Author: Ethel Ross Oliver Publisher: ISBN: Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 102
Book Description
In Favorite Eskimo Tales Retold, Ethel Ross Oliver retains an authentic Native Alaskan storyteller tone & evokes images of life in rural Alaska in a earlier time. Mrs. Oliver was the wife of Simeon Oliver, a noted Alaskan Aleut community & state leader. She lived in several rural Alaskan villages in the 1940s, as a teacher, wife, & mother. She collected the tales between 1945 & 1965. Many of them were told to her in the original Native Alaskan language & were translated by bilingual Native Alaskan speakers. The book's genesis goes back to 1927, when Simeon Oliver heard some of these tales for the first time & realized that they should be collected & preserved as a part of Native Alaskan heritage. The book includes a map which identifies the locations where Mrs. Oliver heard the tales told & the Native Alaskan storytellers who originally spoke the tales. Additionally, the book includes a glossary of native Alaskan words written by Joe Senungetuk, the book's illustrator & a noted Native Alaskan artist. The tales are equally suitable for reading as children's stories or for serious study by students of culture & folklore.
Author: Howard Norman Publisher: Bison Books ISBN: 9780803218796 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
With tales from the tribal peoples of Greenland, Canada, Siberia, Alaska, Japan, and the polar region, told and retold during months-long winter nights, Northern Tales gathers together a rich diversity of traditions and cultures, spanning the Way-Back Time through the coming of the first white explorers. By turns tragic and comic, fantastic and earthy, frivolous and profound, this collection transports the reader to the haunting, little-known world of the far North, with all its fragile majesty and power.
Author: Meghan Walley Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0429590148 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 203
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Incorporating Nonbinary Gender into Inuit Archaeology: Oral Testimony and Material Inroads explores gender diversity in precontact Inuit history. By combining evidence from interviews with re-examinations of previously excavated archaeological collections, it challenges binary narratives and creates an allowance for diverse narratives around gender to emerge. This work approaches a wide range of ethnographic and archaeological sources with a critical eye, opening up a dialogue between queer Indigenous studies, LGBTQ2+ Inuit, and archaeology in order to question normative colonial narratives about Indigenous pasts while providing concrete examples of how researchers can begin to let go of rigid assumptions. In this way the reader is encouraged to explore novel perspectives and think beyond boxes to understand gender complexity in precontact Inuit culture. This book has been written for a wide academic audience, particularly those interested in queer archaeologies, archaeologies of gender, decolonial archaeologies, and indigenous archaeologies, and oral history.
Author: Jane Yolen Publisher: Pantheon ISBN: 0804152861 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 514
Book Description
From Africa, Burma, and Czechoslovakia to Turkey, Vietnam, and Wales here are more than 150 of the world's best-loved folktales from more than forty countries and cultures. These tales of wonder and transformation, of heroes and heroines, of love lost and won, of ogres and trolls, stories both jocular and cautionary and legends of pure enchantment will delight readers and storytellers of all ages. With black-and-white drawings throughout Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
Author: Lydia Dabcovich Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 0547531451 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 43
Book Description
A lonely old woman adopts, cares for, and raises a polar bear as if he were her own son, until jealous villagers threaten the bear's life, forcing him to leave his home and his "mother," in a retelling of a traditional Inuit folktale.
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