Haboo (eBook, ePUB)

Native American Stories from Puget Sound
Übersetzer: Hilbert, Vi

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The stories and legends of the Lushootseed-speaking people of Puget Sound represent an important part of the oral tradition by which one generation hands down beliefs, values, and customs to another. Vi Hilbert grew up when many of the old social patterns survived and everyone spoke the ancestral language.

Haboo, Hilbert's collection of thirty-three stories, features tales mostly set in the Myth Age, before the world transformed. Animals, plants, trees, and even rocks had human attributes. Prominent characters like Wolf, Salmon, and Changer and tricksters like Mink, Raven, and Coyote populate humorous, earthy stories that reflect foibles of human nature, convey serious moral instruction, and comically detail the unfortunate, even disastrous consequences of breaking taboos.

Beautifully redesigned and with a new foreword by Jill La Pointe, Haboo offers a vivid and invaluable resource for linguists, anthropologists, folklorists, future generations of Lushootseed-speaking people, and others interested in Native languages and cultures.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780295746982
• Artikelnr.: 59498831

Autorenporträt

Upper Skagit tribal elder Vi taq¿¿blu Hilbert (1918-2008) received a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts in 1994, taught language classes at the University of Washington, and cowrote the Lushootseed Dictionary. Thom Hess (1936-2009) was a professor of linguistics at the University of Victoria. Jill tsisq¿ux¿¿ä La Pointe is director of Lushootseed Research and granddaughter of Vi taq¿¿blu Hilbert.