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Jamake Highwater

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Jamake Highwater is the author of a number of books for children, including The Ceremony of Innocence, a 1985 ALA Best Book for Young Adults, and I Wear the Morning Star, a 1988 IRA Young Adult Choice. Mr. Highwater lives in Hampton, CT.

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Average rating: 3.71 · 267 ratings · 29 reviews · 32 distinct works

	Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey by Jamake Highwater, Fritz Scholder (Illustrations) 3.62 avg rating — 157 ratings — published 1978 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Myth and Sexuality 3.86 avg rating — 22 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Primal Mind: Vision and Reality in Indian America 4.09 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1337 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Language of Vision: Meditations on Myth and Metaphor 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Mythology of Transgression: Homosexuality as Metaphor 4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Sun, He Dies: A Novel about the End of the Aztec World 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1980 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Ghost Horse Cycle 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings	My rating:
	Rock and other four letter words: music of the electric generation by Jamake Highwater, Linda Eastman (Photography) 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1968	My rating:
	Rama: A Legend by Jamake Highwater, Vālmīki 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1994 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Moonsong Lullaby: Ph 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1981 — 2 editions	My rating:

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“People who exist at the margins of society are very much like Alice in Wonderland. They are not required to make the tough decision to risk their lives by embarking on an adventure of self-discovery. They have already been thrust beyond the city’s walls that keep ordinary people at a safe distance from the unknown. For at least some outsiders, “alienation” has destroyed traditional presumptions of identity and opened up the mythic hero’s path to the possibility of discovery. What outsiders discover in their adventures on the other side of the looking glass is the courage to repudiate self-contempt and recognise their “alienation” as a precious gift of freedom from arbitrary norms that they did not make and did not sanction. At the moment a person questions the validity of the rules, the victim is no longer a victim.”
― Jamake Highwater, The Mythology of Transgression: Homosexuality As Metaphor

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“We often take for granted the notion that some people are insiders, while others are outsiders. But such a notion is a social contrivance, that, like virtually every public construct, is a legacy of a primordial and tribal mentality.”
― Jamake Highwater, The Mythology of Transgression: Homosexuality as Metaphor

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“The wall that separates insiders from outsiders is not born of human nature but methodically built, brick by brick, by tribal convention. The "wall" about which I will often speak in this book is not an organism or a membranous extension of some inborn aspect of "human nature". It is a mechanistic process-a barrier meticulously constructed by erratic community decrees as a means of identifying those who are part of the group and marking those who are not. It is not difficult to imagine the chauvinism that require a community to mark its territories and distinguish its members from its enemies. It is far more difficult to understand the kind of "outsiders" who are the subjects of this book-those who are part of the group and yet are rejected by their peers and cast into a terrible internal exile. It is an exile called "alienation".”
― Jamake Highwater, The Mythology of Transgression: Homosexuality as Metaphor

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