Family/Tribal Ethnography

Combining Family/Tribal History and Intimate Ethnography

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ID2260293
AuthorsRenya K Ramirez (0009-0003-2323-3114, Ho‐Chunk and Ojibwe, Department of Anthropology UC Santa Cruz Santa Cruz California USA, corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume127
Issue3
Pages487-494
Publication date2025-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Anthropologist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7294 • E-ISSN: 1548-1433
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/aman.28084
OpenAlexW4410742254
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited21

I decided to coin a new term, family/tribal ethnography, by which I mean focusing on tribal perspectives of Native families. I argue here that family/tribal ethnography occupies the intersection of anthropology and history, and more specifically family/tribal history and intimate ethnography. For far too long, White anthropologists wrote biographies about Natives, assuming Indigenous people could not write their own life stories, and did not gain permission to write about Native family archival material. Family/tribal ethnography helps Natives learn about our kinship relations, claim Indigeneity, and expand family to include more-than-humans

Ethnography · Ethnology · Family history · Genealogy · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Medicine · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

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