Native American Studies: History Books Mythology Culture & Linguistic Studies (22 Book Collection) - Indigenous Histories Myths Languages and Cultural Records
Black Hawk, John Stevens Cabot Abbott, Frank Hamilton Cushing, Washington Matthews, John Wesley Powell, James Mooney, Lewis Spence, Franz Boas, John G. Bourke, Charles M. Scanlan, Charles C. Royce, Erminnie A. Smith, William John McGee, Clay MacCauley, James Owen Dorsey, Cyrus Thomas, Garrick Mallery, Alexander Scott Withers, Joseph Kossuth Dixon, Edward S. Curtis, John Heckewelder, William C. Reichel, Elias Johnson
Publisher: e-artnow
Summary
Native American Studies: History Books, Mythology, Culture & Linguistic Studies gathers twenty-two foundational, if historically uneven, texts on Indigenous nations, languages, ceremonial life, oral traditions, and colonial encounter. Moving among ethnography, linguistic inquiry, memoir, regional history, folklore, archaeology, and documentary narrative, the volume reveals both the richness of Native intellectual and cultural traditions and the changing scholarly vocabularies through which they were recorded. Studies of mythic cycles, sign systems, Pueblo and Plains lifeways, and Indigenous resistance stand beside historical accounts whose assumptions require critical reading. Its contributors include prominent nineteenth- and early twentieth-century ethnologists, historians, collectors, and public intellectuals, alongside Indigenous witnesses whose writings complicate purely outsider perspectives. Associated with the formative institutions and debates of American anthropology, salvage ethnography, philology, and western historiography, these authors preserved valuable records while often framing Native peoples through colonial categories. Read together, their varied methods expose the entanglement of knowledge production, empire, translation, and cultural survival. This collection is especially valuable for readers seeking a broad archival introduction to Native American studies and to the discipline's own history. It invites comparison across genres and regions, encourages attention to source, voice, and representation, and fosters a productive dialogue between documentary evidence, Indigenous testimony, and modern critical interpretation.
Available since: 12/15/2023.
Print length: 5841 pages.
