The problem of history for North American Indians is that historical consciousness has traditionally been irrelevant to them. In this book, anthropologists, historians, and Native and non-Native Americans question whether formal Western history has the philosophical power and imagination to enable scholars to write about Indian societies who performed in the Western vision of history only through coercion.
Read More
The problem of history for North American Indians is that historical consciousness has traditionally been irrelevant to them. In this book, anthropologists, historians, and Native and non-Native Americans question whether formal Western history has the philosophical power and imagination to enable scholars to write about Indian societies who performed in the Western vision of history only through coercion.
Read Less
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Good. The pages have an appearance of being read or studied. The pages are sun faded and slightly yellowing. We flipped through this book and didn't notice any notes or underlines. Minor shelf wear. Some corner dings. This is a paperback copy. Fast Shipping-Each order powers our free bookstore in Chicago and sending books to Africa!
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Very good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Very Good. Size: 5x0x8; The problem of history for North American Indians is that historical consciousness has traditionally been irrelevant to them, perhaps even dangerous. Time, with its attendant experiences, realities, and knowledge, was not linear, progressive, and novel. Their vision of themselves in relation to the cosmos was very different from the anthropocentric perspective that came to dominate Western thinking. Each of the eighteen authors herein wrestles with the phenomenon that in writing about Indians and whites in concert scholars are perforce trying to mesh two very different structures and systems of reality and knowledge--two fundamentally different cosmologies--which in fact do not really fit together. In essays written especially for this volume, each scholar confronts the problem from his or her distinct experience as historian, anthropologist, professional writer, Native or non-Native American. This in not a book about methodology; it probes far deeper than that. It questions whether formal Western history has the philosophical power and imagination to enable scholars to write about life and world societies who were conceived in history, who did not willingly launch themselves out onto an historical trajectory, and who performed in the Western vision and errand of history only through coercion. Here, then, is a study of the "metaphysics" of writing Indian-white history.