The Way of the Human Being
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Calvin Luther Martin
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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,”
Martin leads us to rethink our entire sense of what is real and how we know the real.
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,”
Martin leads us to rethink our entire sense of what is real and how we know the real.
Calvin Luther Martin, formerly a professor of history at Rutgers University, now lives and writes in the Adirondacks. He spent a summer on the Navajo reservation and lived for two years with Yup’ik Eskimos in southwestern Alaska. His books on Native America include Keepers of the Game: Indian-Animal Relation-ships and the Fur Trade, winner of the American Historical Association’s Albert J. Beveridge Award for the year’s best book in American history.
ISBN: 9780300085525
Publication Date: July 11, 2000
Publication Date: July 11, 2000
256 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/4
