World-Making Stories

Maidu Language and Community Renewal on a Shared California Landscape
Herausgeber: Nevins, M Eleanor

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Produktbeschreibung

M. Eleanor Nevins is an associate professor of anthropology at Middlebury College in¿Vermont.¿She is the author of Lessons from Fort Apache: Beyond Language Endangerment and Maintenance. ¿

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 256mm x 177mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780803285286
• ISBN-10: 0803285280
• Artikelnr.: 46967343

Autorenporträt

M. Eleanor Nevins is an associate professor of anthropology at Middlebury College in Vermont. She is the author of Lessons from Fort Apache: Beyond Language Endangerment and Maintenance.  

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Introduction
Part 1: Community Renewal
Chapter 1. “This is Where We Belong”: Maidu Voices on a Shared California
Landscape
Chapter 2. Placing Communities, Languages and Stories on a Maidu Landscape
Chapter 3. Wéjenim Bíspadà: A brief history of Maidu language keepers, and
other thoughts on language revitalization, by Kenneth Holbrook
Part 2: Creation Narratives of Hánc’ibyjim / Tom Young
Chapter 4. Púktim / Creation
Chapter 5. Hompajtotokymc’om / The Adversaries
Chapter 6. Hybykym Masy Wonom/Love and Death
Chapter 7. K’ódojapem Bom / Worldmaker’s Trail
Part 3: Pronunciation and Lessons
Chapter 8. How to Pronounce Maidu, by William Shipley
Chapter 9. Reading the Maidu Language: Nine Beginning Lessons, by William
Shipley
Names Index
Bibliography
General Index