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(book talk) Recovery of Native American Space

Posted November 3rd, 2008 by Mary
in
2008-11-13 00:00

In honor of Native American Heritage Month

the Department of Anthropology and the Native American Student Society

of the Univ. of Massachusetts Boston present a lecture by

 

Lisa Brooks (Abenaki)

author of

 

The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast

 

Lisa Brooks is assistant professor of history and literature and of folklore and mythology at Harvard University. Her new book, The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast, focuses on the role of writing as a tool of social reconstruction and land reclamation in the Native networks of the Northeast from the

colonial period to the present.

 

         Thursday, November 13, 2008, 4:00-6:00 pm

University of Massachusetts Boston
McCormack Building, 3rd Floor, Ryan Lounge

Free and open to the public.
Lecture followed by reception and book signing.

For further information, contact Prof. Amy Den Ouden,

Department of Anthropology, UMASS BOSTON

(phone: 617-287-6852; email: amy.denoude {at}  umb {dot} edu