An obvious stumbling block in this effort is the term "Indian" itself, a misnomer that homogenizes the distinctiveness of indigenous peoples. Mann emphasizes the distinct identities of "Indian" tribes, while looking to bring forth their complex political and social history. While Mann maintains that one of the main elements for this view is ignorance-there is a simple lack of materials with which to document and verify aspects of these societies-Mann also argues that the prejudices that prescribe and separate cultural identities simplify accounts. Built into this belief, Mann argues, is the prejudice that characterizes non-European societies as intrinsically "simple" and "innocent," and lacking the historical, cultural, and political sophistication of contemporaneous European societies. The author, Charles Mann, seeks to refute what he calls "Holmberg's Mistake"-the belief that no substantial cultural history existed in these regions before the arrival of European settlers and colonists. The book provides a huge hemispheric overview.” Read more.The first chapter of 1491 describes the gaps and oversimplifications of the conventional accounts of the history of the Americas, prior to the arrival of Europeans.
Mann shows that the Americas were not just an empty world waiting for Europeans to arrive and create a greater American nation – but a place where civilisation had risen and fallen, where there were great cities that contained probably as much population as Europe at the time, if not more, where corn agriculture had transformed large areas of the continent, and where Indian people had created changes in the land that left their imprint on the environment.
He goes into a great deal of detail and from that a reader gets a very different picture, not just of the Americas in 1491, but also the whole world in 1491. Mann shows how a new generation of researchers equipped with novel scientific techniques have come. He pulls together a lot of the new research over the last generation in one place and provides the reader with a helicopter overview of the American hemisphere on the eve of contact. 1491 : new revelations of the Americas before Columbus /.
Each episode shows us via re-enactments about a particular. “Charles Mann’s 1491 is subtitled “New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus”. 9.1M views 7 months ago This series tells us about indigenous peoples of the Americas before the Spanish explorer Columbus arrived.
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