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Abalone Tales: Collaborative Explorations of Sovereignty and Identity in Native California

Abalone Tales: Collaborative Explorations of Sovereignty and Identity in Native California

Paperback

Series: Narrating Native Histories

Native American HistoryAnthropology

ISBN10: 0822342332
ISBN13: 9780822342335
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Aug 29 2008
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
For Native peoples of California, the abalone found along the state's coast have remarkably complex significance as food, spirit, narrative symbol, tradable commodity, and material with which to make adornment and sacred regalia. The large mollusks also represent contemporary struggles surrounding cultural identity and political sovereignty. Abalone Tales, a collaborative ethnography, presents different perspectives on the multifaceted material and symbolic relationships between abalone and the Ohlone, Pomo, Karuk, Hupa, and Wiyot peoples of California. The research agenda, analyses, and writing strategies were determined through collaborative relationships between the anthropologist Les W. Field and Native individuals and communities. Several of these individuals contributed written texts or oral stories for inclusion in the book.

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