Lushootseed Texts - An Introduction to Puget Salish Narrative Aesthetics (Hardcover)

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. C. S. Langen, who holds a Ph.D. in English literature and is a curriculum developer for the Tulalip tribe, provides analyses of Lushootseed poetics. The book includes information about purchasing audiotapes of the stories.

General

Imprint:	University of Nebraska Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians
Release date:	April 1996
First published:	April 1996
Editors:	Crisca Bierwert
Translators:	Vi Hilbert • Thomas M. Hess • Crisca Bierwert
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards / Cloth over boards
Pages:	325
ISBN-13:	978-0-8032-1262-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Indigenous peoples Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Human biology & related topics > Biological anthropology > General
LSN:	0-8032-1262-3
Barcode:	9780803212626

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