Inconstant companions
Subtitle: archaeology and North American Indian oral traditions
By: Ronald J. Mason
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Folklore; Indians of North America -- History; Oral tradition -- North America; Ethnohistory -- North America
Genres: Folklore
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-286) and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: On history; title: On memory; title: Norsemen, trojans, and ancient Israelites; title: On the nature of oral tradition; title: Mixing apples and oranges, or Looking for kernels of truth; title: Mammoth remembrances; title: On the historicity of symbols and symbolic praxis; title: On the central Siouans before J. Owen Dorsey; title: Conclusions