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December's Child - A Book of Chumash Oral Narratives (Paperback, Revised)
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December's Child - A Book of Chumash Oral Narratives (Paperback, Revised)
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As Reviewed by Eugene N. Anderson, University of California,
Riverside in The Journal of California Anthropology, Vol. 2, No. 2
(WINTER 1975), pp. 241-244:A child born in December is "like a baby
in an ecstatic condition, but he leaves this condition" (p. 102).
The Chumash, reduced by the 20th century from one of the richest
and most populous groups in California to a pitiful remnant, had
almost lost their strage and ecstatic mental world by the time John
Peabody Harrington set out to collect what was still remembered of
their language and oral literature. Working with a handful of
ancient informants, Harrington recorded all he could--then, in
bitter rejection of the world, kept it hidden and unpublished.
After his death there began a great quest for his scattered notes,
and these notes are now being published at last. Thomas Blackburn,
among the first and most assiduous of the seekers through
Harrington's materials, has published her the main body of oral
literature that Harrington collected from the Chumash of Santa
Barbara and Ventura Counties. Blackburn has done much more: he has
added to the 111 stories a commentary and analysis, almost
book-length in its own right, and a glossary of the Chumash and
Californian-Spanish terms that Harrington was prone to leave
untranslated in the texts.
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