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Strangers to relatives : the adoption and naming of anthropologists in Native North America / edited by Sergei Kan.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of North America.
- Ethnologists--North America.
- Ethnologists.
- Ethnology--Fieldwork.
- Ethnology.
- Adoption--North America.
- Adoption.
- Names, Indian--North America.
- Names, Indian.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (278 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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?
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Editor's Introduction
- Lewis H. Morgan and the Senecas
- Ethnographic Deep Play
- He-Lost-a-Bet (Howan?neyao) of the Seneca Hawk Clan
- Effects of Adoption on the Round Lake Study
- All My Relations
- Naming as Humanizing
- Adopting Outsiders on the Lower Klamath River
- Tell Your Sister to Come Eat
- Friendship, Family, and Fieldwork
- What's in a Name?
- Commentary
- Contributors
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-42400-1
- 9786610424009
- 0-8032-0132-X
- OCLC:
- 70739944
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