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Informationen zum Autor Craig Mishler is an affiliate research professor with the Alaska Native Language Center at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. He is the editor of Neerihiinjìk: We Traveled from Place to Place: The Gwich'in Stories of Johnny and Sarah Frank and the author of The Crooked Stovepipe: Athapaskan Fiddle Music and Square Dancing in Northeast Alaska and Northwest Canada. Klappentext Craig Mishler is an affiliate research professor with the Alaska Native Language Center at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. He is the editor of Neerihiinj¿ We Traveled from Place to Place:¿The Gwich¿in Stories of Johnny and Sarah Frank and¿the author of The Crooked Stovepipe: Athapaskan Fiddle Music and Square Dancing in Northeast Alaska and Northwest Canada. Zusammenfassung The story of the Blind Man and the Loon is a living Native folktale about a blind man who is betrayed by his mother or wife but whose vision is magically restored by a kind loon. In The Blind Man and the Loon ! Craig Mishler goes back to 1827! tracing the story's emergence across Greenland and North America in manuscripts! books! and in the visual arts and other media. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsForewordPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Story of a Tale1. The History and Geography of the Tale2. The Writing of the Tale3. The Tale Behind the Tale4. The Telling of the Tale5. The Art of the Tale6. The Mediated and Theatrical Tale7. The Power of the TaleConclusion and AfterwordAppendix A: Paradigm of Tale TraitsAppendix B: Annotated Bibliography of VariantsAppendix C: Knud Rasmussen's Greenlandic VariantsAppendix D: The Steenholdt Text and Additional Variants from Hinrich Rink's CollectionNotesReferencesIndex
