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Book SynopsisPresents an intimate look at the typical but often misunderstood practice of adoption and naming of anthropologists by Native families and communities. Leading anthropologists in the United States and Canada discuss this issue by focusing on the cases of such prominent earlier scholars as Lewis Henry Morgan and Franz Boas.
Trade Review“Each of these honest and significant papers adds much to accounts of fieldwork experiences, confronting the historical and contemporary contours of the state of the discipline via adoption processes. . . . This important book furthers understanding of Indian-white relations in a fashion that humanizes both Indians and anthropologists.”—
ChoiceTable of ContentsContents: Editor's Introduction 1. Lewis H. Morgan and the Senecas Elisabeth Tooker 2. Ethnographic Deep Play: Boas, McIlwraith, and Fictive Adoption on the Northwest Coast Michael E. Harkin 3. He-Lost-a-Bet (Howanneyao) of the Seneca Hawk Clan William N. Fenton 4. Effects of Adoption on the Round Lake Study Mary Black-Rogers 5. All My Relations: The Significance of Adoption in Anthropological Research William K. Powers and Marla N. Powers 6. Naming as Humanizing Jay Miller 7. Adopting Outsiders on the Lower Klamath River Thomas Buckley 8. Tell Your Sister to Come Eat Anne S. Straus 9. Friendship, Family, and Fieldwork: One Anthropologist's Adoption by Two Tlingit Families Sergei Kan 10. What's in a Name? Becoming a Real Person in a Yup'ik Community Ann Fienup-Riordan Commentary Raymond D. Fogelson List of Contributors Index
