Calvin Luther Martin Additional Author mixed material bibliography New Haven Yale University Press 1999 monographic en English

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From Native Americans, Europeans learned about corn and beans, toboggans and canoes, and finding their way around an unfamiliar landscape. Yet the Europeans learned what they wished to learn―not necessarily what the natives actually meant by their stories and their lives―says Calvin Luther Martin in this unique and powerfully insightful book. By focusing on their own questions, Martin observes, those arriving in the New World have failed to grasp the deepest meaning of Native America. Drawing on his own experiences with native people and on their stories, Martin brings us to a new conceptual landscape―the mythworld that seems unfamiliar and strange to those accustomed to western ways of thinking. He shows how native people understand the world and how human beings can and should conduct themselves within it. Taking up the profound philosophical challenge of the Native American “way of the human being,” 191.089970300085524 Transformatio Library Bandung Theological Seminary 191.08997 Mar w E99033335 Non Fiction 191.08997 Mar w 51vZ2TDEhJL._SY445_SX342_.jpg 46993 2014-12-09 10:16:07 2024-10-30 17:22:13 machine generated