Pitch Woman and Other Stories: The Oral Traditions of Coquelle Thompson, Upper Coquille Athabaskan IndianU of Nebraska Press, 01.01.2007 - 250 Seiten Despite the political instability characterizing twentieth-century Taiwan, the value of baseball in the lives of Taiwanese has been a constant since the game was introduced in 1895. The game first gained popularity on the island under the Japanese occupation, and that popularity continued after World War II despite the withdrawal of the Japanese and an official lack of support from the new state power, the Chinese Nationalist Party. |
Inhalt
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2 An Upper Coquille Athabaskan Cultural Sketch | 31 |
3 Features of Style and Performance in Coquelle Thompsons Storytelling | 51 |
4 Analyses of Four Stories | 69 |
5 Oral Traditional Texts | 131 |
Afterword | 271 |
A Comparison of Jacobs and Harringtons Text Transcription Styles | 275 |
A Note on Orthography and Pronunciation | 279 |
Notes | 283 |
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Pitch Woman and Other Stories: The Oral Traditions of Coquelle Thompson ... William R. Seaburg,Elizabeth D. Jacobs Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2012 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
arrow Athabaskan field notebook Athabaskan language baby basket boat bride price brother camas chief Coon Coquelle Thompson Coquille Athabaskan field Coyote Jim Coyote's creek crying cultural dance dead Deer Woman door dream English eyes feces fellow fire fish gambling girl Grizzly Bear Harrington heard hollered hunt Jacobs's Upper Coquille John Peabody Harrington jumped Kalapuya kill knew looked lots Lushootseed meat Melville Jacobs Miluk morning mountain myth never night Northwest ocean old lady oral traditions pack pancreas Panther Pitch Woman Pretty soon ready recorded reel river Sahaptin Scene Seaburg Siletz Reservation sister Snake song southwestern Oregon Athabaskan story presented storyteller sweathouse Takelma taken from Jacobs's talk tell thought Thunder told took Tututni University of Washington Upper Coquille Athabaskan whale What's wife Wildcat women Woodpecker young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite xiii - I learnt to restrain speculative tendencies and to follow the unforgotten advice of my master, Charcot — to look at the same things again and again until they themselves begin to speak.
Seite xii - The relations of textual units to other texts, since part of the context of any text is, more or less, all previous texts in a particular culture, especially texts considered to be in the same genre; readable literature is structurally coherent with its own ancestors. 3. The relations of the units in the text to the intention of the creators of the text, with intention defined as the relations of the creator to the content of the text, the medium, and to the hearers or readers.
Seite v - So, take a listen to these, a few times and think about it, to these stories, and what I tell you now. Compare them. See if you can see something more about it. Kind of plain, but it's pretty hard to tell you for you to know right now. Takes time. And then you will see.