Decolonizing Prehistory - Deep Time and Indigenous Knowledges in North America

Informationen zum Autor Gesa Mackenthun teaches American studies at Rostock University and is the author and co-editor of several works, including Metaphors of Dispossession: American Beginnings and the Translation of Empire. Christen Mucher is an associate professor of American studies at Smith College and the author of Before American History: Archives, Antiquities, and Native Pasts. Klappentext Decolonizing "Prehistory" critically examines and challenges the paradoxical role that modern historical-archaeological scholarship plays in adding legitimacy to, but also delegitimizing, contemporary colonialist practices. Using an interdisciplinary approach, this volume empowers Indigenous voices and offers a nuanced understanding of the American deep past.

Product details

• Authors: Gesa (EDT)/ Mucher MacKenthun
• Assisted by: Gesa Mackenthun (Editor), Christen Mucher (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Arizona Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2021
• EAN: 9780816546954
• ISBN: 978-0-8165-4695-4
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Archaeology of Indigenous-Colo; Archaeology of Indigenous-Colonial Interactions in the Americas
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology