{"product_id":"ethnology-and-empire-9781479849055","title":"Ethnology and Empire","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner, The Early American Literature Book Prize\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEthnology and Empire tells stories about words and ideas, and ideas about\u003cbr\u003ewords that developed in concert with shifting conceptions about Native peoples\u003cbr\u003eand western spaces in the nineteenth-century United States. Contextualizing the\u003cbr\u003eemergence of Native American linguistics as both a professionalized research\u003cbr\u003ediscipline and as popular literary concern of American culture prior to the\u003cbr\u003eU.S.-Mexico War, Robert Lawrence Gunn reveals the manner in\u003cbr\u003ewhich relays between the developing research practices of ethnology, works of\u003cbr\u003efiction, autobiography, travel narratives, Native oratory, and sign languages\u003cbr\u003egave imaginative shape to imperial activity in the western borderlands. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn literary and\u003cbr\u003eperformative settings that range from the U.S.\/Mexico borderlands to the Great\u003cbr\u003eLakes region of Tecumseh’s Pan-Indian Confederacy and the hallowed halls of\u003cbr\u003elearned societies in New York and Philadelphia, Ethnology and Empire models\u003cbr\u003ean interdisciplinary approach to networks of peoples, spaces, and communication\u003cbr\u003epractices that transformed the boundaries of U.S. empire through a\u003cbr\u003etransnational and scientific archive. Emphasizing the culturally transformative\u003cbr\u003eimpacts western expansionism and Indian Removal, Ethnology and Empire reimagines\u003cbr\u003eU.S. literary and cultural production for future conceptions of hemispheric\u003cbr\u003eAmerican literatures.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Robert Lawrence Gunn","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48272939254011,"sku":"9781479849055","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_7d019dda-d491-489a-8b83-09f71fa949b8.jpg?v=1777609698","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/ethnology-and-empire-9781479849055","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}