Field / Lomawaima / Mallon Abalone Tales

Collaborative Explorations of Sovereignty and Identity in Native California
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9115-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten

Reihe: Narrating Native Histories

Examines the meaning of abalone among past and present California Indian tribes and how these interpretations of its meaning address larger issues of sovereignty and identity within the tribes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Field, Les W.

Lomawaima, K. Tsianina

Mallon, Florencia E.

Ramos, Alcida Rita

Rappaport, Joanne

Weitere Mitwirkende

Seidner, Cheryl

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Les W. Field is Professor of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico. He is the author of The Grimace of Macho Ratón: Artisans, Identity, and Nation in Late-Twentieth-Century Western Nicaragua, also published by Duke University Press, and a co-editor of Anthropology Put to Work.