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A Man Comes from Someplace is a story of a lost world, a story in history of a multi-generational Jewish family from a shtetl in Ukraine before WWI. As cultural study, the narrative draws upon the oral stories of the author’s father, family letters, eyewitness accounts, immigration papers, et cetera, and cultural research. The narrative becomes a transformative space to re-present story as performance, a meta-narrative, and an auto-ethnography for the author to reflect upon the effects of the stories on her own life, as daughter of a survivor, and as teacher/scholar. Summerfield raises questions about immigration, survival, resilience, place and identity, how story functions as antidote to trauma, a means of making sense of the world, and as resistance, the refusal to be silenced or erased, the insistence we know the past and remember those who came before. In 2011, she found her way back to the place her family came from in Ukraine. The book is now being read by students in their ESL classes in Novokoonstantinov, Ukraine.

Jews --- Ethnohistory. --- Families --- Family history (Sociology) --- Ethnohistorical method --- Historical anthropology --- Historical ethnology --- Anthropology --- Ethnology --- History. --- Methodology

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In this volume some of the leading scholars working in Native North America explore contemporary perspectives on Native culture, history, and representation. Written in honor of the anthropologist Raymond D. Fogelson, the volume charts the currents of contemporary scholarship while offering an invigorating challenge to researchers in the field. The essays employ a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches and range widely across time and space. The introduction and first section consider the origins and legacies of various strands of interpretation, while the second part examines the relationship among culture, power, and creativity. The third part focuses on the cultural construction and experience of history, and the volume closes with essays on identity, difference, and appropriation in several historical and cultural contexts. Aimed at a broad interdisciplinary audience, the volume offers an excellent overview of contemporary perspectives on Native peoples.

Ethnology --- Ethnohistory --- Indians of North America --- Ethnohistorical method --- Historical anthropology --- Historical ethnology --- Anthropology --- Social life and customs. --- History --- Customs --- Methodology --- Fogelson, Raymond. --- North America --- Turtle Island (Continent)

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One of the most significant theoretical issues in contemporary American archaeology-the role of oral tradition in scientific research. Ronald J. Mason 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 f

Ethnohistory --- Oral tradition --- Indians of North America --- Tradition, Oral --- Oral communication --- Folklore --- Oral history --- Folk-lore, Indian --- Ethnohistorical method --- Historical anthropology --- Historical ethnology --- Anthropology --- Ethnology --- History. --- Methodology

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Indians of North America --- Ethnohistory --- Archaeology and history --- Historical archaeology --- History and archaeology --- History --- Ethnohistorical method --- Historical anthropology --- Historical ethnology --- Anthropology --- Ethnology --- History. --- Antiquities. --- Methodology --- Southern States

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Quels sont les processus de transformation d'une forme symbolique ? Comment s'importe-t-elle et s'intègre-t-elle dans des traditions et des rituels qui lui sont étrangers ? Pierre Déléage nous livre ici une belle étude de cas. Son enquête, à la croisée de l'anthropologie et de l'histoire, a pour terrain les relations qui s'établirent, au cours des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, entre des missionnaires catholiques et les Micmacs, groupe amérindien peuplant les côtes atlantiques de l'actuelle frontière séparant le Canada des États-Unis. Chez les Micmacs, la croix était un signe d'alliance diplomatique, guerrier et chamanique. Confrontés à cette situation, les missionnaires français usent d'un syncrétisme pédagogique pour propager la croix chrétienne. Quant aux « hiéroglyphes » micmacs, méthode d'inscription tout à fait exceptionnelle, ils se constituent à l'intersection des traditions pictographiques autochtones et de l'écriture alphabétique apportée par les missions. Cet ouvrage démontre la force d'innovation produite par les interactions entre des systèmes symboliques différents. Il décrit et explique comment l'hétérogénéité culturelle construit l'efficace des objets et des rituels, assure leur propagation et aboutit à l'invention de traditions nouvelles pour un groupe humain donné à un moment de son histoire.

Micmac Indians --- Crosses --- Micmac language --- Missionaries --- Symbolic anthropology. --- Rites and ceremonies. --- Writing. --- History. --- Historical anthropology --- French Canada --- Indians --- 17th-18th centuries --- Mi'kmaq --- Mi'kmaw language