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Decolonizing "prehistory" : deep time and indigenous knowledges in North America

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.
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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.

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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.

ISBN

9780816542291
0816542295
9780816546954
0816546959

LCCN

2020046804
99990333243
40030533797

OCLC

on1226951858
1226951858

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Columbia University Libraries