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Women Ethnographers and Native Women Storytellers focuses on the
collaborative work between Native women storytellers and their
female ethnographers and/or editors, but the book is also about
what it is that is constitutive of scientific rigor, factual
accuracy, cultural authenticity, and storytelling signification and
meaning. Regardless of discipline, academic ethnographers who
conducted their field work research during the twentieth century
were trained in the accepted scientific methods and theories of the
time that prescribed observation, objectivity, and evaluative
distance. In contradistinction to such prescribed methods,
regarding the ethnographic work conducted among Native Americans,
it turns out that the intersubjectively relational work of women
(both ethnographers and the Indigenous storytellers with whom they
worked) has produced far more reliably factual, historically
accurate, and tribally specific Indigenous autobiographies than the
more "scientifically objective" approaches of most of the male
ethnographers. This volume provides a close lens to the work of a
number of women ethnographers and Native American women
storytellers to elucidate the effectiveness of their relational
methods. Through a combined rhetorical and literary analysis of
these ethnographies, we are able to differentiate the products of
the women's working relationships. By shifting our focus away from
the surface level textual reading that largely approaches the texts
as factually informative documents, literary analysis provides
access into the deeper levels of the storytelling that lies beneath
the surface of the edited texts. Non-Native scholars and editors
such as Franc Johnson Newcomb, Ruth Underhill, Nancy Lurie, Julie
Cruikshank, and Noel Bennett and Native storytellers and writers
such as Grandma Klah, Maria Chona, Mountain Wolf Woman, Mrs. Angela
Sidney, and Tiana Bighorse help us to understand that there are
ways by which voices and worlds are more and less disclosed for
posterity. The results vary based upon the range of factors
surrounding their production, but consistent across each case is
the fact that informational accuracy is contingent upon the degree
of mutual respect and collaboration in the women's working
relationships. And it is in their pioneering intersubjective
methodologies that the work of these women deserves far greater
attention and approbation.
This book focuses on the collaborative work between Native women
storytellers and their female ethnographers and/or editors, but the
book is also about what it is that is constitutive of scientific
rigor, factual accuracy, cultural authenticity, and storytelling
signification and meaning. Regardless of discipline, academic
ethnographers who conducted their field work research during the
twentieth century were trained in the accepted scientific methods
and theories of the time that prescribed observation, objectivity,
and evaluative distance. In contradistinction to such prescribed
methods, regarding the ethnographic work conducted among Native
Americans, it turns out that the intersubjectively relational work
of women (both ethnographers and the Indigenous storytellers with
whom they worked) has produced far more reliably factual,
historically accurate, and tribally specific Indigenous
autobiographies than the more "scientifically objective" approaches
of most of the male ethnographers. This volume provides a close
lens to the work of a number of women ethnographers and Native
American women storytellers to elucidate the effectiveness of their
relational methods. Through a combined rhetorical and literary
analysis of these ethnographies, we are able to differentiate the
products of the women's working relationships. By shifting our
focus away from the surface level textual reading that largely
approaches the texts as factually informative documents, literary
analysis provides access into the deeper levels of the storytelling
that lies beneath the surface of the edited texts. Non-Native
scholars and editors such as Franc Johnson Newcomb, Ruth Underhill,
Nancy Lurie, Julie Cruikshank, and Noel Bennett and Native
storytellers and writers such as Grandma Klah, Maria Chona,
Mountain Wolf Woman, Mrs. Angela Sidney, Mrs. Kitty Smith, Mrs.
Annie Ned, and Tiana Bighorse help us to understand that there are
ways by which voices and worlds are more and less disclosed for
posterity. The results vary based upon the range of factors
surrounding their production, but consistent across each case is
the fact that informational accuracy is contingent upon the the
degree of mutual respect and collaboration in the women's working
relationships. And it is in their pioneering intersubjective
methodologies that the work of these women deserves far greater
attention and approbation.
Simon J. Ortiz is widely regarded as one of the literary giants of
the twentieth and twenty-first centuries with more than two dozen
volumes of poetry, prose fiction, children's literature, and
nonfiction work to his credit and his being anthologized around the
world. This edited volume is devoted to the depth and range of
Ortiz's contribution to contemporary Native American literature and
literary scholarship.
Including interviews with Ortiz, short creative nonfiction essays
by Native women writers and scholars, and innovative critical
discussions by a dozen scholars of Native literatures, the volume
shows his role in the development of cultural studies and Native
American literatures on a number of fronts, garnering tribal,
regional, national, hemispheric, and global levels of awareness and
appreciation. The range of scholarship herein sheds light on the
larger historical, cultural, and political factors that have shaped
Native writing over the last four decades.
This volume reveals the insights and aesthetics of Ortiz's
indigenous lens, which provides invaluable contributions to
literary studies that turn to the postcolonial, the ecocritical,
the globally indigenous and comparative as indigenous geographies
of belonging are found to inform an aesthetics of inclusion and
authenticity.
Contributors:
Elizabeth Ammons, Tufts University (Boston)
Elizabeth Archuleta (Yaqui), Arizona State University
Esther Belin, Durango, Colorado
Jeff Berglund, Northern Arizona University (Flagstaff)
Kimberly Blaeser (Chippewa), University of Wisconsin (Milwaukee)
Gregory Cajete (Tewa), University of New Mexico
Sophia Cantave, Boston
David Dunaway, University of New Mexico (Albuquerque)
Roger Dunsmore, University of Montana (retired)
Lawrence Evers, University of Arizona
Gwen Westerman Griffin (Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota Oyate), Minnesota
State University (Mankato)
Joy Harjo (Mvskoke), Honolulu
Geary Hobson (Cherokee, Arkansas Quapaw), University of
Oklahoma
David L. Moore, University of Montana
Debbie Reese (Nambe Pueblo), University of Illinois
Kimberly Roppolo (Cherokee, Choctaw, and Creek), University of
Oklahoma
Ralph Salisbury, University of Oregon (retired)
Kathryn W. Shanley (Assiniboine), University of Montana
Leslie Marmon Silko (Laguna Pueblo), Tucson
Sean Kicummah Teuton (Cherokee), University of Wisconsin (Madison)
Laura Tohe (DinA(c)), Arizona State University
Robert Warrior (Osage), University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)
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