Francois Mandeville

This Is What They Say

Stories by Francois Mandeville
Übersetzer: Scollon, Ron

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An invaluable book on how to be and not to be, on work and dedication, on the inner life of scholarship, and on life and death in the Old Ways.--Gary SnyderThis astonishing Chipewyan story cycle from one of the unsung heoroes of Native American literature reveals a rich and nuanced picture of traditional life and thought in the northern Athapaskan world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780295989334
• ISBN-10: 0295989335
• Artikelnr.: 26524178

Autorenporträt

Francois Mandeville. Translated by Ron Scollon. Foreword by Robert Bringhurst

Inhaltsangabe

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