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Abalone Tales – Collaborative Explorations of Sovereignty and Identity in Native California: Narrating Native Histories

Autor Les W. Field
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 aug 2008
For Native peoples of California, the abalone found along the state’s coast has remarkably complex significance as food, spirit, narrative symbol, tradable commodity, and material with which to make adornment and sacred regalia. The large mollusk also represents contemporary struggles surrounding cultural identity and political sovereignty. Abalone Tales, a collaborative ethnography, presents different perspectives on the multifaceted material and symbolic relationships between abalone and the Ohlone, Pomo, Karuk, Hupa, and Wiyot peoples of California. The research agenda, analysis, and writing strategies were determined through collaborative relationships between the anthropologist Les W. Field and Native individuals and communities. Several of these individuals contributed written texts or oral stories for inclusion in the book. Tales about abalone and its historical and contemporary meanings are related by Field and his co-authors, who include the chair and other members of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe, the chair of the Wiyot tribe and her sister, a Point Arena Pomo elder, several Hupa Indians, and a Karuk scholar, artist, and performer. Reflecting the divergent perspectives of various Native groups and people, the stories and analyses of them belie any presumption of a single, unified indigenous understanding of abalone. At the same time, they shed light on abalone’s role in cultural revitalization, struggles over territory, tribal appeals for federal recognition, and connections among California’s Native groups. While California’s abalone are in danger of extinction, their symbolic power appears to surpass even the environmental crises affecting the state’s vulnerable coastline.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822342335
ISBN-10: 0822342332
Pagini: 208
Ilustrații: 10 illustrations, 1 map, 1 figure
Dimensiuni: 153 x 220 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Wiley
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Cuprins

Acknowledgements; IntroductionPart One. Artifact, Narrative, Genocide1. The Old Abalone Necklaces and the Possibility of a Muwekma Ohlone Cultural Patrimony; 2. Abalone Woman Attends the Wiyot ReawakeningPart Two. The “Meaning” of Abalone: Two Different Abalone Projects3. Florence Silva and the Legacy of John Boston: Responsibility at the Intersection of Friendship and Ethnography; 4. Reflections on the Iridescent OnePart Three. Cultural Revivification and Species Extinction5. Cultural Revivification in the Hoopa Valley; 6. Extinction Narratives and Pristine Moments: Evaluating the Decline of Abalone; Conclusion. Horizons of Collaborative ResearchNotes; Bibliography; Index

Recenzii

"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"Abalone Tales shimmers like the mother of pearl in a California Indian necklace. Out from the shadows of the old colonial tradition, the book fulfills the overdue promise of a new collaborative anthropology. It accomplishes this with remarkable intimacy and intelligence, and in so doing gives us new ways of thinking about ethnography, Native America, and the global politics of indigeneity today.”--Orin Starn, author of Ishi’s Brain: In Search of America’s Last "Wild” Indian

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""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

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Examines the cultural, social, and economic importance of abalone among past and present California Indian tribes