Indian Tales of North America: An Anthology for the Adult Reader: American Folklore Society Bibliographical and Special Series
Editat de Tristram Potter Coffinen Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 apr 1961
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780292735064
ISBN-10: 0292735065
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
Seria American Folklore Society Bibliographical and Special Series
ISBN-10: 0292735065
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
Seria American Folklore Society Bibliographical and Special Series
Notă biografică
Tristram P. Coffin (1922–2012) was Professor of English and Folklore at the University of Pennsylvania.
Cuprins
- Preface
- Remarks on Reading the Tales
- The Tales
- Part 1: The Way the World Is
- 1. The Emergence (Hopi)
- 2. The Earthdiver (Western Mono)
- 3. Ouiot and Frog (San Luiseño)
- 4. Theft of Fire (Southern Paiute)
- 5. Theft of Light (Tahltan)
- 6. How the Four Winds Were Created (Ojibwa)
- 7. Coyote Arranges the Seasons of the Year (Shasta)
- 8. The Origin of the Pleiades (Onondaga)
- 9. The Girl Who Married a Dog (Cheyenne)
- 10. The Deer and the Rainbow (Wyandot)
- 11. The Frogs in the Moon (Lillooet)
- 12. Afterbirth and Lodge Boy (Wichita)
- 13. Loon-Woman (Shasta)
- 14. Coyote Kills the Sucking Monster (Flathead)
- 15. Walking Skeleton (Western Mono)
- Part 2: What Man Must Know and Learn
- 16. Bloodclot (Southern Ute)
- 17. The Story of Sweet Medicine (Cheyenne)
- 18. Yellowtop-to-Head Woman (Cheyenne)
- 19. The Origin of Corn (Wabanaki)
- 20. Forgetting the Song (Zuñi)
- 21. The Conquering Gambler (Tahltan)
- 22. Star Husband (Sekani)
- 23. Northern Lights (Wabanaki)
- 24. The Land of the Dead (Coos)
- 25. Water Jar Boy (Tewa)
- 26. The Sun-Snare (Tête de Boule)
- 27. The Lecherous Father and His Daughter (Southern Ute)
- 28. The Toothed Vagina (Yurok)
- Part 3: The Excitement of Living
- 29. Rolling Skull (Cheyenne)
- 30. Rolling Rock (Flathead)
- 31. The Man Who Married a Branch (Lillooet)
- 32. The Origin of the Narwhal (Eskimo)
- 33. Grizzly Bear and Doe (lassik)
- 34. Turtle’s War-Party (Plains Ojibwa)
- 35. Porcupine and Caribou (Carrier)
- 36. Coyote Borrows Feathers (Uintah Ute)
- 37. Why Buzzard is Bald (Iowa)
- 38. The Hoodwinked Dancers (Comanche)
- 39. The Bungling Host (Southern Ute)
- 40. The Eye-Juggler (Cheyenne)
- 41. Adventures of Naniboju (Mississaga)
- 42. Adventures of Whiskey Jack (Plains Cree)
- 43. Coyote’s Amorous Adventures (Shasta)
- 44. Turtle’s Sacred War-Bundle (Iowa)
- 45. Sleeping with a Log (Iowa)
- Notes to the Tales
Descriere
Folk tales from a wide range of Native American tribes.