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nativism, in anthropology, social movement that proclaims the return to power of the natives of a colonized area and the resurgence of native culture, along with the decline of the colonizers. The term has also been used to refer to a widespread attitude in a society of a rejection of alien persons or culture. Nativism occurs within almost all areas of nonindustrial culture known to anthropologists. One of the earliest careful studies of nativism was that of James Mooney (1896), who studied the Ghost Dance among Native Americans of the W United States. In 1943, Ralph Linton published a brief paper on nativistic movements that served to establish the phenomenon as a special topic in anthropological studies of culture change.
BibliographySee A. Wallace, The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca (1972) and J. Higham, Strangers in the Land (1988). |
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Remember all our judgmental puritans, gunslinging desperadoes, choleric nativism, the Battling Bickersons, the gangs of New York. The recent wave of immigration has been accompanied by an ugly backlash of nativism and cultural panic. In the post-war world of the 1920s, Germanness was beaten down by nativism on the one side and dissolved by assimilation on the other. |
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