Oral tradition as emplacement

Ancestral Blackfoot memories of the Rocky Mountain Front

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2405484
AutoresM Nieves Zedeño (0000-0002-3647-609X, University of Arizona, autor correspondente), Evelyn Pickering (School of Anthropology, The University of Arizona, USA), François Lanoë (0000-0002-4627-140X, Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, School of Anthropology, The University of Arizona, USA)
Ano2021
Volume21
Fascículo3
Páginas306-328
Data de publicação2021-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Social Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1469-6053 • E-ISSN: 1741-2951
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/14696053211019837
OpenAlexW3167000327
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas13
Referências citadas40

We highlight the significance of process, event, and context of human practice in Indigenous Creation traditions to integrate Blackfoot 'Napi' origin stories with environmental, geological, and archaeological information pertaining to the peopling of the Northwestern Plains, where the northern Rocky Mountain Front may have played a prominent role. First, we discuss the potential and limitations of origin stories generally, and Napi stories specifically, for complementing the fragmentary records of early human presence in the Blackfoot homeland. Second, we demonstrate the intimate connection among processes, events, place-making practices, and stories. Last, we aim to expand multivocality in the interpretation of the deep past through an archaeological practice that considers Indigenous philosophies and stories to be as valid as non-Indigenous ones

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