TY  - BOOK
AU  - Howe,James
TI  - Chiefs, Scribes, and Ethnographers: Kuna Culture from Inside and Out 
T2  - The William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere
SN  - 9780292793477
AV  - F1565.2.C8 H688 2009
U1  - 305.897/83 22
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Austin : 
PB  - University of Texas Press, 
KW  - Cuna Indians
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Public opinion
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Panama
KW  - Authorship
KW  - Indian anthropologists
KW  - Indians in literature
KW  - Participant observation
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; PREFACE --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; ONE Introduction: Literacy, Representation, and Ethnography --; TWO A Flock of Birds: The Coming of Schools and Literacy --; THREE Letters of Complaint --; FOUR Representation and Reply --; FIVE North American Friends --; SIX The Swedish Partnership --; SEVEN Collaborative Ethnography --; EIGHT Post-Rebellion Ethnography, 1925–1950 --; NINE The Ethnographic Boom, 1950 --; TEN Native Ethnography --; ELEVEN Chapin’s Lament --; NOTES --; ABBREVIATIONS --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7560/721104
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292793477
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780292793477/original
ER  -