Native American Life-History Narratives
Subtitle: Colonial and Postcolonial Navajo Ethnography
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: May 16, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780826338976
Subjects: Ethnography; History of specific racial & ethnic groups; Indigenous peoples; Social Science; Ethnic Issues; Sociology; North America; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies; Social Science / Native American Studies; Anthropology - General; Archaeology; Biography; History and criticism; Navajo Indians; Oral tradition; Storytelling; United States
Description: Examines various methods for the study of American Indian ethnographic texts, focusing on Navajo storytelling and autobiography in particular, and the ways in which their representations have been distorted by colonization.