"The Ghost Dance: Ethnohistory and Revitalization"

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Alice Beck Kehoe's The Ghost Dance: Ethnohistory and Revitalization is a complex ethnohistorical work with a dual purpose. This paper argues that this duality is central to the main argument of the author and situates the work within the broader crisis of representation and relevance that defines the field of cultural anthropology in the early 21st century.

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"Alice Beck Kehoe's The Ghost Dance: Ethnohistory and Revitalization is a complex ethnohistorical work with a dual purpose. As this essay will argue, this duality is central to the main argument of the author and situates the work within the broader crisis of representation and relevance that defines the field of cultural anthropology in the early 21st century. As will be seen, while in the first half of her text Kehoe focuses on an analysis of the Ghost Dance phenomenon in terms of how American Indian societies have coped with radical social, economic and political change."

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