Inconstant Companions Archaeology and North American Indian Oral Traditions 1st Edition by Ronald J Mason ISBN 0817355332 978-0817355333
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ISBN 10: 0817355332
ISBN 13: 978-0817355333
Author: Ronald J. Mason
One of the most significant theoretical issues in contemporary American archaeology—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 interdisciplinary and set in a global context. Indeed, the issues at stake are universal in the current era of intellectual “decolonization” and multiculturalism.
Unless committed to writing, even the most esteemed utterances are inevitably forgotten with the passing of generations, however much the succeeding ones try to reproduce what they think they had heard. Writing shares with archaeo-logical remains a greater, if unequal, durability. Through copious examples across academic and ethnographic spectra and over millennia, Mason examines the disparate functions of traditional “ways of knowing” in contrast to the paradigm of science and critical historiography.
Table of contents:
Contents Preface 000
1. Introduction 000
2. On History 000
3. On Memory 000
4. Norsemen, Trojans, and Ancient Israelites 000
5. On the Nature of Oral Tradition 000
6. Mixing Apples and Oranges, or Looking for Kernels of Truth 000
7. Mammoth Remembrances 000
8. On the Historicity of Symbols and Symbolic Praxis 000
9. On the Central Siouans Before J. Owen Dorsey 000
10. Conclusions 000 References Cited 000 Index 000
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