Format:
Online-Ressource (xxi, 630 p)
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0520222709
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0520222695
Content:
This anthology of treasures from the oral literature of Native California, assembled by an editor admirably sensitive to language, culture, and history, will delight scholars and general readers alike. Herbert Luthin's generous selection of stories, anecdotes, myths, reminiscences, and songs is drawn from a wide sampling of California's many Native cultures, and although a few pieces are familiar classics, most are published here for the first time, in fresh literary translations. The translators, whether professional linguists or Native scholars and storytellers, are all acknowledged experts
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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C o n t e n t s; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Pronunciation Guide; Song from the myth "Kukumat Became Sick"; General Introduction; Making Texts, Reading Translations; Part 1: Selections; "Creation Songs," Cupeño; 1. Kwaw Labors to Form a World; Northwestern California; Doctor dance song, Yurok; 2. Test-ch'as (The Tidal Wave); 3. "The Young Man from Serper" and Other Stories; 4. Coyote and Old Woman Bullhead; 5. The Devil Who Died Laughing; 6. "The Boy Who Grew Up at Ta'k'imilding" and Other Stories; 7. The Bear Girl; North-Central California
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Spell said by a girl desirous of getting a husband8. How My Father Found the Deer; 9. Naponoha (Cocoon Man); 10. A Story of Lizard; 11. A Selection of Wintu Songs; 12. Loon Woman: He-who-is-made-beautiful, She-who-becomes-loon; 13. Four Songs from Grace McKibbin; 14. How I Became a Dreamer; 15. Mad Bat; 16. Creation; 17. The Trials of Young Hawk; 18. The Woman Who Loved a Snake; 19. The Dead People's Home; South-Central California; Excerpt from "The Ciq'neq's Myth"; 20. Two Stories from the Central Valley: ""Visit to the Land of the Dead"" and ""Condor Steals Falcon's Wife""
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21. The Contest between Men and Women22. The Dog Girl; Southern California; Excerpt from an account of "The Soul"; 23. The Creation; 24. A Harvest of Songs from Villiana Calac Hyde; 25. From "The Life of Hawk Feather": The Bear Episoides; 26. In the Desert with Hipahipa; 27. An Account of Origins; Part II: Essays on Native California Languages and Oral Literatures; "When I Have Donned My Crest of Stars"; A Brief History of Collection; "Women's Brush Dance Song,"; Notes on Native California Oral Literatures; Funeral speech; Notes on Native California Languages; Maps; Bibliography
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Acknowledgments of PermissionsIndex
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520222700
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Surviving Through the Days : Translations of Native California Stories and Songs, A California Indian Reader
Language:
English
