A Forest of Time: American Indian Ways of HistoryCambridge University Press, 2002 M02 25 - 246 páginas A Forest of Time is the first introduction for undergraduates and graduates, Western and Indian history buffs, and general readers to the notion that American Indian societies had vital interests in interpreting and transmitting their own ways for themselves. Through separate discussions of legends and oral histories, creation stories and folktales, it illustrates how various Indian peoples related and commented upon their changing times. Drawing upon his own varied research as well as sampling the latest in scholarship from ethnohistory, anthropology, folklore and Indian Studies, Dr. Nabokov offers dramatic examples of how native peoples put rituals and material culture, landscape, prophecies, and even the English language to the urgent task of keeping the past alive and relevant. Throughout these lively chapters, we also witness the American Indian historical imagination deployed as a coping skill and survival strategy. This book surveys the latest integrating ideas while offering a useful bibliography that opens up, and demands that we engage with, alternative chronicles for America's multi-cultural past. Peter Navokov is Professor in the Department of World Arts and Cultures and American Indian Studies Program at UCLA. He is the author of several books, including Native American Architecture, (Oxford, 1991, co-author Robert Easton) which won the American Institue of Architects honor award and the Bay Area Book Reviewer Association Award. His book Native American Testimony (Thomas Y. Crowell, 1978) was named the American Library Association's Best Book for Young Adults and Library School Journal Best Book 1978 in addition to receiving the Carter G. Woodson Award. His work as a journalist in 1967 earned him prizes from the Albuquerque Press Association and the New Mexico Press Association. |
Contenido
Some Dynamics of American Indian Historicity | 29 |
Within Reach of Memory Oral Traditions Legends and History | 58 |
Almost Timeless Truths Myth and History | 85 |
Commentaries and Subversions Memorates Jokes Tales and History | 105 |
Anchoring the Past in Place Geography and History | 126 |
Memories in Things Material Culture and Indian Histories | 150 |
Renewing Remembering and Resisting Rituals and History | 172 |
Old Stories New Ways Writing Power and Indian Histories | 192 |
Futures of Indian Pasts Prophecy and History | 218 |
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Página 22 - The heretofore obscure histories of remote islands deserve a place alongside the self-contemplation of the European past — or the history of "civilizations" — for their own remarkable contributions to an historical understanding. We thus multiply our conceptions of history by the diversity of structures. Suddenly, there are all kinds of new things to consider.
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One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West Before Lewis and Clark Colin G. Calloway Vista previa limitada - 2006 |
Archaeology of Bruce Trigger: Theoretical Empiricism Ronald Williamson,Michael S. Bisson Vista previa limitada - 2006 |