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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.
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The confidence and support of the antislavery faction was not, however, substantial enough, to save his gubernatorial career; his rift with the nativists continued to widen, and with Catholic electoral support yet ephemeral, Seward decided in June of 1841 that he would not seek a third term. And his immigration proposals, with their emphasis on guest-worker provisions rather than border security, were anathema to the party's nativists. Continued Fitrakis and Wasserman, "Berlet describes CNP members as not only traditional conservatives, but also nativists, xenophobes, white racial supremacists, homophobes, sexists, militarists, authoritarians, reactionaries and 'in some cases outright neo-fascists. |
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