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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Talonbooks Ltd
Publication date
September 1, 2000
Pages
174
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780889224308
ISBN-10
0889224307
Dimensions
0.25 by 6 by 9 in.
Weight
0.60 lbs.
Original list price
$14.95
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It has been well known since Marius Barbeauâs review of the first edition of Franz Boasâs Tsimshian Mythology in 1917, that something was seriously amiss with Boasâs alleged Âtranslationsâ of the stories gathered by his chief Tsimshian informant, Henry Tate. But what, exactly, was it that Boas was doing with Tateâs stories? It is this question that Ralph Maud sets out to address in Transmission Difficulties.
Boasâs original misrepresentations of the more than 2,000 pages of material he received from Henry Tate have been denied by the ethnographic establishment for more than eighty years. His distortion of Tateâs stories has been rationalized, to date, as Âcultural relativismâÂany loss of Tateâs original material in this ethnographic Âcollaborationâ between Native informant and European scientist was Âunavoidable,â due to the presumably equal Âcultural differencesâ between them. This, Maud argues convincingly, is not the case at all. The fact that Boas paid Tate for his stories by the page, and furthermore instructed Tate specifically on what stories, and even on what kinds of stories he was to gather and submit, created a profoundly unequal relationship between these two men, which resulted in an inevitable and pre-determined Âauthenticationâ of the Native material by the European ethnographer.
Transmission Difficulties unfolds like a gripping, real-life mystery story. It leaves the reader with a whole new vision of what the relation between European colonials and Aboriginal inhabitants in the Americas might have been, and still might be.
Boasâs original misrepresentations of the more than 2,000 pages of material he received from Henry Tate have been denied by the ethnographic establishment for more than eighty years. His distortion of Tateâs stories has been rationalized, to date, as Âcultural relativismâÂany loss of Tateâs original material in this ethnographic Âcollaborationâ between Native informant and European scientist was Âunavoidable,â due to the presumably equal Âcultural differencesâ between them. This, Maud argues convincingly, is not the case at all. The fact that Boas paid Tate for his stories by the page, and furthermore instructed Tate specifically on what stories, and even on what kinds of stories he was to gather and submit, created a profoundly unequal relationship between these two men, which resulted in an inevitable and pre-determined Âauthenticationâ of the Native material by the European ethnographer.
Transmission Difficulties unfolds like a gripping, real-life mystery story. It leaves the reader with a whole new vision of what the relation between European colonials and Aboriginal inhabitants in the Americas might have been, and still might be.
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from Talonbooks Ltd (September 1, 2000)
9780889224308 | details & prices | 174 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.25 in. | 0.60 lbs | List price $14.95
About: It has been well known since Marius Barbeauâs review of the first edition of Franz Boasâs Tsimshian Mythology in 1917, that something was seriously amiss with Boasâs alleged Âtranslationsâ of the stories gathered by his chief Tsimshian informant, Henry Tate.
About: It has been well known since Marius Barbeauâs review of the first edition of Franz Boasâs Tsimshian Mythology in 1917, that something was seriously amiss with Boasâs alleged Âtranslationsâ of the stories gathered by his chief Tsimshian informant, Henry Tate.
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