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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To
mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania
Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's
distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print.
Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers
peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
In Europe and North and South America during the early modern
period, people believed that their dreams might be, variously,
messages from God, the machinations of demons, visits from the
dead, or visions of the future. Interpreting their dreams in much
the same ways as their ancient and medieval forebears had done-and
often using the dream-guides their predecessors had
written-dreamers rejoiced in heralds of good fortune and consulted
physicians, clerics, or practitioners of magic when their visions
waxed ominous. Dreams, Dreamers, and Visions traces the role of
dreams and related visionary experiences in the cultures within the
Atlantic world from the late thirteenth to early seventeenth
centuries, examining an era of cultural encounters and transitions
through this unique lens. In the wake of Reformation-era battles
over religious authority and colonial expansion into Asia, Africa,
and the Americas, questions about truth and knowledge became
particularly urgent and debate over the meaning and reliability of
dreams became all the more relevant. Exploring both indigenous and
European methods of understanding dream phenomena, this volume
argues that visions were central to struggles over spiritual and
political authority. Featuring eleven original essays, Dreams,
Dreamers, and Visions explores the ways in which reports and
interpretations of dreams played a significant role in reflecting
cultural shifts and structuring historic change. Contributors: Emma
Anderson, Mary Baine Campbell, Luis Corteguera, Matthew Dennis,
Carla Gerona, Maria V Jordan, Luis Filipe Silverio Lima, Phyllis
Mack, Ann Marie Plane, Andrew Redden, Janine Riviere, Leslie
Tuttle, Anthony F. C. Wallace.
In Thomas Jefferson's time, white Americans were bedeviled by a
moral dilemma unyielding to reason and sentiment: what to do about
the presence of black slaves and free Indians. That Jefferson
himself was caught between his own soaring rhetoric and private
behavior toward blacks has long been known. But the tortured
duality of his attitude toward Indians is only now being unearthed.
In this landmark history, Anthony Wallace takes us on a tour of
discovery to unexplored regions of Jefferson's mind. There, the
bookish Enlightenment scholar--collector of Indian vocabularies,
excavator of ancient burial mounds, chronicler of the eloquence of
America's native peoples, and mourner of their tragic fate--sits
uncomfortably close to Jefferson the imperialist and architect of
Indian removal. Impelled by the necessity of expanding his agrarian
republic, he became adept at putting a philosophical gloss on his
policy of encroachment, threats of war, and forced land cessions--a
policy that led, eventually, to cultural genocide.
In this compelling narrative, we see how Jefferson's close
relationships with frontier fighters and Indian agents, land
speculators and intrepid explorers, European travelers, missionary
scholars, and the chiefs of many Indian nations all complicated his
views of the rights and claims of the first Americans. Lavishly
illustrated with scenes and portraits from the period, "Jefferson
and the Indians" adds a troubled dimension to one of the most
enigmatic figures of American history, and to one of its most
shameful legacies.
A celebrated triumph of historiography, "Rockdale" tells the story
of the Industrial Revolution as it was experienced by the men,
women, and children of the cotton-manufacturing town of Rockdale,
Pennsylvania. The lives of workers, managers, inventors, owners,
and entrepreneurs are brilliantly illuminated by Anthony F. C.
Wallace, who also describes the complex technology that governed
all of Rockdale's townspeople. Wallace examines the new
relationships between employer and employee as work and workers
moved out of the fields into the closed-in world of the spinning
mule, the power loom, and the mill office. He brings to light the
impassioned battle for the soul of the mill worker, a struggle
between the exponents of the Enlightenment and Utopian Socialism,
on the one hand, and, on the other, the ultimately triumphant
champions of evangelical Christianity.
Anthony F. C. Wallace, one of the most influential American
anthropologists of the modern era, brings together some of his most
stimulating and celebrated writings. These essays feature his
seminal work on revitalization movements, which has profoundly
shaped our understanding of the processes of change in religious
and political organizations-from the nineteenth-century code of the
Seneca prophet known as Handsome Lake to the origins of world
religions and political faiths. Wallace also discusses
mazeways-mental maps that join personalities with cultures and
thereby illustrate how individuals embrace their culture, conduct
everyday life, and cope with illness and other forms of severe
personal or cultural stress. Wallace offers a set of penetrating
observations and analyses of change on topics ranging from
immediate responses to disasters to long-term technological
adaptations and transformations in artistic style. Wallace's
theories, fieldwork, and concepts featured in this landmark volume
continue to challenge scholars across disciplines, including
anthropologists, historians, sociologists, and theologians. Anthony
F. C. Wallace is a professor emeritus of anthropology at the
University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of many books,
including The Social Context of Innovation: Bureaucrats, Families,
and Heroes in the Early Industrial Revolution, as Foreseen in
Bacon's "New Atlantis" (Nebraska 2003). Robert S. Grumet is an
archaeologist for the National Park Service, Mid-Atlantic Region.
He is the editor of Northeastern Indian Lives: 1632-1816 and the
author of Historic Contact: Indian People and Colonists in Today's
Northeastern United States in the Sixteenth through Eighteenth
Centuries.
This collection of fifteen essays examines the lives of important
but relatively unknown Native Americans. The chapters explore the
complexities of Indian-colonial relations from the seventeenth to
the early nineteenth centuries, from Maine to the Ohio valley. The
volume is interdisciplinary, drawing on the methods and insights of
social history, cultural anthropology, archaeology, and the study
of material culture. Few works have directed attention toward such
lesser-known figures as Shickellamy, an Oneida diplomat; the Mohawk
sachem Theyanoguin; Awashunkes, a Saconett sunksquaw; or Molly
Ockett, a Pigwacket doctor. These individuals operated at the often
dangerous and always uncertain interstices separating their world
from that of the European settlers, as they worked for the security
and survival of their peoples during the first centuries of
contact. Their efforts helped shape events that determined the
course of history in the colonial Northeast.
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