Hardcover, 527 pages
English language
Published by University of Nebraska Press.
A Story as Sharp as a Knife
The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World (Masterworks of the Classical Haida Mythtellers)
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"The linguist and ethnographer John Swanton took dictation from the last great Haida-speaking storytellers, poets and historians from the fall of 1900 through the summer of 1901. His Haida hosts and colleagues had been raised in a wholly oral world where the mythic and the personal interpenetrate completely. They joined forces with their visitor, consciously creating a great treasury of Haida oral literature in written form.
Poet and linguist Robert Bringhurst has worked for many years with these century-old manuscripts, which have waited until now for the broad recognition they deserve."--BOOK JACKET.
"The linguist and ethnographer John Swanton took dictation from the last great Haida-speaking storytellers, poets and historians from the fall of 1900 through the summer of 1901. His Haida hosts and colleagues had been raised in a wholly oral world where the mythic and the personal interpenetrate completely. They joined forces with their visitor, consciously creating a great treasury of Haida oral literature in written form.
Poet and linguist Robert Bringhurst has worked for many years with these century-old manuscripts, which have waited until now for the broad recognition they deserve."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects
- Social Science
- Native American Folklore
- Sociology
- Multicultural Nonfiction
- Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies
- Folklore & Mythology - Mythology
- Folklore & Mythology - Storytelling
- Social Science / Folklore & Mythology
- Folklore & Mythology
- British Columbia
- Folklore
- Haida Indians
- Haida mythology
- Haida poetry
- Queen Charlotte Islands
- Translations into English