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The bungling host : the nature of Indigenous oral literature /
"The Bungling Host motif appears in countless Indigenous cultures in North America and beyond. In this groundbreaking work Daniel Clément has gathered more than four hundred North American variants of the story to examine how myths acquire meaning for their Indigenous users and explores how se...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2018]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; 1. Caribou Takes In His Wife's Dress (Subarctic); 2. Snake Makes a Meal in the Embers (Southwest); 3. The Fire Trap (Grand Basin); 4. While Bird Sings, Bear Cooks (Northwest Coast); 5. Seal Roasts His Hands (Northwest Coast); 6. Silver Fox Digs Up Yellow Jacket Larvae with His Penis (California); 7. Wildcat Beats a Blanket (California); 8. Deer Kills Her Children and Puts Their Bones Into the Water (Southwest); 9. Wolf Transforms Two Arrowheads into Mincemeat Puddings (Southwest).
- 10. Badger Pushes a Stick Down His Throat and Gets Yucca-Juice (Southwest)11. Bison Skewers His Nose (Plains); 12. White-Tailed Deer Shoots at a Red Clay Bank (Plains); 13. Man Kills Bison with His Sharpened Leg (Plains, Plateau); 14. Black-Mountain-Bear Gets Persimmons by Leaning Against a Tree (Southeast); 15. Rabbit Gathers Canes (Southeast); 16. Squirrel Slits Open His Scrotum (Plains); 17. Duck Excretes Rice (Northeast); 18. Bird Gets Salmon Eggs by Striking His Ankle (Northwest Coast); 19. Muskrat Cooks Some Ice (Northeast); 20. Woodpecker Pulls Eels Out of Trees (Subarctic); Conclusion.