Author: Braroe, Niels Winther
Title: Indian & White: Self-Image and Interaction in a Canadian Plains Community
Description: Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1975. orig.cloth. 22x14cm, x, 205 pp, Slight bump to head of spine. In a torn dustwrapper.. 8 pages of photoplates. Minor rubbing. Page-edge soil. Good+. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: A Problem and a Wedge. Self-image and Spoiled Identities. The Meeting of Cultures. Traditional Approaches; Methods and Theories. The Fieldwork. Problems of Acceptance. Methods. The Impressionistic approach. Theories. Symbolic Interaction. The Social Drama. Profanation of the Self; The Present. The Town of Short Grass. The Reserve Community. Indians and the Government; Wild Red Indians. The Cree in Canadian History. Whiskey Traders and Mounties. Early Days at Short Grass; The Preservation of Self. Self-Sacrifice. Situational Interaction. Shiftless Indians. Days in Town. Mendicant Indians. Trespassing Indians. Putting Indians in Their Place; Covering. The Concealment of Profane Images. Indian Names. Indian Lore. Noble Savage, Ignoble Indian. Drunken Indians; Indian Givers. Plains Philanthropists. What's Mine is Yours (and Vice Versa). Avoidance of Sharing. Stingy People. Different Attitudes toward Sharing; Small Gains. Conning the Con Man. Wit's End. Panhandling. Incorrigible Indians. White Roles for the Indian. Containment; Interpretations. A Dual Moral Universe. Pluralistic Ignorance. A Complementarity of Moral Affronts. Society and the Assignment of Moral Worth. Problems for the Future.

Keywords: Cultural Anthropology, Native Americans, Canadian Canada, American Indians, Sociology Ethnicity, Ethnography, Social History, Ethnology Race, Ethnic Minorities