This sweeping study by a noted anthropologist examines the relationship of the indigenous Kuna of Panama with writing and ethnography over the course of the twentieth century.
This sweeping study by a noted anthropologist examines the relationship of the indigenous Kuna of Panama with writing and ethnography over the course of the twentieth century.
James Howe, profesor de antropología en el Massachusetts Institute of Technology, estudió en las universidades de Harvard, Oxford y Pennsylvania. Ha realizado estudios sobre la historia, cultura y política kuna desde 1970. Autor de The Kuna Gathering: Contemporary Village Politics in Panama (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1986; Tucson, Arizona: Fenestra Books, 2002) y de varios artículos. Es coautor, con David Maybury-Lewis, de The Indian Peoples of Paraguay: Their Plight and Their Prospects (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Cultural Survival, 1980) y coeditor, con Joel Sherzer y Mac Chapin, de Cantos y oraciones del congreso cuna (Panamá: Editorial Universitaria, 1980). Actualmente escribe un libro acerca del compromiso de los kunas con la antropología durante el siglo XX y, especialmente, la forma en que los intelectuales kunas acabaron estudiando y escribiendo sobre su propia cultura.
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Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Introduction: Literacy, Representation, and Ethnography Chapter 2. A Flock of Birds: The Coming of Schools and Literacy Chapter 3. Letters of Complaint Chapter 4. Representation and Reply Chapter 5. North American Friends Chapter 6. The Swedish Partnership Chapter 7. Collaborative Ethnography Chapter 8. Post-Rebellion Ethnography, 1925-1950 Chapter 9. The Ethnographic Boom, 1950- Chapter 10. Native Ethnography Chapter 11. Chapin's Lament Notes Abbreviations Bibliography Index
Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Introduction: Literacy, Representation, and Ethnography Chapter 2. A Flock of Birds: The Coming of Schools and Literacy Chapter 3. Letters of Complaint Chapter 4. Representation and Reply Chapter 5. North American Friends Chapter 6. The Swedish Partnership Chapter 7. Collaborative Ethnography Chapter 8. Post-Rebellion Ethnography, 1925-1950 Chapter 9. The Ethnographic Boom, 1950- Chapter 10. Native Ethnography Chapter 11. Chapin's Lament Notes Abbreviations Bibliography Index
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