Les W Field

Abalone Tales

Collaborative Explorations of Sovereignty and Identity in Native California

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

""Abalone Tales" is a fine example of collaborative ethnography. It adds immeasurably to ongoing conversations among anthropologists and other social scientists about the still-emergent possibilities for producing dialogic, collaborative, and ethically responsible ethnographies."--Luke Eric Lassiter, Marshall University Graduate College

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9780822342335
• ISBN-10: 0822342332
• Artikelnr.: 23822244

Autorenporträt

Les W. Field

Inhaltsangabe

About the Series vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Why Abalone? The Making of a Collaborative Research Project 1
I. Artifact, Narrative, Genocide
1. The Old Abalone Necklaces and the Possibility of a Muwekma Ohlone
Cultural Patrimony 9
2. Abalone Woman Attends the Wiyot Reawakening 50
II. The "Meaning" of Abalone: Two Different Abalone Projects
3. Florence Silvia and the Legacy of John Boston: Responsibility at the
Intersection of Friendship and Ethnography 62
4. Reflections on the Iridescent One 84
III. Cultural Revivification and the Species Extinction
5. Cultural Revivification in the Hoopa Valley 109
6. Extinction Narratives and Pristine Moments: Evaluating the Decline of
Abalone 137
Conclusion: Horizons of Collaborative Research 161
Notes 173
Bibliography 179
Index 193