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1 online resource (270 pages) : map |
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Lewis H. Morgan and the Senecas / Elisabeth Tooker -- Ethnographic deep play : Boas, McIlwraith, and fictive adoption on the northwest coast / Michael E. Harkin -- He-lost-a-bet (Howann̉eyao) of the Seneca Hawk clan / William N. Fenton -- Effects of adoption on the Round Lake study / Mary Black-Rogers -- All my relations : the significance of adoption in anthropological research / William K. Powers and Marla N. Powers -- Naming as humanizing / Jay Miller -- Adopting outsiders on the Lower Klamath River / Thomas Buckley -- Tell your sister to come eat / Anne S. Straus -- Friendship, family, and fieldwork : one anthropologist adoption by two Tlingit families / Sergei Kan -- What's in a name? Becoming a real person in a Yup'ik community / Ann Fienup-Riordan |
| Summary |
Strangers to Relatives is an intimate and illuminating look at a typical but misunderstood part of anthropological fieldwork in North America: the adoption and naming of anthropologists by Native families and communities. Adoption and naming have long been a common way for Native peoples in Canada and the United States to deal with strangers who are not enemies. In this outstanding volume, leading anthropologists in the United States and Canada discuss this issue by focusing on the cases of such prominent earlier scholars as Lewis Henry Morgan and Franz Boas. They also share personal experiences of adoption and naming and offer a range of stimulating perspectives on the significance of these practices in the past and today. The contributors explore the impact of adoption and naming upon the relationship between scholar and Native community, considering in particular two key issues: How does adoption affect the fieldwork and subsequent interpretations by anthropologists, and in turn, how are Native individuals and communities themselves affected by adopting an outside scholar whose aim is to learn and write about them? |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Indians of North America.
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Ethnologists -- North America
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Ethnology -- Fieldwork
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Adoption -- North America
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Names, Indian -- North America.
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Indians, North American
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies.
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Adoption
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Ethnologists
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Ethnology -- Fieldwork
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Indians of North America
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Names, Indian
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North America
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Kan, Sergei.
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| ISBN |
080320132X |
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9780803201323 |
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0803227469 |
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9780803227460 |
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0803277970 |
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9780803277977 |
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1280424001 |
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9781280424007 |
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9786610424009 |
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6610424004 |
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