Twentieth Century Ethnographies of Coast Salish Ceremonialism: Contextualization and Critique
Tony B. Benning
Volume 18, Number 1 (2019) 18 (1): 60-75
Keywords Indigenous ethnographies, critical anthropology, Coast Salish, ceremonialism
Abstract
The mid and late-twentieth century periods each constituted distinct socio-cultural epochs with respect to the Native North American socio-historical context. This paper critically examines ethnographic accounts of Coast Salish ceremonialism from those periods arguing that they each reflected the respective epochs in which they were written. This paper then goes on to examine those ethnographies in the light of contemporary emphasis on self-reflexivity and issues around authorial voice and representation. The paper concludes that the ethnographic accounts of Coast Salish ceremonialism lags contemporary standards of ethnographic research.
Tony B. Benning
Published June 1, 2019
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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