Alfred Kroeber, the Yuroks, and Me: A Letter to My Daughter
I explore my positionality as a non-Indigenous scholar writing about Indigenous peoples in California. As I think about my relationship with the Yurok people I write about, I also think about my relationship with my father, who did not raise me, and about my relationship with my own daughter. Search...
| Subtitles: | "Special Issue: Publicly Engaged Scholarship" |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Equinox Publ.
2024
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| In: |
Journal for the study of religion, nature and culture
Year: 2024, Volume: 18, Issue: 4, Pages: 535-547 |
| Further subjects: | B
Law
B Native American religion B Kroeber B Yurok Indians B Religion B Voice B positionality |
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| Summary: | I explore my positionality as a non-Indigenous scholar writing about Indigenous peoples in California. As I think about my relationship with the Yurok people I write about, I also think about my relationship with my father, who did not raise me, and about my relationship with my own daughter. Searching for my own voice, as an academic, as a daughter, and as a mother, I wonder about the similarities between the infamous anthropologist Alfred Kroeber and me. I ask whether there is an ethical way for me to write about the Yurok, or whether I am doomed to replicate Kroeber's sins. I conclude that greater reflexivity about my own positionality is valuable and even essential to my academic work, in relation to my interlocutors, with integrity, and indeed, in solidarity. |
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| ISSN: | 1749-4915 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of religion, nature and culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/jsrnc.25268 |