Коли Говорять Інакші Інші, Або Сенс Пам’яті Та Марнота Приміток Історика

Classical historical training does not always provide young historians with the methodological tools needed to bridge cultural divides. And while it is now a commonplace to suggest that indigenous people and peasants have different ways of understanding the past than educated scholars, we have only just begun to appreciate that the very evidence used by the ethnographic «others» to create understandings of past events may be epistemologically distinct from those academics are most familiar with. This paper explores the way one Aboriginal Elder constructed knowledge of «traditional» indigenous leadership from information acquired in «dreams», and the various intellectual and interdisciplinary contortions the ethnohistorian/author underwent in order to approach an epistemological space that retained its scholarly integrity while still remaining meaningful and intelligible to his ethnographic informant.