Inconstant companions [electronic resource] : archaeology and North American Indian oral traditions / Ronald J. Mason.
Publication details: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2006.Description: ix, 298 pISBN:- 0817315330 (alk. paper)
- 9780817315337 (alk. paper)
- 305.897 22
- E98.F6 M28 2006eb
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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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