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The American Indian and the Problem of History (Paperback)
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The problem of history for North American Indians is that
historical consciousness has traditionally been irrelevant to them,
perhaps even dangerous. Time, with its attendant experiences,
realities, and knowledge, was not linear, progressive, and novel.
Their vision of themselves in relation to the cosmos was very
different from the anthropocentric perspective that came to
dominate Western thinking. Each of the eighteen authors herein
wrestles with the phenomenon that in writing about Indians and
whites in concert scholars are perforce trying to mesh two very
different structures and systems of reality and knowledge--two
fundamentally different cosmologies--which in fact do not really
fit together. In essays written especially for this volume, each
scholar confronts the problem from his or her distinct experience
as historian, anthropologist, professional writer, Native or
non-Native American. This in not a book about methodology; it
probes far deeper than that. It questions whether formal Western
history has the philosophical power and imagination to enable
scholars to write about life and world societies who were conceived
in history, who did not willingly launch themselves out onto an
historical trajectory, and who performed in the Western vision and
errand of history only through coercion. Here, then, is a study of
the "metaphysics" of writing Indian-white history.
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