Salvage Ethnography and Gender Politics in Two Old Women: Velma Wallis’s Retelling of a Gwich’in Oral Story
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rachel Ramsey
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 11, no. 3, Series 2, Fall, 1999, pp. [22]-41
Description
Discusses the problematic nature of recording tales for posterity in print while remaining true to the original meaning and spirit of the oral version. The article argues that those who do so are treading a fine line between author/ethnographer.
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