James F Brooks

The University of Georgia, Gable Chair in American History, Faculty Member

St. John's College, Santa Fe, Liberal Arts, Visiting Scholar

University of California, Santa Barbara, History and Anthropology, Faculty Member

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Mesa of Sorrows: A History of the Awat'ovi Massacre (Feb. 2016)

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Linking the Histories of Slavery in North America

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Keystone Nations: Indigenous Peoples and Salmon across the North Pacific

One of the central themes of anthropology has been the role of agriculture in changing not only r... more One of the central themes of anthropology has been the role of agriculture in changing not only relationships within societies but the structure of cultures. The "neolithic revolution" refers to the transition from foraging to farming in which subsistence increasingly came from domesticated plants and animals (Childe 1936), and the urban revolution followed as agricultural surplus supported the expanding state. Building on the theme that technological change in food production, metallurgy, and transportation structure society, a "science of culture" further elaborated the role of agriculture in the "evolution of society" (White 1949(White , 1959. In the twentyfirst century, this materialist perspective (Harris 1979(Harris , 1980 receives less attention. More common is a critique of power, symbolism, discourse, and structural elements that is used to analyze the impacts and implications of industrial agricultural practices, address the disadvantaging of Indigenous and minority peoples, identify factors affecting the agency of actors, and review the neoliberal pressure for market-based solutions (Bourdieu 1991;

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Small Worlds: Method, Meaning, and Narrative in Microhistory

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Preface: A Peculiar Alchemy A Centennial History of SAR (2007)

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Captives & Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands

JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, a... more JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected].

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Confounding the Color Line: the Indian-Black Experience in North America

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Women and Gender in the American West

Over the last twenty-five to thirty years, historians have made great strides in reconfiguring th... more Over the last twenty-five to thirty years, historians have made great strides in reconfiguring the American West. Emphasizing, in particular, its multi-layered social and economic dynamics, they also explore the significance of gender and culture in the region. Editors Mary Ann Irwin and James F. Brooks participate in this recent historiographic shift in their collection of essays, Women and Gender in the American West. This revisionist history critically investigates women's roles in a place that, based on traditional histories, has been dominated by men-a place that offered itself to mythologizing maleness and masculinity. In focusing on women's experiences of the West and, furthermore, women of various racial backgrounds, the collection targets two crucial objectives: to introduce readers to "the agency, the variety, the vitality of the women we now see peopling the West" and to participate in an "ongoing discussion about how to write the history of western women" (2).

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Andele: the Mexican-Kiowa Captive

Early in 1867 Kiowa chief Many Bears paid the Mescalero Apache one mule, two buffalo robes, and a... more Early in 1867 Kiowa chief Many Bears paid the Mescalero Apache one mule, two buffalo robes, and a red blanket to purchase ten-year-old Jose Andres Martinez. Abducted near his home in Las Vegas, New Mexico, in October 1866, he became Many Bears's grandson, Andele. He quickly adapted to his new life, grew to manhood among the Kiowa, took part in Kiowa raiding parties when he turned sixteen, and three times married Kiowa women. Confined to a reservation in Oklahoma after 1875, Andele in the 1880s sought to reclaim his former life and returned to his family in Las Vegas. But in 1889, feeling "his interests were all identified with the Kiowa, and that he had learned to love them," he returned to the reservation, taught industrial arts at the agency school, and aided the Kiowa in defense of their lands. In the 1890s Andele began serving as a resource to a generation of anthropologists studying Kiowa and Apache society. His captivity narrative, published in 1899 by the Methodist missionary J. J. Methvin, is an invaluable eyewitness description of Plains Indians.

Papers by James F Brooks

Awat'ovi Review Le Monde

Le Monde, 2018

Review of French Edition, Mesa of Sorrows

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Kessell.Spain in the Southwest Review.WHQ

Western Historical Quarterly, 2003

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Corporate Lives: New Perspectives on the Social Life of the Corporate Form: Wenner-Gren Symposium Supplement 3

Current Anthropology , 2011

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Roberts, Black Freedom on Native Land, JCWERev

Journal of the Civil War Era, 2022

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Seductions and Betrayals: la frontera gauchesque

Small Worlds: Method, Meaning, and Narrative in Microhistory, 2008

In 1949 the lion of Argentine literature, Jorge Luis Borges, published an essay of historical and... more In 1949 the lion of Argentine literature, Jorge Luis Borges, published an essay of historical and philosophical reflection entitled the "Story of the Warrior and the Captive Maiden." Using one of his trademark devices, he juxtaposed two vignettes vastly separated by time and culture; for Borges, the conflation of these seemingly disconnected stories might reveal their poetic unity. We first meet Droctulft, a barbarian warrior, who in the sixth century AD is sweeping down the plains of Italy with his Germanic tribesmen to lay waste the Holy Roman Empire. Yet as Droctulft stands before the gates of Ravenna "suddenly blinded and renewed by the City," he comes to understand, in Borges's words, "that this city [was] worth more than his gods and the faith he [had] sworn to and all the marshlands of Germany." Deserting the barbarian host, Droctulft dies in the defense of Ravenna. He could not have read the grateful Latin epitaph the people of Ravenna chiseled upon his tomb: CONTEMPSIT CAROS DUM NOS AMAT ILLE PARENTES, HANC PATRIAM REPUTANS ESSE, RAVENNA, SUAM (He was contemptuous of his beloved ancestors while he loved us like parents, believing Ravenna to be his motherland).

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Reflections and Refractions from the Southwest Borderlands

Native American Adoption, Captivity, and Slavery in Changing Contexts, M. Carocci et al. (eds.), 2012

Mexico, there thrives a "living history" museum known as El Rancho de Las Golondrinas (The Ranch ... more Mexico, there thrives a "living history" museum known as El Rancho de Las Golondrinas (The Ranch of the Swallows). Its core buildings date from 1710, when the rancho served as a paraje , or resting place, along el camino real de tierra adentro (the royal road of the interior lands) that connected Mexico City to its far distant colonial settlements in the province of Nuevo Mexico. Established by Miguel Vega y Coca, the rancho flourished and grew with the increase in trade through the era of the Bourbon Reforms and, especially, after the 1821 opening of the St. Louis to Chihuahua "Santa Fe Trail" that linked American and Mexican producers and consumers in a vibrant international trade. Those familiar with the architecture of the Southwest might see echoes of the Spanish and North African countryside in the rancho today, a complex covering more than 160 acres and featuring a fortified, adobe placita (compound residence), complete with defensive tower; a nineteenth-century home and all of its outbuildings, a molasses mill, a threshing ground, several primitive water mills, a blacksmith shop, a wheelwright shop, a winery, and extensive vineyards (figure E.1). Many of the essential elements of Spanish and Mexican lifeways may be seen reenacted on the museum's programs, from sheep shearing to wool weaving, from corn and wheat fields to grain milling, from Catholic blessings of the acequias (irrigation ditches) in the spring to autumn harvest festivals replete with burrows grinding sorghum into molasses. But one aspect of southwestern life is not relived for the visiting public, although gestured within the fortified compound. In one M. Carocci et al. (eds.), Native American Adoption, Captivity, and Slavery in Changing Contexts

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Lest We Go in Search of Our Lands and Our Nation: Customary Justice and Colonial Law in New Mexico

The Many Legalities of Early America, 2001

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An Unholy Union: Southern and Western History (Western Historical Quarterly [PAGE PROOFS])

Western Historical Quarterly, 2021

Guest Editor's Introduction to special issue on relationship between (North American) Southern an... more

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Nacion Genizara (Review Essay [PAGE PROOFS])

Journal of American Ethnic History, 2021

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History, Memory, and Marketplace (Editor's Corner, THE PUBLIC HISTORIAN [Page Proofs])

The Public Historian, 2021

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An Unholy Union: Southern & Western History [PAGE PROOFS]

Journal of the Civil War Era, 2021

Guest Editor's Introduction to special issue on relationship between (North American) Southern an... more

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Mesa of Sorrows: A History of the Awat'ovi Massacre (Feb. 2016)

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Linking the Histories of Slavery in North America

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Keystone Nations: Indigenous Peoples and Salmon across the North Pacific

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Small Worlds: Method, Meaning, and Narrative in Microhistory

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Preface: A Peculiar Alchemy A Centennial History of SAR (2007)

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Captives & Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands

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Confounding the Color Line: the Indian-Black Experience in North America

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Women and Gender in the American West

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Andele: the Mexican-Kiowa Captive

Awat'ovi Review Le Monde

Le Monde, 2018

Review of French Edition, Mesa of Sorrows

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Kessell.Spain in the Southwest Review.WHQ

Western Historical Quarterly, 2003

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Corporate Lives: New Perspectives on the Social Life of the Corporate Form: Wenner-Gren Symposium Supplement 3

Current Anthropology , 2011

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Roberts, Black Freedom on Native Land, JCWERev

Journal of the Civil War Era, 2022

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Seductions and Betrayals: la frontera gauchesque

Small Worlds: Method, Meaning, and Narrative in Microhistory, 2008

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Reflections and Refractions from the Southwest Borderlands

Native American Adoption, Captivity, and Slavery in Changing Contexts, M. Carocci et al. (eds.), 2012

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Lest We Go in Search of Our Lands and Our Nation: Customary Justice and Colonial Law in New Mexico

The Many Legalities of Early America, 2001

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An Unholy Union: Southern and Western History (Western Historical Quarterly [PAGE PROOFS])

Western Historical Quarterly, 2021

Guest Editor's Introduction to special issue on relationship between (North American) Southern an... more

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Nacion Genizara (Review Essay [PAGE PROOFS])

Journal of American Ethnic History, 2021

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History, Memory, and Marketplace (Editor's Corner, THE PUBLIC HISTORIAN [Page Proofs])

The Public Historian, 2021

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An Unholy Union: Southern & Western History [PAGE PROOFS]

Journal of the Civil War Era, 2021

Guest Editor's Introduction to special issue on relationship between (North American) Southern an... more

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Caught in the Maelstrom: The Indian Nations in the Civil War

Civil War Book Review 22:3, 2020

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Burdens Borne, and Raised (Editor's Corner, THE PUBLIC HISTORIAN 42:4 [Page Proofs])

THE PUBLIC HISTORIAN, 2020

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Footprints of Hopi History: (Review Essay)

Winterthur Portfolio (Fall), 2020

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Abiding Time (Editor's Corner, THE PUBLIC HISTORIAN 42:3 2020 [PAGE PROOFS])

The Public Historian, 2020

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Governing Bodies (Review Essay) NEW MEXICO HISTORICAL REVIEW 95:2 (2020)

New Mexico Historical Review, 2020

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The Twofold Absence (Editor's Corner, THE PUBLIC HISTORIAN 42.2 2020 [Page Proofs])

The Public Historian, 2020

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Genealogies (Editor's Corner, THE PUBLIC HISTORIAN 42:1 2020 [PAGE PROOFS])

The Public Historian, 2020

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Performances (Editor's Corner, THE PUBLIC HISTORIAN, 41:4 2019 [PAGE PROOFS])

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Full Spectrum (Editor's Corner, THE PUBLIC HISTORIAN, 41:3 2019 [PAGE PROOFS])

The Public Historian, 2019

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INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND SALMON OF THE NORTHERN PACIFIC: Slide Show [2010]

The histories and futures of Indigenous peoples and salmon are inextricably bound across the vast... more The histories and futures of Indigenous peoples and salmon are inextricably bound across the vast ocean expanse and rugged coastlines of the North Pacific. Keystone Nations addresses this enmeshment and the marriage of the biological and social sciences that have led to the research discussed in this book. Salmon stocks and Indigenous peoples across the northern Pacific region represent a significance beyond their size in maintaining the viability and legitimacy of ecological and political systems. Both species’ futures are simultaneously a matter of the conservation concerns of natural scientists and the political agenda of Indigenous sovereignty movements that arc across the northern hemisphere. If wild salmon vanish in the North Pacific, as they largely have in the North Atlantic, their absence will herald the cascading failure of a complete marine system. If Indigenous peoples vanish from the North Pacific, as they largely have in the North Atlantic, their absence will sound the failure of the world’s dominant political powers to recognize the human right to cultural expression and survival.

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Vital Exchanges: Community-centered Strategies in the Public Humanities (Chama Valley Case)

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