing so, reveals the multiple strands of social tension defining Tlingit and Haida life in southeast Alaska. The strains \"Against Culture\" uncovers are rooted in local and statewide circumstances that include a history of misunderstanding and exploitation of Native groups, the recent emergence of 'radical' Christian churches, and the consequences of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971. Author Kirk Dombrowski describes the unfolding history of the act and its promotion of new sorts of social and cultural divisions within contemporary Native villages. Differences in economic opportunities, dependence on timber employment, the pursuit of subsistence resources, and most centrally, differences over the meaning of contemporary images of Native culture - especially between traditional culture advocates and Evangelical\/Pentecostal church members - all come into play in Dombrowski's account. His cogent, highly readable analysis shows how such disputes, however local their elements, reflect the broader problems of negotiating culture and collective identity. Revealing in its ethnographic details, arresting in its interpretive insights, \"Against Culture\" raises important practical and theoretical implications for our understanding of cultural and political processes. Kirk Dombrowski is an assistant professor of anthropology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50419888128273,"sku":"CIN0803266324VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0803266324.jpg?v=1750850031"},{"product_id":"culture-politics-book-kirk-dombrowski-9780615950419","title":"Culture Politics","description":"This book traces the history of indigenous land claims in Southeast Alaska. Based on three years of residence and over two decades of research and writing, Culture Politics lays out how Native land claims in Alaska came about, and why they have proven so divisive for many Alaska Native communities. Reframing and going beyond Dombrowski's earlier book, Against Culture, the current volume looks in depth at the trials and tribulations of subsistence hunters and fishers in villages like Hydaburg, Kake, Klawock, and Hoonah. Each of these communities has faced the same onslaught of timber harvesting and the collapse of the local fishery. Some have grown as a result, while others have shrunk. And some have spawned radical Pentecostal churches that have taken a stance against Native culture. Reactions like these are surprising, more so when they are most stridently advocated by Natives themselves. This book describes why this is so, and traces these processes back to the Land Claims process itself. Culture Politics is aimed at both popular and academic audiences. While the social and political processes it describes are complex, the language of the text is intended for ordinary adult readers. Those interested in Native American affairs, the history of Alaska, or the effect of environmental development on northern communities will find much to appreciate in this compelling, first-hand telling of life on the edge of America. Reviews of Dombrowski's last book on Alaska: Dombrowski's ethnography provides a timely intervention for developing a comparative understanding of liberal state interventions in the sphere of indigenous rights. He provides us with a nuanced understanding of the post-colonial world of indigenous peoples in his study of the Tlingit and Haida of southeast Alaska today. . . . This ethnography deserves to be read widely. It is most powerful in dealing with the internal fractures evident in indigenous communities, but does not ignore the interplay that exists between legislative processes, the exigencies of market forces, and the legacies of over-exploited finite resources.-Barry Morris, Australian Journal of Anthropology (Barry Morris Australian Journal of Anthropology ) Well written and based on diligent research, the book will appeal to anyone interested in contemporary Native American issues.  Recommended for] all levels and collections.-Choice (Choice ) Anyone who has attempted to sort out the intricacies of Native American Sovereignty movements or more generally, the nuances of Federal-Indian law, will immediately appreciate Dombrowski's trenchant formulations, the hallmark quality of which is a penetrating analysis of the ways that nativism and world capitalism are neither wholly separate nor wholly antagonistic but, rather, frequently connected and interdependent in surprising and unsettling ways.-Greg Johnson, The Journal of Religion (The Journal of Religion ) Against Culture is most productively surprising in the multiple ways the analysis grows beyond both its theoretical origins and its ethnography, to become widely useful, particularly for the development of new ways of understanding indigenous peoples' continuing histories.-Gerald Sider, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53354213343505,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53354213802257,"sku":"NIN9780615950419","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780615950419.jpg?v=1774831969"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-ie\/collections\/author-books-by-kirk-dombrowski.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}