Lire la tradition orale, écrire l’histoire crie

• Published in: Anthropologie et Sociétés
• Main Author: Morantz, Toby
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: Département d’anthropologie de l’Université Laval 2002
• Subjects: Morantz; tradition orale; histoire orale; Cris de la baie James; oral tradition; oral history; James Bay Crees; museo; anthro-se; Baie James; Cris; James Bay
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.7202/007047ar; http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/007047ar

This paper follows from an earlier one in which the author questioned whether non-Native historians have the linguistic and analytic tools to interpret oral traditions and oral histories in ways that retained their integrity and cultural meaning; it concluded we do not. Here, the focus is on salvagi...