Chiefs, scribes, and ethnographers
Subtitle: Kuna culture from inside and out
By: James Howe.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780292721104
Subjects: Cuna Indians -- Historiography; Cuna Indians -- Pulbic opinion; Cuna Indians -- Social life and customs; Ethnology -- Panama -- Authorship; Indians in literature; Indian anthropologists -- Panama; Participant observation -- Panama; Public opinion -- Panama
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Literacy, representation, and ethnography; title: A flock of birds : the coming of schools and literacy; title: Letters of complaint; title: Representation and reply; title: North American friends; title: The Swedish partnership; title: Collaborative ethnography; title: Post-rebellion ethnography, 1925-1950; title: The ethnographic boom, 1950-; title: Native ethnography; title: Chapin's lament.