Yurok Myths
Author: Alfred Louis Kroeber
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 532
ISBN-13: 9780520036390
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Author: Alfred Louis Kroeber
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 532
ISBN-13: 9780520036390
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: A. L. Kroeber
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-07-28
Total Pages: 430
ISBN-13: 0520319265
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980.
Author: Barbara A. Gray-Kanatiiosh
Publisher: ABDO Publishing Company
Published: 2007-01-01
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 1617849146
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEasy-to-read text and colorful illustrations and photos teach readers about Yurok history, traditions, and modern life. This book describes society and family structure, hunting, fishing, and gathering methods, and ceremonies and rituals. Readers will learn about Yurok homes, clothing, and crafts such as basketry. A traditional myth is included, as is a description of famous Yurok leader Lucy Thompson. Wars, weapons, and contact with Europeans are discussed. Topics including European influence, the formation of reservations, and federal recognition are also addressed. In addition, modern Yurok culture and still-celebrated traditions are described. Yurok homelands are illustrated with a detailed map of the United States. Bold glossary terms and an index accompany engaging text. This book is written and illustrated by Native Americans, providing authentic perspectives of the Yurok.
Author: Harry Roberts
Publisher: Trinidad Art
Published: 2016-06
Total Pages: 85
ISBN-13: 9780966416541
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of stories, poems, photographs, and short essays recalling the author's youth with a spiritual teacher revered among the Yurok people and hislifelong journey of self-discovery
Author: Samuel Alfred Barrett
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Published: 1919
Total Pages: 652
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Published: 1925
Total Pages: 576
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Published: 1927
Total Pages: 572
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Richard Erdoes
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1999-03-01
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1101174064
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOf all the characters in myths and legends told around the world, it's the wily trickster who provides the real spark in the action, causing trouble wherever he goes. This figure shows up time and again in Native American folklore, where he takes many forms, from the irascible Coyote of the Southwest, to Iktomi, the amorphous spider man of the Lakota tribe. This dazzling collection of American Indian trickster tales, compiled by an eminent anthropologist and a master storyteller, serves as the perfect companion to their previous masterwork, American Indian Myths and Legends. American Indian Trickster Tales includes more than one hundred stories from sixty tribes--many recorded from living storytellers—which are illustrated with lively and evocative drawings. These entertaining tales can be read aloud and enjoyed by readers of any age, and will entrance folklorists, anthropologists, lovers of Native American literature, and fans of both Joseph Campbell and the Brothers Grimm.
Author: Karl Kroeber
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 1998-01-01
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780803277854
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis challenging study analyzes nearly forty superb stories, from mythic narratives predating Columbus to contemporary American Indian fiction, representing every traditional Native American culture area. Developing recent ethnopoetic scholarship and drawing on the critical ideas of Mikhail Bakhtin and Pierre Bourdieu, Karl Kroeber reveals how preconceptions deriving from our hypervisual, print-dominated culture distort our understanding of essential functions and forms of oral storytelling. Kroeber demonstrates that myths do not merely preserve tradition but may transform it by performatively reenacting the concealed sociological and psychological conflicts that give rise to social institutions. Showing how the variability of mythic narrative fosters communal self-renewal, Kroeber offers startling insight into Native Americans' perception of animals as "cultured, " their creation of visually unrepresentable tricksters by aural imagining, and the rhetorical means through which oral narratives may not only reflect but even redirect political change. By making understandable the forgotten artistry of oral storytelling, Kroeber enables modern readers to appreciate fully the tragic emotions, hilarious ribaldry, and haunting beauty in these astonishing Native American mythic narratives. Karl Kroeber is Mellon Professor of Humanities at Columbia University. His most recent books are Ecological Literary Criticism: Romantic Imagining and the Biology of the Mind and Retelling/Rereading: The Fate of Storytelling in Modern Times.