Inconstant Companions
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Author_Ronald J. Mason
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- ISBN 9780817355333
- Weight: 541g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 16 Nov 2008
- Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Inconstant Companions 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 forgotten with the passing of generations, however much the succeeding ones try to reproduce what they think they had heard. Writing shares with archaeological remains a greater, if unequal, durability. Through copious examples across academic and ethnographic spectra and over millennia, Mason examines the disparate functions of traditional 'ways of knowing' in contrast to the paradigm of science and critical historiography.
Ronald J. Mason is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology and the Henry M. Wriston Emeritus Professor of Social Science at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, and author of Great Lakes Archaeology.
