A Forest of Time American Indian Ways of History Nabokov Paperback 9780521568746

About this Item\n\nThe item is a book paperback or softback\nThe Author Name is Nabokov, Peter\nThe Title is A Forest of Time: American Indian Ways of History\n\nCondition New\n\nOther Comments\nPages Count - 260. Binding type - Perfect. \nContent Language - English\nCategory - HISTORY / Indigenous / General\nHISTORY / United States / General\nSOCIAL SCIENCE / General\n\nProduct Description -\nA Forest of Time, first published in 2002, is the first introduction for undergraduates, graduates and general readers to the notion that American Indian societies had vital interests in interpreting and transmitting their own histories in their own ways, for themselves. Drawing upon his own varied research as well as sampling the latest in scholarship from ethnohistory, anthropology, folklore and Indian studies, Dr Nabokov offers dramatic examples of how native peoples also put rituals and material culture, landscape, prophecies, and even the English language to the urgent service of keeping t4