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Author Clements, William M., 1945-

Title Native American verbal art : texts and contexts / William M. Clements.

Publication Info. Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [1996]
©1996

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  897 C626N    Check Shelf
Description viii, 252 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [219]-241) and index.
Contents "Identity" and "difference" in the textualization of Zuni verbal art -- Situations and performances -- "Not so stupid as they may have been painted": the Jesuits and Native Canadian verbal art -- "A sort of loose poetry": Henry Timberlake's Cherokee war song -- "Tokens of literary faculty": texts and contexts in the early nineteenth century -- "All we could expect from untutored savages": schoolcraft as textmaker -- "The true presentiments of the Indian mind": linguistic texts as data sources -- Natalie Curtis in Hopiland -- The anthology as museum of verbal art.
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Languages -- Texts.
Subject Indian literature -- North America -- Translating -- History and criticism.
Indians of North America -- Languages -- Texts.
Indians of North America -- Languages -- Translating.
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Languages -- Translating.
Indigenous literature -- North America -- Translating -- History and criticism.
ISBN 0816516596 (cloth : acid-free paper)
0816516588 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
Sudoc No. UA 5.2:N 17 azdocs
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