Abalone Tales: Collaborative Explorations of Sovereignty and Identity in Native California (Narrating Native Histories)
“Abalone Talesshimmers like the mother of pearl in a California Indian necklace. Out from the shadows of the old colonial tradition, the book fulfills the overdue promise of a new collaborative anthropology. It accomplishes this with remarkable intimacy and intelligence, and in so doing gives us new ways of thinking about ethnography, Native America, and the global politics of indigeneity today.”—Orin Starn, author ofIshi’s Brain: In Search of America’s Last “Wild” Indian