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Pauline Turner Strong is an American anthropologist specializing in literary, historical, ethnographic, media, and popular representations of Native Americans. Theoretically her work has considered colonial and postcolonial
representation Representation may refer to: Law and politics *Representation (politics), political activities undertaken by elected representatives, as well as other theories ** Representative democracy, type of democracy in which elected officials represent a ...
, identity and alterity, and
hybridity Hybridity, in its most basic sense, refers to mixture. The term originates from biology and was subsequently employed in linguistics and in racial theory in the nineteenth century. Young, Robert. ''Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture and R ...
. She has also researched intercultural captivity narratives, intercultural adoption practices, and the appropriation of Native American symbols and practices in U.S. sports and youth organizations. She received a B.A. in philosophy from Colorado College, and a Ph.D. in anthropology from the
University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chicago is consistently ranked among the b ...
, where she studied with
Raymond D. Fogelson Raymond David Fogelson (August 23, 1933 - January 20, 2020) was an American anthropologist known for his research on American Indians of the southeastern United States, especially the Cherokee. He is considered a founder of the subdiscipline of e ...
and George W. Stocking, Jr. She is professor of anthropology and women's and gender studies at the University of Texas, Austin, where she is also director of the Humanities Institute. In 2006 she received the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award from the University of Texas at Austin.


Selected works

* “‘Indian Blood’: Reflections on the Reckoning and Refiguring of Native North American Identity.” ''Cultural Anthropology'' 11, no. 4: 547-76. (1996) * “Playing Indian in the 1990s: Pocahontas and The Indian in the Cupboard.” (1998) In ''Hollywood’s Indian: The Portrayal of the Native American in Film,'' pp. 187–205. Ed. Peter C. Rollins and John E. O’Connor. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 2d. ed., 2003. * Theorizing the Hybrid. Special issue, ''Journal of American Folklore,'' vol. 112, no. 445 (1999). * ''Captive Selves, Captivating Others: The Politics and Poetics of Colonial American Captivity Narratives.'' Westview Press/Perseus Books. (1999) * "To Forget Their Tongue, Their Name, and Their Whole Relation." In ''Relative Values: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies,'' ed. Sarah Franklin and Susan McKinnon. Durham and London: Duke University Press. (2001) * “Transforming Outsiders: Captivity, Adoption, and Slavery Reconsidered.” ''A Companion to American Indian History,'' pp. 339–356. Ed. Philip J. Deloria and Neal Salisbury. Malden, MA and Oxford, U.K.: Blackwell Publishers. (2002) * “Representational Practices.” ''A Companion to the Anthropology of North American Indians,'' pp. 341–359. Ed. Thomas Biolsi. Malden, MA and Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers. (2004) * "Recent Ethnographic Research on North American Indigenous Peoples." ''Annual Review of Anthropology'' 34: 253-68. (2005) * “What is an Indian Family? The Indian Child Welfare Act and the Renascence of Tribal Sovereignty.” ''Indigenous Peoples of the United States''. Special issue: ''American Studies'' 46:3/4 (Fall-Winter 2005). * ''New Perspectives on Native North America: Cultures, Histories, and Representations.'' Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. (2006) * ''American Indians and the American Imaginary: Cultural Representation Across the Centuries.'' Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers. (2012)


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Strong, Pauline Turner American anthropologists Native American studies Critical race theory Postcolonial theorists Poststructuralists University of Texas at Austin faculty Colorado College alumni University of Chicago alumni Year of birth missing (living people) Living people