Research Catalog

Title

Decolonizing "prehistory" : deep time and indigenous knowledges in North America / edited by Gesa Mackenthun and Christen Mucher.

Publication

• Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2021.
• ©2021

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Details

Additional Authors

• Mackenthun, Gesa, 1959-
• Mucher, Christen

Description

xiii, 271 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"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. "--

Series Statement

Archaeology of indigenous-colonial interactions in the Americas

Uniform Title

Archaeology of indigenous-colonial interactions in the Americas.

Subject

• Indians of North America > Historiography
• Archaeology and history > North America
• Nationalism and historiography
• Archaeology and history
• Historiography
• North America > Historiography
• North America

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Competing narratives of ancestry in Donald Trump's America and the imperatives for scholarly intervention / Annette Kolodny -- "Born of the soil" : demography, genetic narratives, and American origins / Christen Mucher -- Pym, Mammoth Cave, and (pre)histories of the U.S. Interior / Melissa Gniadek -- Witnessing catastrophe : correlations between catastrophic Paleoenvironmental events and First Nations' oral traditions in North America's Pacific Northwest / Rick Budhwa -- "A fearful hope" : extinction, termination, ruination, and the colonial politics of American antiquity / Gesa Mackenthun -- Myth making and unmaking : Indigenous sacred sites, settler colonial mobility, and ontological oppression / Keith Thor Carlson with Naxaxsalhts'i (Sonny McHalsie) -- Indigenous knowledge, archaeological thought, and the emerging identity crisis / Jeff Oliver -- Lilies, ice, and oil : Indigenous landscapes, settler colonialism, and deep time around the Southern Salish Sea / Coll Thrush -- Yucatec "Maya" historicity and identity constructions : the case of Coba / Jessica Christie -- The plurivocality of Tulum : "scientific" versus local narratives about Maya sites in Quintana Roo / Mathieu Picas -- Red Earth, White Lies, Sapiens, and the deep politics of knowledge / Philip J. Deloria.

Call Number

JFE 21-7750

ISBN

• 9780816542291
• 0816542295

LCCN

2020046804

OCLC

1226951858

Title

Decolonizing "prehistory" : deep time and indigenous knowledges in North America / edited by Gesa Mackenthun and Christen Mucher.

Publisher

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2021.

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Archaeology of indigenous-colonial interactions in the Americas

Archaeology of indigenous-colonial interactions in the Americas.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Mackenthun, Gesa, 1959- editor.

Mucher, Christen, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 21-7750