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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455097303321

Titolo

Myth and memory [[electronic resource] ] : stories of Indigenous-European contact / / edited by John Sutton Lutz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Vancouver, : UBC Press, c2007

ISBN

1-282-59351-X

9786612593512

0-7748-5578-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LutzJohn S <1959-> (John Sutton)

Disciplina

305.8

Soggetti

Indians of North America - First contact with Europeans

Indians of North America - Historiography

Indian mythology - North America

Autochtones - Amérique du Nord

Acculturation

Mythologie indienne d'Amérique

Altérit - Aspect social

Electronic books.

North America Discovery and exploration

Europe Colonies History

Europe Colonies Histoire

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Limited edition of 500 copies.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Myth Understandings;  or First Contact, Over and Over Again; 1 Close Encounters of the First Kind; 2 First Contact as a Spiritual Performance: Encounters on the North American West Coast; 3 Reflections on Indigenous History and Memory: Reconstructing and Reconsidering Contact; 4 Poking Fun: Humour and Power in Kaska Contact Narratives; 5 Herbert Spencer, Paul Kane, and the Making of "The Chinook"; 6 Performing Paradox: Narrativity and the Lost Colony of Roanoke; 7 Stories from the Margins: Toward a More Inclusive British Columbia Historiography

8 When the White Kawau Flies9 The Interpreter as Contact Point:



Avoiding Collisions in Tlingit America; Notes; Bibliography; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z