Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9781496213167 |
| ISBN10: | 1496213165 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 264 pages |
| Size: | 229x152 mm |
| Weight: | 666 g |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 7 photographs, index |
| 700 |
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Rezballers and Skate Elders
Joyful Futures in Indian Country
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Date of Publication: 1 June 2025
Number of Volumes: Cloth Over Boards
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Short description:
Ethnographer and American Indian studies scholar David Kamper examines how Indigenous youth and adults are making basketball and skateboarding meaningful to their communities by sustaining the transmission of intergenerational knowledge and combatting intergenerational trauma.
Long description:
Ethnographer and American Indian studies scholar David Kamper examines how Indigenous youth and adults are making basketball and skateboarding meaningful to their communities by sustaining the transmission of intergenerational knowledge and combatting intergenerational trauma. Kamper looks at how the events and tournaments built around rezball are similar to powwows in how they bring people together across localized communities and generations and he coins the phrase “skate elders” for those who use the social nature of skateboarding to build community and mentorships.
Through a broad picture of North America, Kamper demonstrates how Native peoples have long indigenized cultural practices and material culture to assert Native sovereignty, creating joy and hope in the process. In Rezballers and Skate Elders Kamper considers how Native expressions of basketball and skateboarding show continuities with the historical transformation of practices that originated outside Indian Country to make them meaningful in Native life.
Through a broad picture of North America, Kamper demonstrates how Native peoples have long indigenized cultural practices and material culture to assert Native sovereignty, creating joy and hope in the process. In Rezballers and Skate Elders Kamper considers how Native expressions of basketball and skateboarding show continuities with the historical transformation of practices that originated outside Indian Country to make them meaningful in Native life.
“David Kamper has provided a provocative and insightful reimagining of the role and function of sport in contemporary Native life. His sensitive portrayal of basketball and skateboarding invites the reader into a vibrant world of youth cultures, community engagement, Indigenous survivance, and reinvention of what it means to be Indigenous in the twenty-first century.”—Jeffrey P. Shepherd, author of We Are an Indian Nation: A History of the Hualapai People
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Ball Is Life
2. Some Days It’s a Good Day to Play Basketball
3. Rezball, the Anti-Funeral
4. Rezball and Gender
5. Skate (Rez) Life
6. Skater Legends of the Rez
7. Skate Elders
8. Native Women and Nonbinary Skaters
Epilogue
Works Cited
Index
