Description
Cultural brokers have shared certain qualities-in particular a thorough understanding of two of more cultures. Living on the edge of change and conflict, they have responded to evolving and unstable circumstances or alliances with a flexibility born of their determination to bring understanding to disparate peoples.
No composite portrait can encompass the complexity of the brokerage experience. To convey the many roles of these intermediaries, editor Margaret Connell Szasz has brought together fourteen distinct portraits, crafted by prominent scholars of Indian-white relations, of brokers across the continent and throughout three centuries of American history-in the colonial world, during the expansion of the republic, in the Wild West, and in the twentieth century.
This fascinating and inspiring collection speaks eloquently of life on the cultural frontier. Key figures in our pluralistic heritage, cultural brokers are no less important today, as society continues to struggle with diversity.
About the Author
Margaret Connell Szasz teaches courses in American Indian history at the University of New Mexico. Her publications include Education and the American Indian: The Road to self-Determination since 1928 and Indian Education in the American Colonies: 1607-1783.
Book Information
ISBN 9780806133850
Author Margaret Connell Szasz
Format Paperback
Page Count 404
Imprint University of Oklahoma Press
Publisher University of Oklahoma Press
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 23mm
