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Lushootseed texts : an introduction to Puget Salish narrative aesthetics / narrated by Emma Conrad, Martha Lamont, Edward (Hagen) Sam ; translated by Crisca Bierwert, Vi Hilbert, Thomas M. Hess ; edited by Crisca Bierwert ; with annotations by T.C.S. Langen.
This volume introduces the oral literature of Native American peoples in Puget Salish–speaking areas of western Washington. Seven stories told by Lushootseed elders are transcribed and translated into English, accompanied by information on narrative design and cultural background. Upper Skagit elder and cotranslator Vi Hilbert, a 1994 recipient of the NEH National Heritage Fellowship in Folk Arts, includes a cultural welcome and offers childhood reminiscences of the storytellers. Cotranslator Thomas M. Hess, associate professor of linguistics at the University of Victoria, parses the beginning lines of a text to show the grammatical structures; he also includes his recollections of working with the storytellers in the 1960s as a graduate student. Editor and cotranslator Crisca Bierwert, assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan, provides information on the processes of language translation and of rendering oral traditions into written form. Annotator T. C. S. Langen, who holds a Ph.D. in English literature and is a curriculum developer for the Tulalip tribe, provides analyses of Lushootseed poetics.
Record details
- ISBN: 0803212623
- ISBN: 9780803212626
- Physical Description: viii, 325 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press in cooperation with the American Indian Studies Research Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, ©1996.
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-322) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Acknowledgments -- Editor's introduction / Crisca Bierwert -- Introduction / Vi Hilbert -- The documentation of Lushootseed language and literature / Thomas M. Hess -- Notes on producing this volume / Crisca Bierwert -- Notes on the songs in texts 1, 2, and 3 / Tara Browner -- Remembering the storytellers: Levi Lamont / Vi Hilbert ; Emma Conrad / Vi Hilbert ; Starting Fieldwork / Thomas M. Hess ; Edward (Hagan) Sam / Thomas M. Hess ; Emma Conrad / Thomas M. Hess ; Martha and Levi Lamont / Thomas M. Hess -- Translator's introduction / Crisca Bierwert -- Luhootseed grammar in an annotated text / Thomas M. Hess -- Annotator's introduction / T.C.S. Langen. -- Text. 1. Changer story / Martha Lamont -- Text 2. The marriage of Crow / Martha Lamont -- Text 3. Crow is sick / Martha Lamont -- Text 4. Shaman cure / Edward (Hagan) Sam -- Text 5. The legend of the boy who could not walk / Emma Conrad -- Text 6. The All-year-around story / Emma Conrad -- Text 7. The story of the seal hunters / Martha Lamont. -- Bibliography -- Index.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lummi Library | PM 2263 .L87 L87 1996 | 279358 | Stacks | Available | - |
| Lummi Library | PM 2263.L87 L87 1996 | 288649 | Stacks | Available | - |
| Lummi Library | PNW PM 2263 .L87 L87 1996 | 244817 | PNW | Available | - |
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