Prophetic Worlds (Paperback, 1st pbk. ed)

In his provocative ethnohistory, Christopher Miller offers an innovative reinterpretation of relations between Native Americans and Christian settlers on the Columbia Plateau. Miller draws on a wealth of ethnographic resources to show how culturally-derived perceptions and systems of rationality played more of a determining role in the interactions between these two groups than did material forces. Initially, Plateau Indians and the American missionaries who came to convert them perceived each other as crucial to the fulfillment of their own millennial destiny. When these views were contravened, relations quickly and fatally soured. In explaining this devolution, Prophetic Worlds provides a novel and insightful rendering of the cultural understandings that underwrote the mid-nineteenth-century transformation of life on the Plateau.

General

Imprint:	University of Washington Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2003
First published:	2003
Authors:	Christopher L. Miller
Foreword by:	Chris Friday
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade / Trade
Pages:	192
Edition:	1st pbk. ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-295-98302-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Multicultural studies > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Human biology & related topics > Biological anthropology > General
LSN:	0-295-98302-7
Barcode:	9780295983028

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