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Secretsharers: Intersecting Systems of Knowledge and the Politics of Documentation in Southwesternist Anthropology, 1880-1930.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Secretsharers: Intersecting Systems of Knowledge and the Politics of Documentation in Southwesternist Anthropology, 1880-1930./
Author:	Johnson, Adam Fulton.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2018,
Description:	237 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 80-05(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International80-05A(E).
Subject:	Cultural anthropology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=11006744
ISBN:	9780438593398

Secretsharers: Intersecting Systems of Knowledge and the Politics of Documentation in Southwesternist Anthropology, 1880-1930.
Johnson, Adam Fulton.

Secretsharers: Intersecting Systems of Knowledge and the Politics of Documentation in Southwesternist Anthropology, 1880-1930. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018 - 237 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 80-05(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Michigan, 2018.

This dissertation examines shifting relationships between Anglo anthropologists and indigenous informants in the Southwestern United States, 1880--1930. Through an in-depth study of Southwesternist anthropological fieldwork, this dissertation explores the politics of ethnographic documentation, presenting anthropologists' strategies and motivations for obtaining certain sorts of ethnographic data, and the management of ethnographic inquiry by indigenous communities that hosted (or tolerated) anthropologists. Southwesternist ethnographers pioneered fieldwork immersion in the 1880s and 1890s, but soon found that both Pueblo and Navajo social restrictions on the free flow of knowledge complicated attempts to produce ethnographic documentation of ceremonial practices. Ethnographers, in response to resistance to public documentation, forged more intimate, even clandestine, relationships with select informants to obtain novel and "secret" information. Despite the idea that modern anthropology is rooted in participant observation, Secretsharers reveals a turn away from it in the early twentieth century, toward tactics that isolated individual informants to provide in-depth cultural information on sensitive issues about which an Anglo (or any outsider) could not openly ask.

ISBN: 9780438593398Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122764
Cultural anthropology.

Secretsharers: Intersecting Systems of Knowledge and the Politics of Documentation in Southwesternist Anthropology, 1880-1930.
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