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Gerald Vizenor's Native Provenance challenges readers to consider the subtle ironies at the heart of Native American culture and oral traditions such as creation and trickster stories and dream songs. A respected authority in the study of Native American literature and intellectual history, Vizenor believes that the protean nature of many creation stories, with their tease and weave of ironic gestures, was lost or obfuscated in inferior translations by scholars and cultural connoisseurs, and as a result the underlying theories and presuppositions of these renditions persist in popular literature and culture. Native Provenance explores more than two centuries of such betrayal of native creativity. With erudite and sweeping virtuosity, Vizenor examines how ethnographers and others converted the inherent confidence of native stories into uneasy sentiments of victimry. He explores the connection between Native Americans and Jews through gossip theory and strategies of cultural survivance, and between natural motion and ordinary practices of survivance. Other topics include the unique element of native liberty inherent in artistic milieus; the genre of visionary narratives of resistance; and the notions of historical absence, cultural nihilism, and victimry. Native Provenance is a tour de force of Native American cultural criticism ranging widely across the terrains of the artistic, literary, philosophical, linguistic, historical, ethnographic, and sociological aspects of interpreting native stories. Native Provenance is rife with poignant and original observations and is essential reading for anyone interested in Native American cultures and literature.

Ethnology --- Indians of North America --- Folk-lore, Indian --- Intellectual life. --- Folklore. --- North America. --- Turtle Island

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Indian philosophy --- Indians in popular culture. --- Indians of North America --- Public opinion --- Public opinion. --- Folk-lore, Indian --- Philosophy --- Popular culture

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One of the most significant theoretical issues in contemporary American archaeology-the role of oral tradition in scientific research. Ronald J. Mason explores the tension between aboriginal oral traditions and the practice of archaeology in North America. That exploration is necessarily interdisciplinary and set in a global context. Indeed, the issues at stake are universal in the current era of intellectual ""decolonization"" and multiculturalism. Unless committed to writing, even the most esteemed utterances are inevitably f

Ethnohistory --- Oral tradition --- Indians of North America --- Tradition, Oral --- Oral communication --- Folklore --- Oral history --- Folk-lore, Indian --- Ethnohistorical method --- Historical anthropology --- Historical ethnology --- Anthropology --- Ethnology --- History. --- Methodology

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All students of the past bump into what seem to be impenetrable walls and are left looking longingly beyond the barrier for the lore that seems hopelessly lost. This book is an argument that all that information is not necessarily lost. It may just need a different approach-perhaps multidisciplinary, perhaps a new method, or maybe just with a new hypothesis for testing. Vanished societies have left behind masses of raw data, but it is up to us to discover new ways to look through these windows into the past. Especially in light of the growing relationship-and tensi

Indians of North America --- Social structure --- Indian mythology. --- Organization, Social --- Social organization --- Anthropology --- Sociology --- Social institutions --- Indians --- Mythology, Indian --- Mythology --- Folk-lore, Indian --- Social life and customs. --- Customs --- Religion and mythology

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Indians of North America --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- First Nations (North America) --- Indians of the United States --- Indigenous peoples --- Native Americans --- North American Indians --- Folk-lore, Indian --- Folklore. --- Culture --- Ethnology