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On Records

On Records

Delaware Indians, Colonists, and the Media of History and Memory

by Andrew Newman
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/12/2012

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Bridging the fields of indigenous, early American, memory, and media studies, On Records illuminates the problems of communication between cultures and across generations. Andrew Newman examines several controversial episodes in the historical narrative of the Delaware (Lenape) Indians, including the stories of their primordial migration to settle a homeland spanning the Delaware and Hudson Rivers, the arrival of the Dutch and the first colonial land fraud, William Penn's founding of Pennsylvania with a Great Treaty of Peace, and the "infamous" 1737 Pennsylvania Walking Purchase.


As Newman demonstrates, the quest for ideal records-authentic, authoritative, and objective, anchored in the past yet intelligible to the present-has haunted historical actors and scholars alike. Yet without "proof," how can we know what really happened? On Records articulates surprising connections among colonial documents, recorded oral traditions, and material and visual cultures. Its comprehensive, probing analysis of historical evidence yields a multifaceted understanding of events and reveals new insights into the divergent memories of a shared past.
ISBN:
9780803239869
9780803239869
Category:
Social & cultural anthropology
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
01-12-2012
Language:
English
Publisher:
University of Nebraska Press
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
328
Dimensions (mm):
229x152x30mm
Weight:
0.61kg

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