War at the margins [electronic resource] : indigenous experiences in World War II / Lin Poyer.

"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 foundation...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Poyer, Lin, 1953- (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2022]
Subjects:	Indigenous peoples > Civil rights. World War, 1939-1945 > Indigenous peoples. World War, 1939-1945 > Participation, Indigenous.
Online Access:	Books at JSTOR: Open Access: 2022 (JSTOR) Project Muse Open Access ebooks: 2022 (Project MUSE @ John Hopkins University) University of Hawaii Press Open Access Books: 2024 OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks): 2022 (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) DOAB Directory of Open Access Books: 2022 (Directory of Open Access Books)
Variant Title:	War at the Margins: Indigenous Experiences in World War II
Format:	Electronic eBook

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.