Native American oral traditions : collaboration and tradition

Evers, Larry. (Added Author). Toelken, Barre, 1935- (Added Author).

Summary: A collaboration between Native American and non-Native American scholars in the study of Native oral traditions. Seven sets of intercultural authors present Native American oral texts with commentary, exploring dimensions of perspective, discovery, and meaning that emerge through collaborative translation and interpretation. The texts studied all come from the American West, but include a rich variety of material, since their tribal sources range from the Yupik in the Arctic to the Yaqui in the Sonoran Desert.

Record details

ISBN: 0874214157
ISBN: 9780874214154
ISBN: 0874214165
ISBN: 9780874214161
Physical Description: print
xvi, 242 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Publisher: Logan : Utah State University Press, ©2001.

Content descriptions

General Note:	"Originally published, without the foreword, in Oral tradition 13, no. 1 (March 1998)"--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Foreword / John Miles Foley -- Collaboration in the translation and interpretation of Native American oral traditions / Larry Evers and Barre Toelken -- "Like this it stays in your hands": collaboration and ethnopoetics / Felipe S. Molina and Larry Evers -- Tracking "Yuwaan Gagéets": a Russian fairy tale in Tlingit oral tradition / Nora Marks Dauenhauer and Richard L. Dauenhauer -- Reading Martha Lamont's crow story today / Marya Moses and Toby C.S. Langen -- Collaborative sociolinguistic research among the Tohono O'odham / Ofelia Zepeda and Jane Hill -- "Wu-ches-erik (loon woman) and Ori-aswe (wildcat)" / Darryl Babe Wilson and Susan Brandenstein Park -- Coyote and the strawberries: cultural drama and intercultural collaboration / George B. Wasson and Barre Toelken -- "There are no more words to the story" / Elsie P. Mather and Phyllis Morrow.