{"product_id":"the-american-indian-and-the-problem-of-history-9780195038569","title":"The American Indian and the Problem of History","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe problem of history for North American Indians is that historical consciousness has traditionally been irrelevant to them  perhaps even dangerous. Time  with its attendant experiences  realities  and knowledge  was not linear  progressive  and novel. Their vision of themselves in relation to the cosmos was very different from the anthropocentric perspective that came to dominate Western thinking. Each of the eighteen authors herein wrestles with the phenomenon that in writing about Indians and whites in concert scholars are perforce trying to mesh two very different structures and systems of reality and knowledge--two fundamentally different cosmologies--which in fact do not really fit together. In essays written especially for this volume  each scholar confronts the problem from his or her distinct experience as historian  anthropologist  professional writer  Native or non-Native American. This in not a book about methodology; it probes far deeper than that. It questions whether formal Western history has the philosophical power and imagination to enable scholars to write about life and world societies who were conceived in history  who did not willingly launch themselves out onto an historical trajectory  and who performed in the Western vision and errand of history only through coercion. Here  then  is a study of the \"metaphysics\" of writing Indian-white history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45789870620725,"sku":"ByrdShop_0195038568","price":25.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780195038569.jpg?v=1784701720","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-american-indian-and-the-problem-of-history-9780195038569","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}