Inconstant companions archaeology and North American Indian oral traditions /

Main Author: Mason, Ronald J.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2006.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10218375
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • On history
  • On memory
  • Norsemen, trojans, and ancient Israelites
  • On the nature of oral tradition
  • Mixing apples and oranges, or Looking for kernels of truth
  • Mammoth remembrances
  • On the historicity of symbols and symbolic praxis
  • On the central Siouans before J. Owen Dorsey
  • Conclusions.