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A forest of time : American Indian ways of history / Peter Nabokov.
Introduces undergraduate and graduate students, Western and Indian history scholars and buff, and general readers to the notion that American Indian societies transmitted and interpreted their own histories in their own ways for their own reasons. Through discussions of legends and oral histories, creation stories and folktales, illustrates how various Indian peoples related and commented on their changing times. Drawing on his own research as well as recent scholarship from ethnohistory, anthropology, folklore and Indian studies, the author offers examples of how the American Indian historical imagination has put rituals and material culture, landscape, prophecies, and the English language to the service of keeping the past alive and vibrant.
Record details
- ISBN: 0521568749 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780521568746 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: x, 246 pages ; 23 cm.
- Edition: Repr. with corrections.
- Publisher: Cambridge ; Cambridge University Press, 2002.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Some dynamics of American Indian historicity -- Within reach of memory: oral traditions, legends, and history -- Almost timeless truths: myth and history -- Commentaries and subversions: memorates, jokes, tales, and history -- Anchoring the past in place: geography and history -- Memories in things: material culture and Indian histories -- Renewing, remembering, and resisting: rituals and history -- Old stories, new ways: writing, power, and Indian histories -- Futures of Indian pasts: prophecy and history.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lummi Library | E 78 .N33 2002 | 265028 | Stacks | Available | - |