Native American Life-history Narratives: Colonial and Postcolonial Navajo Ethnography
- ISBN-10
- 0826338976
- ISBN-13
- 9780826338976
- Category
- Ethnology
- Pages
- 257
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- UNM Press
- Author
- Susan Berry Brill de Ramírez
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.
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