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Native American life-history narratives : colonial and postcolonial Navajo ethnography
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- Creator
- Susan Berry Brill de Ramírez
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2007
- Physical Details
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- xxx, 257 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780826338976, 0826338976
- OCLC
- ocm74459985
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-247) and index.
- 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