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Californian Indian Nights (Paperback)
Edward W. Gifford, Gwendoline Harris Block; Introduction by Albert L. Hurtado
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"The rereading of these folklore selections in this attractively
printed volume underscores again the uniqueness of California
mythology...The tales that make up the mythology there are not the
worn stand-bys of the world; these tales from the Pacific coast
have a freshness of invention that one discovers all too seldom in
collections of folklore. They are surprisingly indige-nous."--Ruth
Benedict, American Anthropologist. "The volume is organized in such
a way that it will be useful to students of literature as well as
to students of anthropology, but the authors have not sacrificed
accuracy and the critical use of their material in order to produce
any kind of spurious picturesqueness. The volume is well gotten up
and attractively illustrated."--Margaret Mead, Annals of the
American Academy of Political and Social Science. "This is a most
laudable attempt to make available to a general laity a
representative collection of Californian Indian myths and
tales."--Truman Michelson, American Historical Review. The
compilers, Edward W. Gifford and Gwendoline Harris Block, were both
associated with the University of California, Berkeley, Gifford as
a professor of anthropology and director of the Museum of
Anthropology and Block as an editor in the Department of
Anthropology. Albert L. Hurtado, who provided an introduction for
the Bison Book edition, is an associate professor of history at
Arizona State University and the author of Indian Survival on the
California Borderland Frontier, 1819-6 (1988), winner of the Ray A.
Billington Prize for American frontier history.
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