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Chiefs, Scribes, and Ethnographers
Kuna Culture from Inside and Out
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James Howe
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English
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2009
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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.
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James Howe is Professor of Anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of The Kuna Gathering and A People Who Would Not Kneel and has worked closely with the Kuna for more than thirty-five years.
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Frontmatter
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CONTENTS
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PREFACE
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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ONE Introduction: Literacy, Representation, and Ethnography
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TWO A Flock of Birds: The Coming of Schools and Literacy
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THREE Letters of Complaint
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FOUR Representation and Reply
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FIVE North American Friends
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SIX The Swedish Partnership
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SEVEN Collaborative Ethnography
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EIGHT Post-Rebellion Ethnography, 1925–1950
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NINE The Ethnographic Boom, 1950
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TEN Native Ethnography
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ELEVEN Chapin’s Lament
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NOTES
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ABBREVIATIONS
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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INDEX
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