World-Making Stories (eBook, ePUB)

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

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation World-Making Stories is a collection of Maidu creation stories that will help readers appreciate California's rich cultural tapestry. At the beginning of the twentieth century, renowned storyteller Hanc'ibyjim (Tom Young) performed Maidu and Atsugewi stories for anthropologist Ronald B. Dixon, who published these stories in 1912. The resulting Maidu Texts presented the stories in numbered block texts that, while serving as a source of linguistic decoding, also reflect the state of anthropological linguistics of the era by not conveying a sense of rhetorical or poetic composition. Sixty years later, noted linguist William Shipley engaged the texts as oral literature and composed a free verse literary translation, which he paired with the artwork of Daniel Stolpe and published in a limited-edition four-volume set that circulated primarily to libraries and private collectors. Here M. Eleanor Nevins and the Weje-ebis (Keep Speaking) Jamani Maidu Language Revitalization Project team illuminate these important tales in a new way by restoring Maidu elements omitted by William Shipley and by bending the translation to more closely correspond in poetic form to the Maidu original. The beautifully told stories by Hanc'ibyjim are accompanied by Stolpe's intricate illustrations and by personal and pedagogical essays from scholars and Maidu leaders working to revitalize the language. The resulting World-Making Stories is a necessity for language revitalization programs and an excellent model of indigenous community-university collaboration.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496202086
• Artikelnr.: 50474450

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