Crossing, Bridging, and Transgressing Divides in the Study of Native North America

• Published in: Across a Great Divide p. 258
• Main Author: Stephen W. Silliman
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: University of Arizona Press 15.02.2010
• Subjects: American colonialism; American literature; American minorities; American studies; Anthropology; Archaeology; Arts; Behavioral sciences; Colonialism; Communities; Comparative literature; Cultural history; Ethnic groups; Ethnography; Ethnology; Government; Hegemony; Historical archaeology; Historical methodology; Historiography; History; History of the Americas; Human societies; Literary studies; Literature; Material culture; Native Americans; North American history; Political science; Political systems; Social groups; Social sciences; Sociology; United States history; World literature
• ISBN: 0816528713; 9780816528714

The question of history looms large in this volume. How do we write indigenous histories alongside or entangled with colonist histories? At what scale do we write those histories? With what terms do we narrate such histories, and who gets to narrate them? How can these histories cross disciplinary and temporal boundaries? What role does and should archaeology play in this process? How do we recognize and interpret the dialectic of change and continuity in indigenous histories, especially into and across pivotal moments such as the European colonization of North America? No easy answers await, but the contributors to this