Open AccessThe Cosmopolite Indian: History, Geography, and Multiplicity
Author(s) -
Nicholls Heidi
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
student anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2330-7625
DOI - 10.1002/j.sda2.20100201.0004
Subject(s) - ideology , politics , indian ocean , cosmopolitanism , center (category theory) , gender studies , space (punctuation) , geography , sociology , economic geography , media studies , genealogy , history , political science , law , linguistics , oceanography , chemistry , crystallography , geology , philosophy
Using the lens of the cosmopolitan, this paper looks to the legislative, economic, and political ideologies creating the notion of the u/Urban Indian who I argue to be a cosmopolite. While taking the reader through a brief history of the emergence of Indian centers as Indian space or structure, I use the example of one Indian Center, in particular located in the Midwest, as a site of the cosmopolitan, focusing on the center's annual powwow. The powwow sponsored by the center, serves as the structure that encompasses the individual circulating from differing nations, engaging in a mutual respect of Pan‐Indian‐ness, both converging and diverging, creating a home abroad and an abroad home for the cosmopolite Indian.