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Abalone tales : collaborative explorations of sovereignty and identity in native California

Title
Abalone tales : collaborative explorations of sovereignty and identity in native California / Les W. Field ; with Cheryl Seidner [and others].
Author
Field, Les W.
Publication
Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.

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Description
xi, 196 pages : illustrations, map; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Narrating native histories
Uniform Title
Narrating native histories.
Subject
  • Indians of North America > Fishing > California
  • Indians of North America > Ethnozoology > California
  • Indians of North America > California > Social life and customs
  • Abalone culture > California > History
  • Abalones > Social aspects > California
  • Abalones > California > Folklore
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-192) and index.
Contents
Introduction. Why Abalone? -- The Making of a Collaborative Research Project -- I. Artifact, Narrative, Genocide -- 1. The Old Abalone Necklaces and the Possibility of a Muwekma Ohlone Cultural Patrimony -- 2. Abalone Woman Attends the Wiyot Reawakening -- II. The "Meaning" of Abalone -- Two Different Abalone Projects -- 3. Florence Silva and the Legacy of John Boston: Responsibility at the Intersection of Friendship and Ethnography -- 4. Reflections on the Iridescent One -- III. Cultural Revivification and Species Extinction -- 5. Cultural Revivification in the Hoopa Valley -- 6. Extinction Narratives and Pristine Moments: Evaluating the Decline of Abalone -- Conclusion: Horizons of Collaborative Research.
ISBN
  • 9780822342168 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0822342162 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780822342335 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0822342332 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2008013525
OCLC
  • ocn209334133
  • 209334133
  • SCSB-5430521
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries