A Mutually Comprehensible World?: Native Americans, Europeans, and Play in Eighteenth-Century America

Cohen, Kenneth J.

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“…For the major mode of acculturation, the direct shaping of one culture by another through which civilization develops, has been conquest." 20 In stark contrast to Bellin and Roach, Diamond argued that any diffusion of cultural traits is evidence of struggle and to view it in any other terms is false if not dangerous. He cautioned, "When…as generally happens-this diffusion is traced as an abstract exchange, somehow justified by the universal balance sheet of the imperial civilization, the assault by civilized upon primitive or traditional societies is masked, or its implications evaded."…”

Section: The Pitfalls Of the "Performative" Approachmentioning

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Native American Indian Freemasonry and Its Relation to the Performative Turn within Contemporary American Scholarship

Porter¹

2012

J. Am. Stud.

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This article is informed by recent work by the author unearthing the histories of Native American Indian Freemasons from the Revolutionary era to the present. Given that performed ritual has always been key to Masonic practice, it was initially supposed that Indian performance within Masonry could be explained using the same performative analytical lens that has recently been applied to various other aspects of the American and American Indian past. However, this research reveals that the performance paradigm has important limitations when applied in colonial or postcolonial contexts and that these have a particular significance when we evaluate the Native American fraternal experience of Freemasonry. This article explores the specifics of recent “performative” analyses and argues that whilst performance offers potentially revealing and enabling new means of comprehending Indian and non-Indian interaction, it also carries with it risks against which we must remain vigilant. It argues that the performance paradigm is useful only to the extent to which it can differentiate between positive cultural interaction and negative cultural appropriation. It concludes by suggesting that it is only when we conceive of culture as being essentially imaginative that performance as an analytical paradigm fully functions.

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Native American Indian Freemasonry and Its Relation to the Performative Turn within Contemporary American Scholarship

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2012

J. Am. Stud.

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Aboriginal peoples in North American and euro‐north American leisure

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2007

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He came, He saw and He observed – An Analysis of Reis door Noord Amerika by Pehr Kalm

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2014

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He came, He saw and He observed-An Analysis of Reis door Noord Amerika by Pehr Kalm Julianne Lindner "On the 30th October we were ready to start our journey as soon as the sun rose. Close to the inn, where we spend the night, we were ferried over a river in a half rotten vessel. This is where the state of New York begins. Most of the people living here were Dutch, or others who settled down here while the Dutch were still in charge. Nowadays they were mixed with English and other Europeans, most of them spoke English. The view of the landscape was very pleasant, the view is not restricted by forests, and we could mostly see cultivated land." (Kalm, 1772, p. 102-103). A Swedish scientist in North America According to Carl Thompson, who teaches on English literature and Travel Culture, travel accounts are a quite popular genre these days. Just think about the television series by Michael Palin and Paul Theroux. Not only contemporary writings (or programmes) are in the centre of attention, but also the ones from the past. It creates curiosity and an illusion that there are still places in the world that are not yet discovered. Also the academic world pays growing attention to travel writings. The main aims for that research is to better understand the colonial and postcolonial times. The accounts show the activities of the travellers and the kind of ideas that were incentives for their journeys. Already at 3 MaRBLe Research Papers 60 the beginning of a travel the traveller encounters "otherness" and difference from his own environment. In most writings a distinction between "us & them" can be found. This happens often in the form of stereotypes. As a result the genre of travel accounts has been seen as a morally dubious form of literature (Thompson, 2011, p. 1-9). The quotation above stems from a travel account, Reis door Noord Amerika, written by MaRBLe Research Papers 62 After his trip he did supervise some dissertations that were related to this travel (Chinard, 1947, p.55). Kalm continued to teach at the university of Åbo and received several academic honors. Later on he became a Lutheran clergyman, like his father was before him. He died in 1779 (Jarell, 2000).

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A Mutually Comprehensible World?: Native Americans, Europeans, and Play in Eighteenth-Century America

Cited by 3 publications

References 40 publications

Native American Indian Freemasonry and Its Relation to the Performative Turn within Contemporary American Scholarship

Native American Indian Freemasonry and Its Relation to the Performative Turn within Contemporary American Scholarship

Aboriginal peoples in North American and euro‐north American leisure

He came, He saw and He observed – An Analysis of Reis door Noord Amerika by Pehr Kalm

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