Inconstant companions [electronic resource] : archaeology and North American Indian oral traditions / Ronald J. Mason.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2006.Description: ix, 298 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
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  • E98.F6 M28 2006eb
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Contents:
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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Includes 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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