The Inland Whale

Nine Stories Retold from California Indian Legends
1. Auflage, with a New Foreword by Karl Kroeber Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-520-24693-5
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 212 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 134 mm x 201 mm, Gewicht: 239 g

Nine tales, selected and retold here by anthropologist and author Theodora Kroeber for the adult general-interest reader. The new foreword by her son, Karl Kroeber, provides context about the author's methods and describes his own personal connection to the stories themselves.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kroeber, Theodora

Weitere Mitwirkende

Kroeber, Karl

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreward by Karl Kroeber
Introduction

I.
The Inland Whale
Loon Woman
Butterfly Man
Dance Mad
Love Charm
Umai
About-the-House Girl
Tesilya, Sun's Daughter
The Man's Wife

II.
Some Qualities of Indian Stories
About the Stories in This Book

Sources

Über Autor(innen)

Theodora Kroeber (1897-1979) was a noted anthropologist and also the author of Ishi in Two Worlds (California). Karl Kroeber, son of Theodora Kroeber, is Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University and coeditor of Ishi in Three Centuries (2002).