A Forest of Time: American Indian Ways of History - Softcover

Nabokov, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521568749 ISBN 13: 9780521568746

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

This book, first published in 2002, is an introduction for both the student and general reader to the notion that American Indian societies had vital interests in interpreting and transmitting their own histories in their own ways. Separate discussions of legends and oral histories illustrate how various Indian peoples related and commented upon their changing times.

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'... marvelous ... The significance of this book ... in its intelligent synthesis, and elaboration, of a culturally oriented ethnohistory ...'. Michael E. Harkin, Ethnos

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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.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0521568749
• ISBN 13: 9780521568746
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 260