Inconstant companions [electronic resource] : archaeology and North American Indian oral traditions / Ronald J. Mason.
By: Mason, Ronald J.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Material type: BookPublisher: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2006Description: ix, 298 p. ; 25 cm.Subject(s): Indians of North America -- Folklore | Indians of North America -- History | Oral tradition -- North America | Ethnohistory -- North AmericaGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 305.897 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to viewIncludes bibliographical references (p. [253]-286) and index.
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.
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