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Northern Tales: Traditional Stories of Eskimo and Indian Peoples de Howard Norman

Northern Tales: Traditional Stories of Eskimo and Indian Peoples

Editat de Howard Norman
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 noi 2008
With tales from the tribal peoples of Greenland, Canada, Siberia, Alaska, Japan, and the polar region, told and retold during months-long winter nights, Northern Tales gathers together a rich diversity of traditions and cultures, spanning the Way-Back Time through the coming of the first white explorers. By turns tragic and comic, fantastic and earthy, frivolous and profound, this collection transports the reader to the haunting, little-known world of the far North, with all its fragile majesty and power.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780803218796
ISBN-10: 0803218796
Pagini: 368
Ilustrații: 2 maps, 71 drawings
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: BISON BOOKS
Colecția Bison Books
Locul publicării:United States

Notă biografică

Howard Norman is the author of numerous books, most recently Devotion, In Fond Remembrance of Me, and The Bird Artist. He was twice a finalist for the National Book Award in fiction and has received a Lannan Literary Award, three National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, and the Harold Morton Landon Prize in translation from the Academy of American Poets. He is a professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Cuprins

Introduction
Eskimo Territories
Indian Territories
A Note to the Reader
PART ONE - The Embarrassment of the Cranberry Partners: Stories of Village Life
The Embarrassment of the Cranberry Partners (Montagnais Indian)
Eviksheen the Grass-User (Kobuk River Eskimo)
The Girl Who Watched in the Nighttime (Siberian Eskimo)
Uteritsoq, the Obstinate One (East Greenland Eskimo)
The Chuginadak Woman (Aleut)
The Boy Who Became an Arctic Tern (Naupaktomiut Eskimo)
The Little Old Lady Who Lived Alone (Athapaskan)
Qasiagssaq, the Great Liar (East Greenland Eskimo)
Witiko Father and Son Bested by a Conjuror (James Bay Cree)
Alder-Block (Yukaghir)
The Crow Story (Tanaina Indian)
Stingy Reindeer Owners (Lamut)
Fourteen with One Stroke (Chippewa)
PART TWO - Why Owls Die with Wings Outspread: How Things Got to Be the Way They Are
How the Earth Was Made and How Wood-Chips Became Walrus (Maritime Chukchee)
The First Snowshoes (Athapaskan)
Gambling Sory (Dena'ina Indian)
Story While Pointing at a Constellation: A Dogrib Conversation (Dogrib Indian)
Why Owls Die with Wings Outsprad (Swampy Cree)
When Musk Oxen Spoke Like Humans (Iglulik Eskimo)
Why the Path Between Fish-Camps Is Always Worn Down and No One Walks It Any More (Hare Indian)
What Is the Earth? (Greenland Eskimo)
How the Narwhal Got Its Tusk (Greenland Eskimo)
Ayas'e and the Origin of Bats (Timagami Ojibwa)
The Loon and the Raven (Repulse Bay Eskimo)
The Giant Skunk and His Offspring (Attikamek Indian)
A Yukaghir Tale of the Origin of the Chukchee (Yukaghir)
Which Animals Are on the Moon (Noatagmiut Eskimo)
Why Rattlesnakes Don't Cross the River (Thompson Indian)
The First White Man (Hare Indian)
PART THREE - Endless Trouble, Endless Wandering: Tricksters and Culture Heroes
Smart Beaver Cycle (Tagish Indian) Little Beaver Meets Giant, Beaver Man Meets Mink Lady, Beaver Man Meets Otter Man, Beaver Man Meets Wolverine, Beaver Man Meets Giant Bear, Beaver Man Faces Four Trials, Beaver Man Fights Bears, Beaver Man Meets Sheep
Kuloscap Tales (Micmac) How Kuloscap Dealt with Ice Giants, How Kuloscap Saved His Uncle Turtle's Life, Why Loons Don't Get Stuck Any More in Bottom Weeds, Kuloscap and the Witch, How Kuloscap Sang Through Rapids and Returned His Family Home
The Wenebojo Myth (Chippewa) The Sun Impregnates a Girl, The Girl Gives Birth to Triplets, Wenebojo Kills His Stone Brother, Wenebojo Causes His Second Brother's Death, Wenebojo's Brother Makes the Road to the Other World, Wenebojo Assumes the Form of a Beaver, Hoodwinked Dancers, Wenebojo Becomes Depressed and Threatens All the Spirits, The Spirits Try to Appease Wenebojo, The Spirits Give Wenebojo Some Parents and Establish the Medicine Dance
PART FOUR - The Stubborness of Bluejays: Stories About Animals
The Bear Goes on His Long, Solitary Journey (Greenland Eskimo)
Bluejay's Revenge (Shuswap Indian)
The Wolverine Loses His Shoes (Gwich'in Indian)
Skunk's Tears (Thompson Indian)
The Duck Whose Grandmother Was Out of Her Wits (Chuvantzi)
The Helldiver and the Spirit of Winter (Chippewa)
The Stubbornness of Bluejays (Cree)
Coyote and Fox (Shuswap Indian)
The Owl Woman (Dogrib Indian)
Crow and Camp Robber (Dena'ina Indian)
Why Brown Bears Are Hostile Towards Men (Chugach Eskimo)
The Wolverine Grudge (Woodland Cree)
The Whale, the Sea Scorpion, the Stone, and the Eagle (Iglulik Eskimo)
PART FIVE - Carried Off by the Moon: Shaman Stories
Carried Off by the Moon (Netsilik Eskimo)
Story of a Female Shaman (Reindeer Chukchee)
How the False Shaman Was Flung by Walrus (Caribou Eskimo)
Things Seen by the Shaman Karawe (Chukchee)
The Curing-Fox Windigo (Swampy Cree)
Kinigseq (Greenland Eskimo)
How a Bagpipe Drew Hunters from the Outskirts (Caribou Eskimo)
Song of Spider Goddess (Ainu)
Desire for Light (Mackenzie Delta Eskimo)
Aksikukuk and Kukrukuk (Naupaktomiut Eskimo)
Encounter with the Shaman from Padlei (Caribou Eskimo)
PART SIX - Thrashing Spirits and Ten-Legged Polar Bears: Stories of Strange and Menacing Neighbors
The Birth of Tchakapesh (Naskapi Indian)
The Thrashing Spirit with a Bearded Seal for a Whip (Iglulik Eskimo)
The Mother of Sea Beasts (Netsilik Eskimo)
Brushmen (Vanta-Kutchin Indian)
Ayaje's Wives with Forearms Like Awls (Naskapi Indian)
Three Sisters and the Demon (Ainu)
The Giant Rat (Eyak Indian)
The Ghost (Mackenzie Delta Eskimo)
The Giants (Point Hope Eskimo)
The Woman Who Ate Men (East Greenland Eskimo)
The Wrong-Chill Windigo (Swampy Cree)
Ipiup Inua, the Spirit of the Precipice (Iglulik Eskimo)
Inugpasugssuk the Giant (Netsilik Eskimo)
The Four Cannibals (Shuswap Indian)
Kivioq, Whose Kayak Was Full of Ghosts (West Greenland Eskimo)
The Ten-Legged Polar Bear (Barrow Eskimo)
The Monster Fish in the Lake (Gwich'in Indian)
The Attainable Border of the Birds (Chukchee)
PART SEVEN - The Day Auks Netted Hid-Well: Hunting Stories
The Dream That Came Back (Mistassini Cree)
The Hunter and the Goats (Thompson Indian)
Agdlumaloquq, Who Hunted at the Blowholes in a Far, Foreign Land (Iglulik Eskimo)
The Moose Among the Chandalar River People (Gwich'in Indian)
The Woman Who Put a Bucket over a Caribou's Head (Point Barrow Eskimo)
The Day Auks Netted Hid-Well (Polar Eskimo)
Lake-Dwarves (Eyak Indian)
The Mammoth Hunters (Kobuk River Eskimo)
Why Woolly Mammoths Decided to Flee Underground (Caribou Eskimo)
Sometimes a Seal Hunt Goes Like This (Songish Indian)
PART EIGHT - Wolf's Bride, Star Husbands: Stories About All Sorts of Marriages
Raven Didn't Stick Around (Tlingit Indian)
Kivioq, Who Left His Home Because His Wife Was Unfaithful (East Greenland Eskimo)
The Windigo Almost Prevents a Marriage (Swampy Cree)
The Star Husbands (Athapaskan)
The Girl Who Married the Bear (Tlingit Indian)
How Whiskey-Jack Man Got Married (Naskapi Indian)
The Woman and the Octopus (Eyak Indian)
The Marriage of Mink (Nootka Indian)
The Wolf's Bride (Cape Prince of Wales Eskimo)
The Girl Who Married a Whale (Chukchee)
The Man Who Married a Fox (East Greenland Eskimo)
Go Away (Snowdrift Chipewyan)
Source Notes
Bibliography

Recenzii

“A brief introduction before each type of traditional tale reflects the tribal and cultural concerns as well as the diversity of people who are deeply involved in and influenced by natural phenomena, animals, shamans, and the supernatural. Through humor and fantasy as well as earthy wisdom, the tale-tellers point out that ‘stories are not just about living things, they are living things.’ Through this book, a way of life is revealed and preserved.”—School Library Journal

“This anthology includes a wide range of arctic and subarctic residents. Within this vast geographical coverage, the common concerns of a harsh environment and of the interdependent survival of nature and humanity become central elements that tie the individual pieces together. Norman arranges his selections by type and subject and contributes a short introduction to each section; otherwise, he allows his storytellers to speak eloquently for themselves.”—Booklist

“There are 116 folktales in this gathering from the myriad cultures of the North. Drawn from regions from Siberia to Greenland, Canada and the Aleutian Islands, the stories represent a diversity of landscapes as well as of human and animal relationships. Arranged, with their origins identified, by folklorist Norman (Northern Lights), the tales illuminate arctic and subarctic village life, shamans, hunting and marriage customs. Animals are often central, especially the raven and fox, who take on human qualities. Humor is part of the trickster stories ('Beaver Man Meets Mink Lady'); the Cree Indian heritage preserves the essential Northern hunting experience; mythic elements of intercourse between animals or spirits and humans are pervasive. Cautionary and pedagogical tales, as well as those told at special times and places, round out this chronicle of tribal oral traditions.”—Publishers Weekly

“Fascinating. . . . [Norman] provides excellent background for each tale. . . . [A] superb book.”—Washington Times

“What gives these tales vibrancy is that they are . . . so full of struggle and celebration within the mind of nature.”—Boston Globe

"It's good to see Northern Tales back in print. We don't want stories like these to be forgotten. They remind us that even though Native Americans lacked the written word, they possessed an abundance of great literature. And thanks to books like this it's a literature we can all share now."—David A. James, Newsminer.com