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- Chiefs, Scribes, and Ethnographers: Kuna Culture from Inside and Out
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: University of Texas Press
- Series: The William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere
summary
The Kuna of Panama, today one of the best known indigenous peoples of Latin America, moved over the course of the twentieth century from orality and isolation towards literacy and an active engagement with the nation and the world. Recognizing the fascination their culture has held for many outsiders, Kuna intellectuals and villagers have collaborated actively with foreign anthropologists to counter anti-Indian prejudice with positive accounts of their people, thus becoming the agents as well as subjects of ethnography. One team of chiefs and secretaries, in particular, independently produced a series of historical and cultural texts, later published in Sweden, that today still constitute the foundation of Kuna ethnography. As a study of the political uses of literacy, of western representation and indigenous counter-representation, and of the ambivalent inter-cultural dialogue at the heart of ethnography, Chiefs, Scribes, and Ethnographers addresses key issues in contemporary anthropology. It is the story of an extended ethnographic encounter, one involving hundreds of active participants on both sides and continuing today.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xiii-xvi
- 3. Letters of Complaint
- pp. 45-63
- 4. Representation and Reply
- pp. 64-87
- 5. North American Friends
- pp. 88-116
- 6. The Swedish Partnership
- pp. 117-139
- 7. Collaborative Ethnography
- pp. 140-163
- 8. Post-Rebellion Ethnography,1925–1950
- pp. 164-189
- 9. The Ethnographic Boom, 1950–
- pp. 190-213
- 10. Native Ethnography
- pp. 214-244
- 11. Chapin’s Lament
- pp. 245-252
- Abbreviations
- pp. 279-280
- Bibliography
- pp. 281-320
Additional Information
ISBN
9780292793477
Related ISBN(s)
9780292721104
MARC Record
OCLC
501014401
Pages
360
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No