Pauline Turner Strong
Encyclopedia
Pauline Turner Strong is an American anthropologist specializing in literary, historical, ethnographic, media, and popular representations of Native Americans
. Theoretically her work has considered colonial and postcolonial representation
, identity and alterity
, and hybridity
. She has also researched intercultural captivity narratives, intercultural adoption practices, and the appropriation
of Native American symbols and practices in U.S. sports and youth organizations.
She received a B.A. in philosophy from Colorado College
, and a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Chicago
, where she studied with Raymond D. Fogelson
and George W. Stocking, Jr.
.
She is associate professor of anthropology and women's and gender studies at the University of Texas, Austin, where she is also director of the Humanities Institute.In 2006 she received the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award from the University of Texas at Austin.
Native Americans in the United States
Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples in North America within the boundaries of the present-day continental United States, parts of Alaska, and the island state of Hawaii. They are composed of numerous, distinct tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of which survive as...
. Theoretically her work has considered colonial and postcolonial representation
Representation (arts)
Representation is the use of signs that stand in for and take the place of something else. It is through representation that people organize the world and reality through the act of naming its elements...
, identity and alterity
Alterity
Alterity is a philosophical term meaning "otherness", strictly being in the sense of the other of two . In the phenomenological tradition it is usually understood as the entity in contrast to which an identity is constructed, and it implies the ability to distinguish between self and not-self, and...
, and hybridity
Hybridity
Hybridity refers in its most basic sense to mixture. The term originates from biology and was subsequently employed in linguistics and in racial theory in the nineteenth century. Its contemporary uses are scattered across numerous academic disciplines and is salient in popular culture...
. She has also researched intercultural captivity narratives, intercultural adoption practices, and the appropriation
Cultural appropriation
Cultural appropriation is the adoption of some specific elements of one culture by a different cultural group. It describes acculturation or assimilation, but can imply a negative view towards acculturation from a minority culture by a dominant culture. It can include the introduction of forms of...
of Native American symbols and practices in U.S. sports and youth organizations.
She received a B.A. in philosophy from Colorado College
Colorado College
The Colorado College is a private liberal arts college in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States, in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. It was founded in 1874 by Thomas Nelson Haskell...
, and a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Chicago
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
, where she studied with Raymond D. Fogelson
Raymond D. Fogelson
Raymond D. Fogelson is an American anthropologist known for his research on American Indians of the southeastern United States, especially the Cherokee. He is considered a founder of the subdiscipline of ethnohistory....
and George W. Stocking, Jr.
George W. Stocking, Jr.
George W. Stocking, Jr., is an American scholar noted for his scholarship on the history of anthropology.Trained in history and the humanities as well as anthropology, he attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a student of A...
.
She is associate professor of anthropology and women's and gender studies at the University of Texas, Austin, where she is also director of the Humanities Institute
Selected works
- Kan, Sergei A.Sergei KanSergei A. Kan is an American anthropologist known for his research with and writings on the Tlingit people of southeast Alaska, focusing on the potlatch and on the role of the Russian Orthodox Church in Tlingit communities....
, and Pauline Turner Strong, eds. (2006) New Perspectives on Native North America: Cultures, Histories, and Representations. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. - (2005) “What is an Indian Family? The Indian Child Welfare ActIndian Child Welfare ActThe Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 is a Federal law that governs jurisdiction over the removal of Native American children from their families.-General:...
and the Renascence of Tribal Sovereignty.” Indigenous Peoples of the United States. Special issue: American Studies 46:3/4 (Fall-Winter 2005). - (2005) "Recent Ethnographic Research on North American Indigenous Peoples." Annual Review of Anthropology 34: 253-68.
- (2004) “Representational Practices.” A Companion to the Anthropology of North American Indians, pp. 341–359. Ed. Thomas Biolsi. Malden, MA and Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers.
- (2002) “Transforming Outsiders: Captivity, Adoption, and Slavery Reconsidered.” A Companion to American Indian History, pp. 339–356. Ed. Philip J. Deloria and Neal Salisbury. Malden, MA and Oxford, U.K.: Blackwell Publishers.
- (2001) "To Forget Their Tongue, Their Name, and Their Whole Relation: ," in Relative Values: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies, ed. Sarah Franklin and susan McKinnon. Durham and London: Duke University Press.
- (1999) Captive Selves, Captivating Others: The Politics and Poetics of Colonial American Captivity Narratives. Westview Press/Perseus Books.
- Kapchan, Deborah A., and Pauline Turner Strong, eds. (1999) Theorizing the Hybrid. Special issue, Journal of American Folklore, vol. 112, no. 445 (1999).
- (1998) “Playing Indian in the 1990s: Pocahontas and The Indian in the Cupboard.” In Hollywood’s Indian: The Portrayal of the Native American in Film, pp. 187–205. Ed. Peter C. Rollins and John E. O’Connor. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 2d. ed., 2003.
- Strong, Pauline Turner and Barrik Van WinkleBarrik Van WinkleBarrik Van Winkle is an American linguistic and legal anthropologist who has done research on the language and culture of the Washoe Nation and on gang violence in the U.S....
(1996) “‘Indian Blood’: Reflections on the Reckoning and Refiguring of Native North American Identity.” Cultural Anthropology 11, no. 4: 547-76.