Tables
Introduction
Ethnological Note
Orthographic Note
PART ONE. UNSUSPECTED DEVICES AND DESIGNS
1 Some North Pacific Coast Poems: A Problem in Anthropological
Philology
2 How to Talk Like a Bear in Takelma
PART TWO. BREAKTHROUGH TO PERFORMANCE
3 Breakthrough into Performance
4 Louis Simpson's "The Deserted Boy"
5 Verse Analysis of a Wasco Text: Hiram Smith's "At'unaqa"
6 Breakthrough into Performance Revisited
PART THREE. TITLES, NAMES, AND NATURES
7 Myth and Tale Titles of the Lower Chinook
8 The "Wife" Who "Goes Out" Like a Man: Reinterpretation of a
Clackamas Chinook Myth
9 Discovering Oral Performance and Measured Verse in American
Indian Narrative
10 Reading Clackamas Texts
Epilog
Index to Analyzed Translations and English-Language Texts
Bibliography
Index
"The most important work in recent decades on the poetics of Native American oral traditions. . . . Hymes restores voice to oral texts that have been little more than museum pieces."-World Literature
"The single most penetrating analysis of a body of text materials
in the Native American literature."—Jarold Ramsey
"The most important work in recent decades on the poetics of Native
American oral traditions. . . . Hymes restores voice to oral texts
that have been little more than museum pieces."—World
Literature
"A gem that should be required reading for every aspiring and
practicing folklorist."—Journal of American Folklore
"An important landmark."—Choice
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