Myth and Memory

Stories of Indigenous-European Contact
Herausgeber: Lutz, John Sutton

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines contact stories from indigenous and newcomer populations from New Zealand and throughout North America. This book argues that we are in the contact zone, struggling to understand the meaning of contact between indigenous and settler populations. It is suitable for scholars and students in Canadian history and First Nations studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of British Columbia Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 155mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 402g
• ISBN-13: 9780774812634
• ISBN-10: 077481263X
• Artikelnr.: 23427512

Autorenporträt

Edited by John Sutton Lutz

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction. Myth Understandings: First Contact, Over and Over Again /
John Lutz
1. Close Encounters of the First Kind / J. Edward (Ted) Chamberlin
2. First Contact as a Spiritual Performance: Encounters on the North
American West Coast / John Lutz
3. Reflections on Indigenous History and Memory: Reconstructing and
Reconsidering Contact / Keith Carlson
4. Poking Fun? Humour and Power in Kaska Contact Narratives / Patrick Moore
5. Herbert Spencer, Paul Kane, and the Making of "The Chinook" / I.S.
MacLaren
6. Performing Paradox: Narrativity and the Lost Colony of Roanoke / Michael
Harkin
7. Stories at the Margins: Toward a More Inclusive Historiography / Wendy
Wickwire
8. When the White Kawau Flies / Judith Binney
9. The Interpreter as Contact Point: Avoiding Collisions in Tlingit America
/ Nora and Richard Dauenhauer
Notes
Bibliography
Contributors