In Praise of the Ancestors: Names, Identity, and Memory in Africa and the Americas - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Susan Elizabeth RamirezSeries:Borderlands and Transcultural StudiesPublish date:2022-06-01Pages:248
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Nebraska PressISBN-13:9781496231475ISBN-10:1496231473UPC:9781496231475Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Cultural & Ethnic Studies, Native American StudiesBook Topic:African Studies, Caribbean & Latin American StudiesSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.56 inchesWeight:0.8113Product ID:SC9WEW9WCP
In Praise of the Ancestors: Names, Identity, and Memory in Africa and the Americas
Apart from collective memories of lived experiences, much of the modern world's historical sense comes from written sources stored in the archives of the world, and some scholars in the not-so-distant past have described unlettered civilizations as "peoples without history." In Praise of the Ancestors is a revisionist interpretation of early colonial accounts that reveal incongruities in accepted...
Series: Borderlands and Transcultural Studies
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Nebraska PressISBN-13:9781496231475ISBN-10:1496231473UPC:9781496231475Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Cultural & Ethnic Studies, Native American StudiesBook Topic:African Studies, Caribbean & Latin American StudiesSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.56 inchesWeight:0.8113Product ID:SC9WEW9WCP
Susan Elizabeth Ram?rez is the Neville G. Penrose Chair of History and Latin American Studies at Texas Christian University. She is the author of several books, including To Feed and Be Fed: The Cosmological Bases of Authority and Identity in the Andes and A History of Colonial Latin America from First Encounters to Independence.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
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