{"product_id":"native-american-freemasonry-associationalism-and-performance-in-america-hardcover","title":"Native American Freemasonry: Associationalism and Performance in America - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoy Porter\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFreemasonry has played a significant role in the history of Native Americans since the colonial era--a role whose extent and meaning are fully explored for the first time in this book. The work's overarching concern is with how Masonry met specific social and personal needs, a theme developed across three significant periods of membership: the revolutionary era, the last third of the nineteenth century, and the years following the First World War. Joy Porter places Freemasonry into historical context, revealing its social and political impact as a transatlantic phenomenon at the heart of the colonizing process. She then explores its meaning for many of the key Native leaders over time, for the ethnic groups who sought to make connections with it, and for the bulk of its American membership--the white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant middle class.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePorter contends that Freemasonry offered special access to Native Americans through its performance of ritual, an assertion borne out by a wealth of contemporary manuscripts, newspapers, pamphlets, Masonic sermons, orations, and lodge records and writings by Masonic historians and antiquarians gleaned from archives in New York, Philadelphia, Oklahoma, California, and London. Through these documents, she demonstrates that over time, Freemasonry became a significant avenue for the exchange, and perhaps even cocreation, of cultural forms by Indians and non-Indians.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoy Porter is an associate dean and senior lecturer at Swansea University in Wales. She is the coauthor of \u003cem\u003eCompeting Voices from Native America: Fighting Words\u003c\/em\u003e and the coeditor of \u003cem\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoy Porter\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of Indigenous history at the University of Hull, UK. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eNative American Environmentalism \u003c\/i\u003e(Nebraska, 2014) and To Be Indian: Indian Identity and the Life of Arthur Caswell Parker, the coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, and the editor of \u003ci\u003eCompeting Voices from Native America\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePlace and Native American Indian History and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 8.6 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42722960080959,"sku":"9780803225473","price":116.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/5ce92bfbbb4e66d210d28f76f60f4841.webp?v=1765097529","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/native-american-freemasonry-associationalism-and-performance-in-america-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}