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The
Way of the Human Being. 1999. ..the deepest meaning of Native America
The
Way of the Human Being. By Calvin Luther Martin. Yale
University Press, New Haven (1999) - xii,235 pages. Size: 8-1/2 Inches. Hard
cover. Dust jacket. Inscribed/signed on
the front end page by the author to Mike. Re: “Michael McGiffert, College of
William and Mary.” Overall very good condition.
- - - Co-winner of the Fifth Anne Izard Storytellers’
Choice Award sponsored by the Westchester County Library System.
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 myth world 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.
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