War at the Margins Indigenous Experiences in World War II

"War at the Margins offers a broad comparative view of the impact of World War II on Indigenous societies. Using historical and ethnographic sources, Lin Poyer examines how Indigenous communities emerged from the trauma of the wartime era with social forms and cultural ideas that laid the found...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Poyer, Lin
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Honolulu, Baltimore, Md. University of Hawaiʻi Press, Project MUSE 202200002022, 2022
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Empires, Nation-States, and Global War at the Margins
  • Military Service, Citizenship, and Loyalties
  • Combat in Indigenous Homelands
  • War Far from Home: Serving Abroad
  • Strangers in the Homeland
  • Deploying the "Primitive": Images and Realities of Indigenous Soldiers
  • "Martial Myths" and Native Realities
  • Collateral Damages: Civilian Life in Wartime
  • Working at War
  • Building and Destroying the World through War
  • Indigenous Status in the Postwar World
  • Indigenous Veterans in Combatant Nations
  • The Pasts and Futures of World War II for Indigenous Communities
  • Beyond Nation-States