A story as sharp as a knife the classical Haida mythtellers and their world
Record details
- ISBN: 9781553658900 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 1553658906 (electronic bk.)
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Physical Description:
electronic resource
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1 online resource (541 p.) : ill., maps, port., digital file. - Edition: 2nd ed.
- Publisher: Vancouver [B.C.] : Douglas & McIntyre, c2011
Content descriptions
General Note: | CatMonthString:january.17 Issued as part of the desLibris books collection. CatBulkString:sept.20.12 Multi-User. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 501-526) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Prologue : reading what cannot be written -- Goose food -- Spoken music -- The one they hand along -- Wealth has big eyes -- Oral tradition and the individual talent -- The anthropologist and the dogfish -- Who's related to whom? -- The epic dream -- The shaping of the canon -- The flyting of Skaay and Xhyuu -- You are that too -- Sleek blue beings -- The iridescent silence of the trickster -- The last people in the world -- A knife that could open its mouth -- The historian of Ttanuu -- Chase what's gone -- A blue hole in the heart -- The prosody of meaning -- Shellheap of the spirit-beings -- 1 November 1908 -- How the town mother's wife became the widow of her husband's sister's sons -- Political afterword -- Appendix 1 : Spelling, pronounciatio and Native American typography -- Appendix 2 : Haida geograpy and village names -- Appendix 3 : The structure of Skaay's Raven Travelling. |
Language Note: | Includes some text in Haida. |
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