This Is What They Say
GBP 25.99
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| ISBN13: | 9780295989334 |
| ISBN10: | 0295989335 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| No. of pages: | 288 pages |
| Size: | 229x152 mm |
| Weight: | 431 g |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 10 illus. |
| 700 |
2010 American Book Award Winner
Chipewyan is one of the many Northern Athapaskan languages spoken in Alaska and western Canada. Mandeville's story cycle is a rich picture of traditional life and thought in the Northern Athapaskan world
Foreword by Robert Bringhurst
Translator's Preface
PART I: The Stories
1. How Copper Was Discovered
2. How Iron Was Discovered
3. Raven Head
4. His Grandmother Raised Him
5. Scabby
6. Old Axe - Story One
7. Old Axe - Story Two
8. The Cannibal
9. The Man Who Hibernated with a Bear
10. The Adventures of Beaulieu
11. The Man Who Became a Wolf
12. The Cheating Gambler
13. The Flight of the Last Dogribs
14. The Shaman of the Yellowknives
15. The Wise Man - Story One
16. The wise Man - Story Two
PART II: Elicited Accounts
17. Education
18. About Fish
19. How I Made a Canoe
20. How I Tanned a Moose Hide
21. How I Hunted Beaver
PART III - Commentary
The Narrative Ethnography of Francois Mandeville
Appendix: Four States of an Oral Text
Bibliography
