Mother Earth : an American story
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0226293726
ISBN 13
9780226293721
Category
General Library Collection
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Publication Year
1987
Publisher
Pages
196
Subject
Mother Earth (Indigenous spirituality)
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Abstract
"Attributed to Tecumseh in the early 1800s, this statement is frequently cited to uphold the view, long and widely proclaimed in scholarly and popular literature, that Mother Earth is an ancient and central Native American figure. In this radical and comprehensive rethinking, Sam D. Gill traces the evolution of female earth imagery in North America from the sixteenth century to the present and reveals how the evolution of the current Mother Earth figure was influenced by prevailing European-American imagery or America and the Indians as well as by the rapidly changing Indian reality.
Gill also analyzes the influential role of scholars in creating and establishing the imagery that underlay the recent origins of Mother Earth and, upon reflection, he raises serious questions about the nature of scholarship."--Back cover.
Gill also analyzes the influential role of scholars in creating and establishing the imagery that underlay the recent origins of Mother Earth and, upon reflection, he raises serious questions about the nature of scholarship."--Back cover.
Description
x, 196 pages ; 23 cm.
Biblio Notes
Includes index.
Number of Copies
1
