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Paperback In Praise of the Ancestors: Names, Identity, and Memory in Africa and the Americas Book
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ISBN: 1496231473

ISBN13: 9781496231475

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

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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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