Lushootseed texts - BIERWERT Crisca
an introduction to Puget Salish narrative aesthetics
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Hardcover, in-8, 374 pp., index.. 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...
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1996Uitgever: University of Nebraska Press in cooperation with the American Indian Studies Research Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington325 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0803212623ISBN-13: 9780803212626Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Lushootseed Texts - An Introduction to Puget Salish Narrative Aesthetics - Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians
Hardcover, in-8, 374 pp., index.. 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 199...
Lushootseed Texts - An Introduction to Puget Salish Narrative Aesthetics - Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians
Hardcover, in-8, 374 pp., index.. 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 199...
