Native American life-history narratives : colonial and postcolonial Navajo ethnography / Susan Berry Brill de Ramírez.

Author/creator Brill de Ramírez, Susan Berry, 1955-
Format Book
Publication InfoAlbuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2007.
Descriptionxxx, 257 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects
Navajo Indians--Biography. --History and criticism.
Storytelling--United States.
Oral tradition--United States.
Ethnology--Biographical methods.
United States--History.

Contents Introduction: Interrogations into the ethnographic colonization of Native American stories -- The languages of empire and indigeneity in ethnographically constructed Native American life-history narratives -- Twentieth-century ethnographic representations of Navajo storytelling -- Ethnography, psychoanalysis, and Navajo autobiography : the objectification of people's stories and lives into textual narratives -- Navajo resistance to ethnographic colonization : Son of Old Man Hat -- Trickster storytellers and the elusive identity of the son of Old Man Hat -- Postcolonial Navajo ethnography : writing the people's own stories from within tribal culture -- Epilogue: Future directions for interrogations into orally produced ethnographies, and specific conversive signposts evidenced in Navajo life-history texts.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 229-247) and index.
LCCN 2006035360
ISBN9780826338976 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0826338976 (cloth : alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks E99.N3 B654 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold