ISBN:
9780684807003
,
0684807009
Language:
English
Pages:
286 S.
,
23 cm
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Treat, James Red Earth, White Lies: Native Americans and the Myth of Scientific Fact 1997
DDC:
398.08997
Keywords:
Indians of North America Folklore
;
Indian philosophy North America
;
Oral tradition North America
;
Science Philosophy
;
Religion and science
;
Human evolution Religious aspects
;
Christianity
;
Nordamerika
;
Indianer
;
Mythologie
;
Philosophie
;
Wissenschaft
Description / Table of Contents:
Behind the buckskin curtain -- Science and the oral tradition -- Evolutionary prejudice -- Low bridge-everybody cross -- Mythical Pleistocene hit men -- The corpora delicti and other matters -- Creatures their own size -- Geomythology and the Indian traditions -- Floods, lakes and earthquakes -- At the beginning.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index
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