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Inconstant companions : archaeology and North American Indian oral traditions /

One of the most significant theoretical issues in contemporary American archaeology & mdash;the role of oral tradition in scientific research. Ronald J. Mason explores the tension between aboriginal oral traditions and the practice of archaeology in North America. That exploration is necessarily...

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Основен автор: Mason, Ronald J.
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ℗♭2007.
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Онлайн достъп: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=217980
Подобни документи: Print version:: Inconstant companions.
Съдържание:
  • 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.