The Death Of Prehistory Peter R Schmidt Stephen A Mrozowski by Peter R. Schmidt & Stephen A. Mrozowski 9780199684595, 0199684596 instant download after payment.

passé. That prehistory may have outlived its usefulness as a concept has

been anticipated by its increasingly depleted vitality as a way of conceptualizing and representing the past. The literature has been hinting

towards a lingering passing since Kent Lightfoot’s milestone essay

(1995), often referenced in this book for his keen insights into the

harm and difficulties of labelling prehistory in the experiences of North

America First Nations. Our contributors to this volume came together

with a common concern: we bear witness to the harm the prehistory label

visited upon the Other, vast numbers of indigenous peoples in the

Americas, Africa, and Asia who today are trying to reclaim histories

erased or denied through the application of ‘prehistory’. That label

signifies alterity and the absence of history and its making of identity.

Rae Gould and Joseph Aguilar in this volume both write from a firstperson native perspective, more than mere witnesses to the disjunction

of their histories by prehistory. Indeed, part of their reason for entering

the academy was to bring their standpoint into scholarship in hopes of

shaping a future without prehistory