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Native American verbal art : texts and contexts / William M. Clements.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, ©1996.Description: viii, 252 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0816516596
  • 9780816516599
  • 0816516588
  • 9780816516582
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Native American verbal art.LOC classification:
  • PM218 .C54 1996
Online resources:
Contents:
"Identity" and "difference" in the textualization of Zuni verbal art -- Situations and performances -- "Not so stupid as they may have been painted": the Jesuits and Native Canadian verbal art -- "A sort of loose poetry": Henry Timberlake's Cherokee war song -- "Tokens of literary faculty": texts and contexts in the early nineteenth century -- "All we could expect from untutored savages": schoolcraft as textmaker -- "The true presentiments of the Indian mind": linguistic texts as data sources -- Natalie Curtis in Hopiland -- The anthology as museum of verbal art.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-241) and index.

"Identity" and "difference" in the textualization of Zuni verbal art -- Situations and performances -- "Not so stupid as they may have been painted": the Jesuits and Native Canadian verbal art -- "A sort of loose poetry": Henry Timberlake's Cherokee war song -- "Tokens of literary faculty": texts and contexts in the early nineteenth century -- "All we could expect from untutored savages": schoolcraft as textmaker -- "The true presentiments of the Indian mind": linguistic texts as data sources -- Natalie Curtis in Hopiland -- The anthology as museum of verbal art.