Inconstant Companions - Archaeology and North American Indian Oral Traditions

About the author

Ronald J. Mason is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology and the Henry M. Wriston Emeritus Professor of Social Science at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, and author of Great Lakes Archaeology.

Summary

Explores the tension between aboriginal oral traditions and the practice of archaeology in North America. Through copious examples across academic and ethnographic spectra and over millennia, this book examines the disparate functions of traditional 'ways of knowing' in contrast to the paradigm of science and critical historiography.

Product details

• Authors: Ronald J Mason, Ronald J. Mason
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.11.2008
• EAN: 9780817355333
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5533-3
• No. of pages: 298
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Religion and American Culture; Religion and American Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology