Review of Tenatsali ou l’ethnologue qui fut transformé en indien, by Frank Hamilton Cushing

Autores/as

Palabras clave:

Frank Hamilton Cushing, Pueblo Zuñi, Nativos Americanos, Teoría antropológica

Resumen

Tenatsali ou l’ethnologue qui fut transformé en Indien is for multiple reasons a wonderous and welcome publication. This book contributes significantly to anthropological knowledge in at least two ways: first to a scholarly and balanced biography of Frank Hamilton Cushing as ethnologist; and second to detailed sociocultural information about Zuni in the late nineteenth century. The heart of Tenatsali consists of some twenty-five wide-ranging essays by Cushing, all of which provide a solid historical and descriptive examination of Zuni society and culture.  These essays, mainly published in specialized journals during the 1880s and 1890s, are beautifully translated into French by Éléonore Devevey. They represent a broad range of subject matter, starting with Cushing’s memoirs of his frequently difficult experiences as a white man living among the Zuni, continuing with accounts of Zuni social and religious beliefs and practices, and ending with technical and aesthetic considerations of Zuni material culture, principally of arrows, copper, and pottery.

Biografía del autor/a

Stanley Brandes, Universidad de California, Berkeley

For more than thirty years, I have been immersed in the study of European and Latin American ethnography. My work has focused about equally on Spain and Mexico, although I have also written on the United States and Guatemala. During the course of my career, I have turned my attention to a wide variety of topics, including peasant society and culture, demographic anthropology (particularly issues revolving around migration and nuptiality), folklore (particularly jokes, banter, and humor of all kinds), the life course (including, most importantly, middle age), symbolism, ritual and religion, food and drink, and, most recently, visual anthropology. While abroad, I have lived and worked in both rural and urban settings and believe that, whether writing about Spain, Mexico, or the United States, my work is grounded in direct observations of a given people and reflects a sensitivity to regional, ethnic, class, and gender diversity. I believe strongly in the ethnographic field tradition.

Citas

Ruth Benedict, Patterns of Culture (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1934).

Hughte, Phil, A Zuni Artist Looks at Frank Hamilton Cushing (A:shivi A:wan Museum and Heritage Center, 1994)

Malinowski, Bronislaw, Argonauts of the Western Pacific (New York: Dutton, 1922)

Saumade, Frédéric & Pérez, Patrick (Eds.), Frank Hamilton Cushing. Tenatsali ou l’ethnologue qui fut transformé en indien (Paris: CNRS Editions, 2022).

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2023-12-15

Número

Núm. 9 (2023)

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