A forest of time : American Indian ways of history /

A forest of time : American Indian ways of history /

A study of the many different ways Native American groups have defined their histories for their own purposes.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nabokov, Peter
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Subjects:
Indians of North America > Folklore.
Indians of North America > Historiography.
Tales > North America.
Oral tradition > North America.
Online Access:Table of contents
Publisher description
Table of Contents:
  • 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.