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[Footnotes]

1 "Reframing the Book of Mormon" Sunstone, No. 121 (March 2004): 9.
2 The Travels of Marco Polo, edited by Ronald Latham (New York: Penguin Books, 1958), 33-34.
3 Il Romanzo Arturiano di Rustichello da Pisa, Edzione Critica, Traduzione e commento a cura di Fabrizio Cigni; Premessa di Valeria Bertolucci Pizzorusso (Pisa, Italy: Cassa di Riparmio di Pisa/Pacini, 1994);
Edmund G. Gardner, Arthurian Legend in Italian Literature (Whitefish, Mont.: Kessinger Publishing, 2003).
4 Latham, ed., The Travels of Marco Polo, 26
5 Ibid., 24.
6 Francis Wood, Did Marco Polo Go to China? (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1998).
7 Ibid., 133.
8 Douglas F. Salmon, "Parallelomania and the Study of Latter-day Scripture: Confirmation, Coincidence, or the Collective Unconscious?" Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 33, no. 2 (Summer 2000): 129-56.
The Salmon quotation is on p. 131.
9 Robert Patterson, "Hebraicisms, Chiasmus, and Other Internal Evidence for Ancient Authorship in Green Eggs and Ham," Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 33, no. 4 (Winter 2000): 163-68,
10 Norbert Weiner, Human Use of Human Beings (New York: Avon Books, 1986).
Michel Foucault, Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977 (New York: Pantheon Books, 1981);
Richard Rorty, Contingency, Irony, Solidarity (Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge University Press, 1989);
Stanley Fish, Is There a Text in This Class? (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1982).
Christopher Norris, Against Relativism: Philosophy of Science, Deconstruction, and Critical Theory (Oxford, Eng.: Blackwell Publishers, 1997);
Terry Eagleton, The Illusions of Postmodernism (Oxford, Eng.: Blackwell Publishers, 1996).
11 Robert A. Rees, "Joseph Smith, the Book of Mormon, and the American Renaissance," Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 35, no. 3 (Fall 2002): 87.
12 Brent Lee Metcalfe, quoted in Thomas Murphy, "Inventing Galileo," Sunstone, No. 131 (March 2004): 58.
13 Jonathan Spence, The Chans Great Continent: China in Western Minds (New York: W. W. Norton, 1999), 16-17.
"East." According to Stephen Greenblatt, whose book Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992), 57,
14 Orson Scott Card, Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (New York: Tor Books, 1997),
Eugene England "Pastwatch: The Redemption of Orson Scott Card," AML Annual 2002 (Provo, Utah: Association for Mormon Letters, 2002), 143-56.
15 Both Columbus and Joseph Smith were convinced that John 10:14-16
Delno C. West and August Kling (Gainesville: University of Horida Press, 1991), 229-30
Vine Deloria, for instance, in Red Earth, White Lies: Native Americans and the Myth of Scientific Fact (Golden, Colo.: Fulcrum Publishing, 1997)
Deloria’s radical critique of Christianity in God Is Red (Golden, Colo.: Fulcrum Publishing, 1972), 200-201,
16 Trent Stephens, "The Real Conflict," letter to the editor, Sunstone, No. 132 (May 2004): 3-4.
Sarah E. Chinn, Technology and the Logic of American Racism: A Cultural History of the Body as Evidence (New York: Continuum, 2000), chap. 5: "Reading the ’Book of Life’: DNA and the Meanings of Identity."
17 "A Pragmatist View of Contemporary Analytic Philosophy," lecture at the University of California, Irvine, Humanities Center, April 8, 2005;
19 Cecil Jane, trans, and ed., Select Documents Illustrating the Four Voyages of Columbus, 2 vols. (London: Hakluyt Society, 1930), 1:2.
J. M. Cohen, The Four Voyages of Christopher Columbus (New York: Penguin Books, 1969), 115.
20 J. L. Austin, "How to Do Things with Words," 2d ed. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1975)
Jean-Francois Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984), 9-10,
J. Hillis Miller, Speech Acts in Literature (Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2001);
Jacques Derrida, Limited, Ine. (Minneapolis, Minn.: Northwestern University Press, 1988).
21 Greenblatt, Marvelous Possessions, 57.
22 Ibid., 59.
23 Ibid., 80.
24 Angie Chabram-Dernersesian, "The Spanish Colón-ialista Narrative: Their Prospectus for Us in 1992," in Mapping Multiculturalism, edited by Avery Gordon and Christopher Newfield (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996), 215-37.
26 Armand L. Mauss, All Abraham’s Children: Changing Mormon Conceptions of Race and Lineage (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003).
28 Blake T. Ostler, The Book of Mormon as a Modern Expansion of an Ancient Source," Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 20, no. 1 (Spring 1987): 66-123;
Rees, "Joseph Smith, the Book of Mormon, and the American Renaissance";
Anthony A. Hutchinson, "The Word of God Is Enough: The Book of Mormon as Nineteenth-Century Scripture," in New Approaches to the Book of Mormon, edited by Brent Lee Metcalfe (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1993), 1-20;
C. Jess Groesbeck, "The Book of Mormon as a Symbolic History," Sunstone, No. 131 (March 2004): 35-45.
29 Armand L. Mauss, email to John Williams, 2005.
30 David H. Bailey, "No Discernible Trace," letter to the editor, Sunstone, No. 137 (May 2005): 5.
31 Douglas Campbell, "’White’ or ’Pure’: Five Vignettes," Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 29, no. 4 (Winter 1996): 119-35.
32 Mauss, All Abraham’s Children, 125.
33 Ibid., 127.
34 Ibid., 149.

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