Susan Elizabeth Ramirez

In Praise of the Ancestors

Names, Identity, and Memory in Africa and the Americas

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In Praise of the Ancestors is a revisionist interpretation of early colonial accounts and sources that reveal incongruities in accepted knowledge among the Indigenous peoples of sub-Saharan Africa, the North American Great Lakes regions, and the Andes. Ã

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Produktdetails

• Borderlands and Transcultural Studies
• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9781496231475
• ISBN-10: 1496231473
• Artikelnr.: 62354613

Autorenporträt

Susan Elizabeth Ramírez is the Neville G. Penrose Chair of History and Latin American Studies at Texas Christian University. She is the author of several books, including To Feed and Be Fed: The Cosmological Bases of Authority and Identity in the Andes and A History of Colonial Latin America from First Encounters to Independence.  

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
List of Maps
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
1. Alternative Ways of Remembering and Knowing
2. “Positional Inheritance” in Africa
3. The Narration of Ho-De’-No-Sau-Nee (Iroquois) History
4. The Making of Andean Ancestral Traditions
5. Reflections on Oral Traditions as History
Appendix: The Accomplishments of the Pachacuti(s) according to Betanzos and
Montesinos
Notes
References
Index