Harald E. L. Prins - Selected Publications

Selected Publications

• "Two George Washington Medals: Missing Links in the Chain of Friendship between the U.S. and the Wabanaki Confederacy." Pp. 9–11. The Medal (British Museum, 1985)
• "A Wabanaki Renaissance?: Political Movement among Micmacs and Maliseets." (in Dutch) Pp. 108–44. Terugkeer van een Verdwijnend Volk. (eds. T. Lemaire and F. Wojciechowski, 1985)
• "Micmacs and Maliseets in the St. Lawrence River Valley." Pp. 263–78. Papers of the Seventeenth Algonquian Conference. (ed. W. Cowan, 1986)
• "Norridgewock: Village Translocation on the New England-Acadian Frontier." Pp. 137–58. Man in the Northeast, No.33 (with B. Bourque, 1987).
• Tribulations of a Border Tribe: Discourse on the Political Ecology of the Aroostook Band of Micmacs (16th-20th Centuries). (1988)
• "American Indians and the Ethnocinematic Complex: From Native Participation to Production Control." Pp. 80–90. Eyes Across the Water. (R. Boonzajer Flaes, 1989)
• "The Anthropologist as 'Trickster': Critical Reflection and Political Action in Anthropology." (in Dutch). Pp. 174–87. Natuur en Cultuur. (eds., R. Corbey & P. v.d. Grijp, 1990)
• "Cornfields at Meductic: Ethnic and Territorial Configurations in Colonial Acadia. Pp.55-72. Man in the Northeast, No.44 (1992).
• "To the Land of the Mistigoches: American Indians Traveling to Europe in the Age of Exploration." Pp. 175–95. Am. Indian and Culture and Research Journal, Vol.17 (1993).
• American Beginnings: Exploration, Culture, and Cartography in the Land of Norumbega. (co-ed. with E. Baker et al., 1994)
• "Children of Gluskap: Wabanaki Indians on the Eve of the European Invasion." Pp. 165–211. American Beginnings. (eds. W. Baker et al., 1994)
• "Neo-Traditions in Native Communities: Sweatlodge and Sundance among the Micmac Today." Pp. 383–94. Proceedings of the 25th Algonquian Conference. (ed. W. Cowan, 1994)
• "Turmoil on the Wabanaki Frontier, 1524-1678." Pp. 97–119. Maine: The Pine Tree State from Prehistory to Present. (ed. R. Judd, 1995)
• "Tribal Network and Migrant Labor: Mi'kmaq Indians as Seasonal Workers in Aroostook's Potato Fields (1870-1980)." Pp. 45–65. Native Americans and Wage Labor. (eds. A. Littlefield and M. Knack, 1996)
• The Mi'kmaq: Resistance, Accommodation and Cultural Survival. (Harcourt Brace, 1996)
• "Chief Rawandagon alias Robin Hood: Native 'Lord of Misrule' in the Maine Wilderness." Pp. 93–115. Northeastern Indian Lives, 1632-1816. (ed. R. Grumet, 1996)
• "Walking the Medicine Line: Molly Ockett, A Pigwacket Doctor." (with B. McBride) Pp. 321–47.Northeastern Indian Lives, 1632-1816. (ed. R. Grumet, 1996)
• "The Paradox of Primitivism: Native Rights and the Problem of Imagery in Cultural Survival Films." Pp. 243–66. Visual Anthropology Vol.9 (1997).
• "Chief Big Thunder (1827-1906): The Life of a Penobscot Trickster." Pp. 140–58. Maine History Vol.37 (1998).
• "Storm Clouds over Wabanakiak: Confederacy Diplomacy until Dummer’s Treaty (1727)" http://www.wabanaki.com/Harald_Prins.htm
• "A Handful of Ashes: Reflections on Tristes Tropiques." Pp. 94–99. Contemporary Cultures and Societies of Latin America. (ed. Dwight R. Heath, 2001)
• "The Crooked Path of Dummer's Treaty: Anglo-Wabanaki Diplomacy and the Quest for Aboriginal Rights." Pp. 360–77. Papers of the 33rd Algonquian Conference (ed. H.C. Wolfart, 2002)
• The Origins of Visual Anthropology. Visual Anthropology Review (co-ed. with Jay Ruby, 2002)
• "Visual Media and the Primitivist Perplex." Pp. 58–74. Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain. (ed. by F. Ginsburg et al., 2002)
• "Visual Anthropology." Pp. 505–25. A Companion to the Anthropology of American Indians. (ed. by T. Biolsi, 2004)
• The Essence of Anthropology. (1st ed., with W. Haviland et al., 2006)
• "Pragmatic Idealism in Challenging Structural Power: Reflections on Advocacy Anthropology." Pp. 183–200. Ethik, Ethos, Ethnos: Aspekte und Probleme Interkultureller Kritik. (ed., A. Hornbacher, 2006)
• Evolution and Prehistory: The Human Challenge. (8th ed., with W. Haviland et al., 2007)
• Cultural Anthropology: The Human Challenge. (12th ed., with W. Haviland et al., 2007)
• "Vers un monde sans mal: Alfred Métraux, un anthropologue à l'UNESCO." Pp. 115–25. 60 Ans d'Histoire de l'Unesco. Paris: UNESCO, 2005 (with E. Krebs)
• "Edmund Carpenter: A Trickster's Exploration in Culture & Media." (with J. Bishop). Pp. 207–46. Memories of the Origins of Ethnographic Film. (ed. by B. Engelbrecht, 2007)
• Asticou's Island Domain: Wabanaki Peoples at Mount Desert Island 1500-2000. Boston: Northeast Region Ethnography Program. National Park Service, U.S. Dept of the Interior 2007. (2 vols, with B. McBride). Digitally published on National Park Service website: http://www.nps.gov/acad/historyculture/ethnography.htm
• Indians in Eden: Wabanakis and Rusticators on Maine's Mt.Desert Island, 1840s-1920s. (with B. McBride) Camden: Down East Books, 2009
• "The Atlatl as Combat Weapon in 17th-Century Amazonia: Tapuya Indian Warriors in Dutch Colonial Brazil." In The Atlatl 23(2):1-3. http://www.worldatlatl.org/Articles/Tapuya%20Atlatl%20Article%20by%20Harald%20Prins%2025%20May%202010.pdf
• "From Indian Island to Omaha Beach: The Story of Charles Shay, Penobscot Indian War Hero." (with B. McBride). Gardiner: Tilbury House Publishers, 2010. http://www.tilburyhouse.com/Maine%20Frames/me_from%20indian%20island.html