Les W Field: 2 books
The Grimace of Macho Ratón
Artisans, Identity, and Nation in Late-Twentieth-Century Western Nicaragua
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
In this creative ethnography Les W. Field challenges a post-Sandinista national conception of identity, one that threatens to constrict the future of subaltern Nicaraguans. Drawing on the works and words of artisans and artisanas, Indians, and mestizos, Field critiques the national ideology of ethnic...
by Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz, Beth A. Conklin, Les W. Field
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Anthropology and the Politics of Representation examines the inherently problematic nature of representation and description of living people, specifically in ethnography and more generally in anthropological work as a whole.
In Anthropology and the Politics of Representation volume...