"Centered on the volatile issue of the repatriation of Native American skeletal remains, Chancers follows a group of student Solar Dancers who set out to resurrect native remains housed in the Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley." "Possessed...

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1. Verfasser:	Vizenor, Gerald Robert 1934- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Norman Univ. of Oklahoma Press 2000
Schriftenreihe:	American Indian literature and critical studies series 36
Schlagworte:	Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropology > Fiction Funde Indianer Antiquities > Collection and preservation > Fiction Cults > Fiction Indians of North America > Fiction Indians of North America > Antiquities > Fiction Sun-dance > Fiction Berkeley (Calif.) > Fiction Horror fiction Occult fiction
Zusammenfassung:	"Centered on the volatile issue of the repatriation of Native American skeletal remains, Chancers follows a group of student Solar Dancers who set out to resurrect native remains housed in the Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley." "Possessed by the demonic wiindigoo, a mythic monster, the Solar Dancers, in a gruesome ritual, sacrifice faculty and administrators associated with the collection and storage of native remains. The Dancers replace stored native skulls with those of the academics, and the resurrected natives become the Chancers." "The Round Dancers, humane and erotic trickster figures, are natural opponents of the morbid Solar Dancers. The war between the two groups comes to a comic conclusion at a graduation ceremony attended by Pocahontas; Phoebe Hearst; Alfred Kroeber, the anthropologist; Ishi, the native who actually lived and worked in the university museum; and many Chancers."--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:	159 S.
ISBN:	0806132663