Forest of Time American Indian Ways of History

Name: Forest of Time American Indian Ways of History
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ISBN: 9780521568746

ISBN-10: 0521568749

ISBN-13: 9780521568746

Edition: 2002

Authors: Peter Nabokov

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A Forest of Time is the first introduction for undergraduates, graduates and general readers to the notion that American Indian societies had vital interests in interpreting and transmitting their own histories in their own ways, for themselves. 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 also put rituals and material culture, landscape, prophecies, and even the English language to the urgent service of keeping the past alive and relevant. Throughout these lively chapters, we also witness the American Indian historical imagination…

Book details

List price: $25.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/25/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 260
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Introduction: short history of American Indian historicity



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