Peter Nabokov

A Forest of Time

American Indian Ways of History

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How American Indians interpreted and transmitted their own histories in their own ways.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 427g
• ISBN-13: 9780521568746
• ISBN-10: 0521568749
• Artikelnr.: 21156475

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: short history of American Indian historicity
1. Some dynamics of American Indian historicity
2. Within reach of memory - oral traditions, legends and history
3. Almost timeless truths - myth and history
4. Commentaries and subversions - memorates, jokes, tales and history
5. Anchoring the past in place - geography and history
6. Memories in things - material culture and Indian histories
7. Renewing, remembering and resisting - rituals and history
8. Old stories, new ways - writing, power and Indian histories
9. Futures of Indian pasts - prophecy and history.