NEW! FROM THE UCLA AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES CENTER PUBLICATIONS
Gathering Native Scholars: UCLA Forty Years of American Indian Culture and Research
Edited by Kenneth Lincoln
 Gathering Native Scholars features the seminal essays published in the American Indian Culture and Research Journal which helped shape the field of Native American Studies. Edited by Kenneth Lincoln, this commemorative volume has been published in honor of the 40th anniversary of UCLA s American Indian Studies Center Press. Cherokee scholar Jace Weaver writes, "Modern Native American Studies grew out of the rich ferment of the 1960s, and AICRJ has been there almost from the start. From founders like Vine Deloria and Paula Gunn Allen to newer voices like Devon Mihesuah and David Treuer, from law to literature, to religion, to disability studies, AICRJ has seen it all. . . . Ken Lincoln has done us all a service with this anthology by reminding us just how formative the journal has been for the field."
American Indian Performing Arts: Critical Directions (Hardcover)
Edited by Hanay Geiogamah and Jaye T. Darby
 With an introduction by Jace Weaver, this collection of essays analyzes Native theater, dance, and music performances through indigenous critical lenses. Contributors to this volume include both recent and established scholars who offer provocative studies of the ways in which Native performing artists "re-present" American Indian history, culture, art forms, spiritual traditions, and/or contemporary issues in their works. Jacqueline Shea Murphy writes, "The scope is exciting, both in what the essays focus on-contemporary Native plays, an early 20th century Sun Dance opera, punk rock band musicians, turn-of-the-century jazz bands, contemporary modern dance-and also in the issues the authors raise and consider. . . . The result is a vibrant, insightful, wide-ranging, and crucial contribution to the growing discussion about this important field."
Also available: American Indian Performing Arts: Critical Directions (Paper)
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