In Praise of the Ancestors: Names, Identity, and Memory in Africa and the Americas

by Susan Elizabeth Ramírez and Susan E. Ramirez

Book Overview

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 knowledge about three Native groups.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496231473
• ISBN13: 9781496231475
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"