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Consuming changing woman :Euroamerican commodification of Dine land and religion.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Consuming changing woman :
Reminder of title:	Euroamerican commodification of Dine land and religion.
Author:	Aldred, Lisa.
Description:	210 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Judith B. Farquhar.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-12, Section: A, page: 4488.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International60-12A.
Subject:	Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9954594
ISBN:	0599572353

Consuming changing woman :Euroamerican commodification of Dine land and religion.
Aldred, Lisa.

Consuming changing woman :Euroamerican commodification of Dine land and religion.[electronic resource] - 210 p.

Adviser: Judith B. Farquhar.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1999.

The dissertation concludes that the judicial decisions regarding Native American land as a commodity and the New Age commercialization of Native American religions are shaped out of the same consumerist worldview. The analytical construct of commodity fetishism is used to flesh out this conclusion more fully.

ISBN: 0599572353Subjects--Topical Terms:

212447
Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Consuming changing woman :Euroamerican commodification of Dine land and religion.
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520 # $a This dissertation explores the commodification of Native American land and religion through an ethnographic case-study of the federal government's attempt to relocate the Diné (Navajo). In 1986, 1 worked as an attorney for the Big Mountain Diné who argued relocation violated their First Amendment rights because their religion is so enmeshed in their homelands, it cannot effectively be practiced elsewhere. The court acknowledged the harsh impact of relocation on Diné religious practice, but nevertheless held commercial value of land outweighs Native American spiritual interests. During Diné efforts at resisting relocation, a number of Euroamerican New Agers poured onto Big Mountain to ostensibly “help the Diné”. Although generally objecting to the view of land as commodity, many New Agers nevertheless participated in the commodification of Diné religion by selling and purchasing mass-marketed Native American ceremonial objects, dubious books on do-it-yourself shamanism, and week-end vision quests held for pricey fees, usually by white “plastic medicine men”.
520 # $a This work closely examines Diné views of the relationship between religion and land, concluding that they do not view land as a commodity, but a sacred living entity, which cannot be bought, sold, or exchanged for other land (in sharp contrast to the federal government's view). The court's decision that commercial interest outweighs spiritual interest in land is deconstructed in-depth to discover its underlying sociocultural biases. This analysis includes a critical examination of historical Anglo-American property rights law. The work then analyzes New Age commodification of Native American religion, including Native Americans' criticisms and New Age defenses. The work asserts that despite its counter-cultural claims, the New Age movement articulates well with capitalist ideology. Moreover, New Age entrepreneurs have entered mainstream markets and New Age strategies have seeped into corporate America.
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