| Description |
1 online resource (249 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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Borderlands and Transcultural Studies
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Borderlands and transcultural studies.
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| Note |
Description based upon print version of record. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Alternative Ways of Remembering and Knowing -- 2. "Positional Inheritance" in Africa -- 3. The Narration of Ho-De'-No-Sau-Nee (Iroquois) History -- 4. The Making of Andean Ancestral Traditions -- 5. Reflections on Oral Traditions as History -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index |
| Summary |
In Praise of the Ancestors is a revisionist interpretation of early colonial accounts and sources that reveal incongruities in accepted knowledge among the Indigenous peoples of sub-Saharan Africa, the North American Great Lakes regions, and the Andes. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Incas -- Moeurs et coutumes.
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Incas. |
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Lulua (Peuple d'Afrique) -- Moeurs et coutumes.
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Tradition orale -- Études de cas.
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Incas -- Social life and customs.
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Incas -- Social life and customs. |
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Iroquois Indians -- Social life and customs.
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Iroquois Indians -- Social life and customs. |
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Lulua (African people) -- Social life and customs.
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Lulua (African people) |
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Manners and customs. |
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Oral tradition -- Case studies.
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Oral tradition. |
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Case studies.
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Onomastics -- America -- Case studies.
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America. |
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Onomastics -- Andes -- Case studies.
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Andes. |
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Onomastics -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Case studies.
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Sub-Saharan Africa. |
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Names, Personal -- Andean -- Case studies.
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Names, Personal -- Iroquois -- Case studies.
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Names, Personal -- Iroquois. |
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Names, Personal -- Luba-Lulua -- Case studies.
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Names, Personal -- Luba-Lulua. |
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Onomastics. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Caribbean & Latin American Studies. |
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Names, Personal -- Andean. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African Studies. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies. |
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Case studies.
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| Added Title |
Names, identity, and memory in Africa and the Americas |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Ramirez, Susan Elizabeth In Praise of the Ancestors Lincoln : Nebraska,c2022 9781496230256 |
| ISBN |
1496232070 |
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9781496232076 (electronic book) |
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9781496230256 |
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1496230256 |
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9781496231475 |
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1496231473 |
