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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      04 August 2010
      26 September 1986
      ISBN:
      9780511752735
      9780521328944
      9780521034524
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511752735
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.32kg, 112 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.178kg, 112 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Organisational Sociology, History, History of Native American Peoples, Sociology of Religion, Sociology
      Series:
      American Sociological Association Rose Monographs
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    Subjects:
    Organisational Sociology, History, History of Native American Peoples, Sociology of Religion, Sociology
    Series:
    American Sociological Association Rose Monographs
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    This study of the 1870 and 1890 Ghost Dance movements among North American Indians offers an innovative theory about why these movements arose when they did. Emphasizing the demographic situation of American Indians prior to the movements, Professor Thornton argues that the Ghost Dances were deliberate efforts to accomplish a demographic revitalization of American Indians following their virtual collapse. By joining the movements, he contends, tribes sought to assure survival by increasing their numbers through returning the dead to life. Thornton supports this thesis empirically by closely examining the historical context of the two movements and by assessing tribal participation in them, revealing particularly how population size and decline influenced participation among and within American Indian tribes. He also considers American Indian population change after the Ghost Dance periods and shows that participation in the movements actually did lead the way to a demographic recovery for certain tribes.

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    "...a careful, readable analysis of the demographic revitalization rationale for the 1870 and 1890 Ghost Dance movements; it makes a significant contribution to the interdisciplinary study of demographic change." Journal of Interdisciplinary History

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