{"product_id":"savage-kin-margaret-m-bruchac-9780816539390","title":"Savage Kin: Indigenous Informants and American Anthropologists","description":"In this provocative new book, Margaret M. Bruchac, an Indigenous anthropologist, turns the word \u003ci\u003esavage\u003c\/i\u003e on its head. \u003ci\u003eSavage Kin\u003c\/i\u003e explores the nature of the relationships between Indigenous informants, such as Gladys Tantaquidgeon (Mohegan), Jesse Cornplanter (Seneca), and George Hunt (Tlingit), and early twentieth-century anthropological collectors, such as Frank Speck, Arthur C. Parker, William N. Fenton, and Franz Boas. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This book reconceptualizes the intimate details of encounters with Native interlocutors who by turns inspired, facilitated, and resisted the anthropological enterprise. Like other texts focused on this era, \u003ci\u003eSavage Kin\u003c\/i\u003e features some of the elite white men credited with salvaging material that might otherwise have been lost. Unlike other texts, this book highlights the intellectual contributions and cultural strategies of unsung Indigenous informants without whom this research could never have taken place. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e These bicultural partnerships transgressed social divides and blurred the roles of anthropologist\/informant, relative\/stranger, and collector\/collected. Yet these stories were obscured by collecting practices that separated people from objects, objects from communities, and communities from stories. Bruchac's decolonizing efforts include \"reverse ethnography\"--painstakingly tracking seemingly unidentifiable objects, misconstrued social relations, unpublished correspondence, and unattributed field notes--to recover this evidence. Those early encounters generated foundational knowledges that still affect Indigenous communities today. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSavage Kin\u003c\/i\u003e also contains unexpected narratives of human and other-­than-human encounters--brilliant discoveries, lessons from ancestral spirits, prophetic warnings, powerful gifts, and personal tragedies--that will move Native and non-Native readers alike. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Margaret M. Bruchac\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816539391\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816539390\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Arizona Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/28\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d","brand":"Margaret M. Bruchac","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926481109247,"sku":"9780816539390","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_265fcf95-db31-425b-9cdb-812279f7aad4.jpg?v=1681083308","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/savage-kin-margaret-m-bruchac-9780816539390","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}