Practicing Ethnohistory: Mining Archives, Hearing Testimony, Constructing Narrative

by Patricia Kay Galloway

Book Overview

Practicing Ethnohistory is a compendium of twenty-one essays on ethnohistorical historiography. The essays, preceded by a contextualizing introduction, are organized under four topical heads: textual historiography, positive analytic methods using nontextual physical evidence, ethnohistorical synthesis, and the ethical-contextual issues of ethnohistory. Part 1 focuses on issues such as concerns over the editing of ethnohistorical materials, the limitations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803271158
• ISBN13: 9780803271159
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"