Decolonizing "prehistory" : deep time and Indigenous knowledges in North America
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- ISBN: 9780816542291 (hardcover)
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xiii, 271 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm - Publisher: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2021.
- Copyright: ©2021
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction -- Competing narratives of ancestry in Donald Trump's America and the imperatives for scholarly intervention -- "Born of the soil": demography, genetic narratives, and American origins -- Pym, Mammoth Cave, and (pre)histories of the U.S. interior -- Witnessing catastrophe: correlations between catastrophic paleoenvironmental events and First Nations' oral traditions in North America's Pacific Northwest -- "A fearful hope": extinction, termination, ruination, and the colonial politics of American antiquity -- Myth making and unmaking: Indigenous sacred sites, settler colonial mobility, and ontological oppression -- Indigenous knowledge, archaeological thought, and the emerging identity crisis -- Lilies, ice, and oil: Indigenous landscapes, settler colonialism, and deep time around the southern Salish Sea -- Yucatec "Maya" historicity and identity constructions: the case of Coba -- The plurivocality of Tulum: "scientific" versus local narratives about Maya sites in Quintana Roo -- Red earth, white lies, sapiens, and the deep politics of knowledge. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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The Pas Campus Library | E 76.8 .D43 2021 (Text) | 58500001111160 | Stacks | Volume hold | Available | - |