Strangers to relatives : the adoption and naming of anthropologists in Native North America /

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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 a...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Kan, Sergei
Format: Government Document Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2001.
Subjects:
Indians of North America.
Ethnologists > North America.
Ethnology > Fieldwork.
Adoption > North America.
Names, Indian > North America.
Indians, North American
Peuples autochtones > Amérique du Nord.
Ethnologues > Amérique du Nord.
Ethnologie > Recherche sur le terrain.
Adoption > Amérique du Nord.
Noms des Peuples autochtones > Amérique du Nord.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Native American Studies.
Adoption
Ethnologists
Ethnology > Fieldwork
Indians of North America
Names, Indian
North America
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Lewis H. Morgan and the Senecas / Elisabeth Tooker
  • Ethnographic deep play : Boas, McIlwraith, and fictive adoption on the northwest coast / Michael E. Harkin
  • He-lost-a-bet (Howann̉eyao) of the Seneca Hawk clan / William N. Fenton
  • Effects of adoption on the Round Lake study / Mary Black-Rogers
  • All my relations : the significance of adoption in anthropological research / William K. Powers and Marla N. Powers
  • Naming as humanizing / Jay Miller
  • Adopting outsiders on the Lower Klamath River / Thomas Buckley
  • Tell your sister to come eat / Anne S. Straus
  • Friendship, family, and fieldwork : one anthropologist adoption by two Tlingit families / Sergei Kan
  • What's in a name? Becoming a real person in a Yup'ik community / Ann Fienup-Riordan.

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