Title Stories from Quechan oral literature / told by Rosita Carr, John Comet, Jessie Webb Escalante, Mary Kelly Escalanti, Josefa Hartt, Tom Kelly, Anonymous ; translated by Barbara Levy, George Bryant, Millie Romero, Amy Miller ; linquistic work by A.M. Halpern and Amy Miller.

Publication Info.	Cambridge, U.K. : Open Book Publishers, [2014]
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Description	1 online resource (xii, 533 pages) : portraits.
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Series	World oral literature series ; volume 6
	World oral literature series ; v. 6.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
Contents	Notes on contributors -- Foreword -- Introduction -- The man who bothered ants -- Two stories about the orphan boy and the monster -- Xarathó -- Three stories about Kwayúu -- Three stories about Old Lady Sanyuuxáv -- Áavém Kwasám.
Note	Print version record.
Summary	"The Quechan are a Yuman people who have traditionally lived along the lower part of the Colorado River in California and Arizona. They are well known as warriors, artists, and traders, and they also have a rich oral tradition. The stories in this volume were told by tribal elders in the 1970s and early 1980s. The eleven narratives in this volume take place at the beginning of time and introduce the reader to a variety of traditional characters, including the infamous Coyote and also Kwayúu the giant, Old Lady Sanyuuxáv and her twin sons, and the Man Who Bothered Ants. This book makes a long-awaited contribution to the oral literature and mythology of the American Southwest, and its format and organization are of special interest. Narratives are presented in the original language and in the storytellers' own words. A prosodically-motivated broken-line format captures the rhetorical structure and local organization of the oral delivery and calls attention to stylistic devices such as repetition and syntactic parallelism. Facing-page English translation provides a key to the original Quechan for the benefit of language learners. The stories are organized into "story complexes", that is, clusters of narratives with overlapping topics, characters, and events, told from diverse perspectives. In presenting not just stories but story complexes, this volume captures the art of storytelling and illuminates the complexity and interconnectedness of an important body of oral literature. Stories from Quechan Oral Literature provides invaluable reading for anyone interested in Native American cultural heritage and oral traditions more generally."--Publisher's website.
Language	Yuma language and English.
Subject	Indians of North America. (OCoLC)fst00969633
	Yuma Indians. (OCoLC)fst01183876
	American indigenous languages.
	California. (OCoLC)fst01204928
	Popular beliefs and controversial knowledge.
	Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
	Yuma language.
	Yuma language. (OCoLC)fst01183881
Genre/Form	Folklore. (OCoLC)fst01423784
Subject	Yuma Indians -- Folklore.
	Society and culture: general.
	Anthropology.
	Arizona. (OCoLC)fst01204820
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Subject	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
	Sociology and anthropology.
	Indians of North America -- Arizona.
	Folklore, myths and legends.
Local Subject	Indigenous peoples -- Arizona.
Subject	Indians of North America -- California.
	Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography Mod Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography.
Local Subject	Indigenous peoples -- California.
Added Author	Miller, Amy, 1961-
Other Form:	Print version: Halpern, Abraham M. (Abraham Meyer), 1914- Stories from Quechan oral literature. Cambridge, U.K. : Open Book Publishers, ©2014 9781909254862 (OCoLC)900228485
ISBN	9781909254879 (electronic book)
	1909254878 (electronic book)

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