Indians In the Making (http://www.amazon.com/Indians-Making-Relations-Identities-Crossroads/dp/0520226852/) by Alexandra Harmon. Disclaimer: I have not read this book. HOWEVER, I took a class from the author that was the single most interesting, most perspective-changing experience I had in six years of higher education, and has done more for my own fiction than any other single source.
The first day of lecture stands as the only time that I truly felt spellbound outside of reading good fiction, and sets a standard that I try to for in my own non-western writing. It very much changed my ideas of how to write "the other" in narrative.
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Indians In the Making (http://www.amazon.com/Indians-Making-Relations-Identities-Crossroads/dp/0520226852/) by Alexandra Harmon. Disclaimer: I have not read this book. HOWEVER, I took a class from the author that was the single most interesting, most perspective-changing experience I had in six years of higher education, and has done more for my own fiction than any other single source.
The first day of lecture stands as the only time that I truly felt spellbound outside of reading good fiction, and sets a standard that I try to for in my own non-western writing. It very much changed my ideas of how to write "the other" in narrative.