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• ISBN: 0803227043
• ISBN: 9780803227040
• ISBN: 0803277539
• ISBN: 9780803277533
• Physical Description: 162 pages ; 21 cm.
• Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©1981.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

An introduction to the art of traditional American Indian narration / Karl Kroeber -- "The man eater" (Kato) -- "The fawn, the wolves, and the terrapin" (Creek) -- "Red Willow" (Nez Percé) -- From "mythic" to "fictive" in a Nez Percé Orpheus myth / Jarold Ramsey -- "Coyote and the shadow people" (Nez Percé) -- "The origin of eternal death" (Wishram) -- "Badger and coyote were neighbors" (Clackamas) -- The spoken word and the work of interpretation in American Indian religion / Dennis Tedlock -- "History myth of the coming of Ashiwi as narrated y Kyaklo" (Zuni: Stevenson translation) -- Poetic retranslation and the "pretty languages" of Yellowman / Barre Toelken and Tacheeni Scott -- "Coyote and prairie dogs" (Navajo: first translation) -- "Coyote and prairie dogs" (second translation) -- Reading Clackamas texts / Dell H. Hymes -- "Grizzly woman began to kill people" (Clackamas).

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Also issued online.

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Subject:

Indian literature > North America > History and criticism.
Folk literature, Indian > History and criticism.
Folk literature, Indian.
Indian literature.
North America.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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