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Informationen zum Autor James Howe, profesor de antropología en el Massachusetts Institute of Technology, estudió en las universidades de Harvard, Oxford y Pennsylvania. Ha realizado estudios sobre la historia, cultura y política kuna desde 1970. Autor de The Kuna Gathering: Contemporary Village Politics in Panama (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1986; Tucson, Arizona: Fenestra Books, 2002) y de varios artículos. Es coautor, con David Maybury-Lewis, de The Indian Peoples of Paraguay: Their Plight and Their Prospects (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Cultural Survival, 1980) y coeditor, con Joel Sherzer y Mac Chapin, de Cantos y oraciones del congreso cuna (Panamá: Editorial Universitaria, 1980). Actualmente escribe un libro acerca del compromiso de los kunas con la antropología durante el siglo XX y, especialmente, la forma en que los intelectuales kunas acabaron estudiando y escribiendo sobre su propia cultura. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung This sweeping study by a noted anthropologist examines the relationship of the indigenous Kuna of Panama with writing and ethnography over the course of the twentieth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceAcknowledgmentsChapter 1. Introduction: Literacy, Representation, and EthnographyChapter 2. A Flock of Birds: The Coming of Schools and LiteracyChapter 3. Letters of ComplaintChapter 4. Representation and ReplyChapter 5. North American FriendsChapter 6. The Swedish PartnershipChapter 7. Collaborative EthnographyChapter 8. Post-Rebellion Ethnography, 1925-1950Chapter 9. The Ethnographic Boom, 1950-Chapter 10. Native EthnographyChapter 11. Chapin's LamentNotesAbbreviationsBibliographyIndex...
