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Surviving Through the Days : Translations of Native California Stories and Songs.
This anthology of treasures from the oral literature of native California includes a selection of stories, anecdotes, myths, reminiscences, and songs drawn from a wide sampling of California's many native cultures. Introductions provide cultural and biographical context.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton,
1998.
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| Colección: | California Indian reader.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- Spell said by a girl desirous of getting a husband; 8. 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""
- 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 Villian a 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.