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Inconstant companions : archaeology and North American Indian oral traditions /

Main Author: Mason, Ronald J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2007.
Subjects:
Indians of North America
Indians of North America > History.
Oral tradition > North America.
Ethnohistory > North America.
Ethnohistory.
Indians of North America.
Oral tradition.
Indiens d'Amérique > Amérique du Nord
Indiens d'Amérique > Histoire. > Amérique du Nord
Tradition orale > Amérique du Nord.
Ethnohistoire > Amérique du Nord.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Native American Studies.
North America.
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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.

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