Memories of Earth and Sea

Anton Daughters is an associate professor of anthropology at Truman State University. He is co-editor of Chiloé: The Ethnobiology of an Island Culture and Moquis and Kastiilam: Hopis, Spaniards, and the Trauma of History.

"There is something seductive about [Memories of Earth and Sea], largely due to the careful, sensitive, and evocative portrait that Daughters paints of Chiloé and the inclusion of the voices of the islanders themselves. Its length and accessibility make the book ideal for undergraduate courses on Chile, the Pacific, and historical anthropology.”—Raymond Craib, Hispanic American Historical Review “This is an essential book for anyone interested in Chiloé and southern Chile, as well as a wider readership interested in learning, through an open, fluid narrative, how the complex intersections of the local and the global occur in a remote part of the world. The conceptual approach is not restricted to the ethnographic´ scenario that the author describes from Chiloé, since the model enables us to think about the dynamics of cultural identity in other contexts, particularly in Latin America.”—Gonzalo Saavedra, American Anthropologist “Daughters reminds us that it is from the contradictions of longing for difficult pasts that dynamic forms of identity emerge and Indigenous heritage is rediscovered in daily life vis-á-vis promises of ineluctable modernization.”—Piergiorgio Di Giminiani, author of Sentient Lands: Indigeneity, Property, and Political Imagination in Neoliberal Chile