| Stories That Make the World, Volume 218: Oral Literature of the Indian Peoples of the Inland Northwest Revised Edition Contributor(s): Frey, Rodney (Editor), Aripa, Lawrence (As Told by) |
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ISBN: 0806131314 ISBN-13: 9780806131313 Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press OUR PRICE: $21.73 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 1995 Annotation: By using verse form and visual clues indicating pauses, intonations, and gestures, anthropologist Rodney Frey permits readers to hear the oral literature of narrators from the Coeur d'Alene, Crow, Klikitat, Kootenai, Nez Perce, Sanpoil, and Wasco people today in Washington, northern Idaho, and Montana. He places each of the twenty-three narratives in its larger cultural, literary, and expressive context, making this anthology an important resource both for American Indian people and for non-Native scholars and general readers. A glossary and a lesson-plan appendix facilitate the book's use in both secondary and college-level courses. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Native American |
| Dewey: 398.208 |
| Series: Civilization of the American Indian |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 5.53" W x 8.56" (0.80 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Ethnic Orientation - Native American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: By using verse form and visual clues indicating pauses, intonations, and gestures, anthropologist Rodney Frey permits readers to hear the oral literature of narrators from the Coeur d'Alene, Crow, Klikitat, Kootenai, Nez Perce, Sanpoil, and Wasco people today in Washington, northern Idaho, and Montana. He places each of the twenty-three narratives in its larger cultural, literary, and expressive context, making this anthology an important resource both for American Indian people and for non-Native scholars and general readers. A glossary and a lesson-plan appendix facilitate the book's use in both secondary and college-level courses.
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