Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Alternative Ways of Remembering and Knowing -- 2. "Positional Inheritance" in Africa -- 3. The Narration of Ho-De'-No-Sau-Nee (Iroquois) History -- 4. The Making of Andean Ancestral Traditions -- 5. Reflections on Oral Traditions as History -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary
In Praise of the Ancestors is a revisionist interpretation of early colonial accounts and sources that reveal incongruities in accepted knowledge among the Indigenous peoples of sub-Saharan Africa, the North American Great Lakes regions, and the Andes
