Kroeber Native American Storytelling

A Reader of Myths and Legends
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-77716-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 144 Seiten, E-Book

The myths and legends in this book have been selected both fortheir excellence as stories and because they illustrate thedistinctive nature of Native American storytelling.
* * A collection of Native American myths and legends.
* Selected for their excellence as stories, and because theyillustrate the distinctive nature of Native Americanstorytelling.
* Drawn from the oral traditions of all major areas of aboriginalNorth America.
* Reveals the highly practical functions of myths and legends inNative American societies.
* Illustrates American Indians' profound engagement withtheir natural environment.
* Edited by an outstanding interpreter of Native American oralstories.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kroeber, Karl

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures.
To The Reader.
Tewa.
1. "Where They Were Living Lived Laughing Warrior Girl. .. ".
Kalispell.
2. "A Young Man (Rabbit) Lived With His Grandmother. OneDay He Pitied Her. . .".
Kathlamet.
3. "There Was A Chief Of A Town. His Relatives Live InFive Towns".
Tillamook.
4. "Wild Woman Was Living Alone. Her Husband, High ClassCrane, . . .".
Sioux.
5. "A Man Lived With His Two Wives And A Brother. One DayThe Brother. . .".
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Origins.
Cherokee (A).
6. "In The Beginning There Was No Fire, And The World WasCold, Until. . .".
Gros Ventre.
7. "The People Before The Present People Were Wild. TheyDid Not Know. . .".
Cherokee (B).
8. "When I Was A Boy This Is What The Old Men Told Me TheyHad Heard. . .".
Seneca (A).
9. "A Long Time Ago Human Beings Lived High Up In What IsNow Called. . .".
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Seneca (B).
10. "There Was A Lodge In The Forest Where Few People EverCame. . .".
Eskimo.
11. "Two Men Were Trappers. One Of Them Kept Catching ALot Of Ground Hogs; . . .".
Cherokee (C).
12. "Once When All The People Of The Settlement Were Out .. .".
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Trickster.
Three Chinook-Wishram Coyote Tales.
13. "Coyote Heard About Two Women Who Had Fish. ..".
14. "A Certain Old Man Was Sitting In The Trail With HisPenis. . .".
15. "Again Coyote Travelled Up The River. In The Water HeSaw. . .".
Clackamas (A).
16. "Coyote And His Five Children Lived There, Four Males,. . .".
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Clackamas (B).
17. "They Lived There, Seal, Her Daughter, AndSeal's Younger Brother. . . .".
Hopi.
18. "In Oraibi The People Were Living. At The West End OfThe South Row. . .".
Wintu.
19. "Long Ago There Came Into Being Some People Who HadFour Children,. . . ".
Yana.
20. "' Now Dig For Roots. The Nuts Are Already Ripe- Let's Climb. . .'".
Navajo--Mountain Chant Myth.
21. "On The Morrow, When He Went Forth On His Hunt, HisFather. . .".
Blackfoot.
22. "'There Are Two Bright Stars,'Brings-Down-The-Sun Said, 'That Sometimes. . .'.
Onondaga.
23. "Tall, Fierce, And Hostile, They Were A PowerfulTribe, The Stone Giants!".
Further Reading.
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Karl Kroeber is Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. His previous publications include Ishi in Three Centuries (ed. 2003), Artistry in American Indian Myths (1998), and Ecological Literary Criticism (1994). He is Editor Emeritus of Studies in American Indian Literature.