| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.3

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Book Review

Native American Life-History Narratives: Colonial and Postcolonial Navajo Ethnography. By Susan Berry Brill de Ramírez. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2007. xxx + 257 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $34.95.)

In this multifaceted study, Brill de Ramírez, a literary critic specializing in American Indian literature, critiques past and current ethnographic work among the Navajos. The volume showcases a postcolonial deconstruction of Son of Old Man Hat (Lincoln, 1938), and its editor, Walter Dyk. These critiques are framed by wider goals of "interrogat[ing] the facticity of twentieth century Navajo ethnography" (inside jacket), bringing a storytelling approach to ethnography, and correcting the ethnographic record. The author believes that long-term committed relational ties emphasizing co-equal creative partnerships among people can lead to "conversively informed ethnography or scholarship that is definitionally relational, methodologically intersubjective, and tribally and ethically responsive" (p. 39).

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