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Abalone Tales: Collaborative Explorations of Sovereignty and Identity in Native California (Narrating Native Histories) by LES W. FIELD; CHERYL SEIDNER; JULIAN LANG; ROSEMARY CAMBRA; FLORENCE SILVA; VIVIEN HAILSTONE; DARLENE MARSHALL; BRADLEY MARSHALL; CALLIE LARA; MERV GEORGE; THE CULTURAL COMMITTEE OF THE YUROK TRIBE DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Annotation For Native peoples of California, the abalone found along the states coast have remarkably complex significance as food, spirit, narrative symbol, tradable commodity, and material with which to make adornment and sacred regalia. The large mollusks also represent contemporary struggles surrounding cultural identity and political sovereignty. Abalone Tales , a collaborative ethnography, presents different perspectives on the multifaceted material and symbolic relationships between abalone and the Ohlone, Pomo, Karuk, Hupa, and Wiyot peoples of California. The research agenda, analyses, and writing strategies were determined through collaborative relationships between the anthropologist Les W. Field and Native individuals and communities. Several of these individuals contributed written texts or oral stories for inclusion in the book. Tales about abalone and their historical and contemporary meanings are related by Field and his coauthors, who include the chair and other members of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe; a Point Arena Pomo elder; the chair of the Wiyot tribe and her sister; several Hupa Indians; and a Karuk scholar, artist, and performer. Reflecting the divergent perspec
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- Author
- LES W. FIELD; CHERYL SEIDNER; JULIAN LANG; ROSEMARY CAMBRA; FLORENCE SILVA; VIVIEN HAILSTONE; DARLENE MARSHALL; BRADLEY MARSHALL; CALLIE LARA; MERV GEORGE; THE CULTURAL COMMITTEE OF THE YUROK TRIBE DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Publisher
- Duke University Press Books
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780822342168
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Anthropology, Agriculture
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