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  title info:
    title: War at the Margins
    sub title: Indigenous Experiences in World War II
  name:
    name part: Poyer, Lin
    name part: 1953-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: JSTOR (Organization)
  name:
    name part: Project Muse
    role:
      role term: distributor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: hiu
    date issued: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (pages cm)
  abstract: "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 foundations for their twenty-first century emergence as players on the world's political stage. With a focus on Indigenous voices and agency, a global overview reveals the enormous range of wartime activities and impacts on these groups, connecting this work with comparative history, Indigenous studies, and anthropology. The distinctiveness of Indigenous peoples offers a valuable perspective on World War II, as those on the margins of Allied and Axis empires and nation-states were drawn in as soldiers, scouts, guides, laborers, and victims. Questions of loyalty and citizenship shaped Indigenous combat roles-from integration in national armies to service in separate ethnic units to unofficial use of their special skills, where local knowledge tilted the balance in military outcomes. Front lines crossed Indigenous territory most consequentially in northern Europe, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific Islands, but the impacts of war go well beyond combat. Like others around the world, Indigenous civilian men and women suffered bombing and invasion, displacement, forced labor, military occupation, and economic and social disruption. Infrastructure construction and demand for key resources affected even areas far from front lines. World War II dissolved empires and laid the foundation for the postcolonial world. Indigenous people in newly independent nations struggled for autonomy, while other veterans returned to home fronts still steeped in racism. National governments saw military service as evidence that Indigenous peoples wished to assimilate, but wartime experiences confirmed many communities' commitment to their home cultures and opened new avenues for activism. By century's end, Indi…
  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.
  note: Lin Poyer.
  subject:
    topic: Indigenous peoples
    topic: Civil rights
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
    topic: Participation, Indigenous
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
    topic: Indigenous peoples
  subject:
    topic: Autochtones
    topic: Droits
  subject:
    topic: Indigenous peoples
    topic: Civil rights
  subject:
    topic: Indigenous peoples
  classification: D810.I53
  classification: 940.53089/97
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Book collections on Project MUSE
  identifier: 9780824891824
  identifier: 9780824891800
  identifier: 0824891805
  identifier: 9780824891817
  identifier: 9780824891794
  identifier: 0824891791
  identifier: 0824891821
  identifier: 0824891813
  identifier: 2021062389
  identifier: 22573/ctv2nfwjzc JSTOR
  identifier: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv2ngx5f5
  record info:
    record content source: P@U
    record creation date: 211230
    record change date: 20230103223703.4
    record identifier: in00004636449
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng