Inconstant companions archaeology and North American Indian oral traditions / [electronic resource] :
Ronald J. Mason.
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2006.
- ix, 298 p.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Indians of North America--Folklore. Indians of North America--History. Oral tradition--North America. Ethnohistory--North America.