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Essays in Native American Ethnopoetics
Tables
Introduction
Ethnological Note
Orthographic Note
PART ONE. UNSUSPECTED DEVICES AND DESIGNS
1 Some North Pacific Coast Poems: A Problem in Anthropological Philology
2 How to Talk Like a Bear in Takelma
PART TWO. BREAKTHROUGH TO PERFORMANCE
3 Breakthrough into Performance
4 Louis Simpson's "The Deserted Boy"
5 Verse Analysis of a Wasco Text: Hiram Smith's "At'unaqa"
6 Breakthrough into Performance Revisited
PART THREE. TITLES, NAMES, AND NATURES
7 Myth and Tale Titles of the Lower Chinook
8 The "Wife" Who "Goes Out" Like a Man: Reinterpretation of a Clackamas
Chinook Myth
9 Discovering Oral Performance and Measured Verse in American Indian
Narrative
10 Reading Clackamas Texts
Epilog
Index to Analyzed Translations and English-Language Texts
Bibliography
Index