Going Native in the Academy: Choosing the Exotic over the Critical.

Marker, Michael

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Publication Date: 1998

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Going Native in the Academy: Choosing the Exotic over the Critical.

Marker, Michael

Anthropology & Education Quarterly, v29 n4 p473-80 Dec 1998

Examines some of the problems and contradictions that arise when nonnative instructors attempt to perform aboriginal ceremonies and rituals in the higher-education classroom. Such practices often promote an indulgence in the exotic, rather than taking a more genuine approach to the history and reality of native people. (SLD)

Descriptors: American Indians, Ceremonies, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Background, Higher Education, History, Indigenous Populations, Religious Cultural Groups, Teaching Methods

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Language: English

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