Articulations of the ineffable : narratives, engagement, and historical anthropology with the Muwekma tribe of the San Francisco Bay Area
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation integrates Indigenous and western theoretical perspectives to refine thought about the individual in the world, which helps us to approach rupture and growth in American Indian communities without taking recourse to traditional western colonial assumptions. This project has been developed through close collaboration with the Muwekma Tribe of the San Francisco Bay Area, descendants of the historically, federally recognized East Bay Ohlone, Verona Band of Alameda County. Although many of the families of the Muwekma Tribe have continued to live in their homeland for generations, their neglected federal status and their physical integration with various waves of settler communities has seemingly hidden their existence, as well as their ways of being. This project has drawn on transcontinental Indigenous theories, as well as Eurasian theoretical perspectives to develop a decolonial narrative articulating Muwekma ways of being in relationship to ancestral narratives, objects, bodies and places. Despite academic assertions of cultural extinction and dilution starting in the 1920s, the Muwekma families have continued traditions and ways of approaching homeland across three consecutive, violent, colonial regimes in central California. Through the interpretation of a series of interviews, historical ethnographic notes, archaeological praxis, and remains, this research illustrates how the Muwekma families weave western practices of research into their way of being autochthonous in their homeland. This dissertation provides an understanding of the significance of the tribal community's ancestral places, whether they be significant places of ancestor's post-European invasion, or ancestors from the deep past. This dissertation also proposes that to conduct a respectful archaeology, which asserts the contemporaneity of interlocating community's perspectives, is tantamount to a becoming, and requires a level of engagement beyond intellectual assent and objectifying the agents in one's study.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2018; ©2018 |
| Publication date | 2018; 2018 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Becks, Fanya Sandili | |
|---|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Voss, Barbara L, 1967- | |
| Thesis advisor | Voss, Barbara L, 1967- | |
| Thesis advisor | Bauer, Andrew M | |
| Thesis advisor | Ebron, Paulla A, 1953- | |
| Thesis advisor | Hastorf, Christine Ann, 1950- | |
| Thesis advisor | Lightfoot, Kent G, 1953- | |
| Degree committee member | Bauer, Andrew M | |
| Degree committee member | Ebron, Paulla A, 1953- | |
| Degree committee member | Hastorf, Christine Ann, 1950- | |
| Degree committee member | Lightfoot, Kent G, 1953- | |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Anthropology. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Fanya Sandili Becks. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Anthropology. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2018. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2018 by Fanya Sandili Becks
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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