"The Laying Aside of a Shield": Ethnographic Power Struggles in Oliver La Farge's Indian Fiction
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Erik Trump
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 3, Summer, 1998, pp. 326-342
Description
Literary criticism piece in which the author considers the fictional writings and autobiography of Oliver La Farge, who was both a novelist and an anthropologist; argues that La Farge’s work engages in a process of critique of the anthropology and ethnography disciplines.