Inland Whale - Nine Stories Retold From California Indian Legends

Informationen zum Autor Theodora Kroeber (1897-1979) was a noted anthropologist and also the author of Ishi in Two Worlds (California). Karl Kroeber, son of Theodora Kroeber, is Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University and coeditor of Ishi in Three Centuries (2002). Klappentext PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION: "Thanks to Mrs. Kroeber’s simple, supple style, the stories all succeed as stories; they please, engage, move, or divert without depending for their effect on their exotic source."— The New Yorker "The varying but almost always superb story style of these narratives will speak to all."— New York Herald Tribune "This is a jewel of a book."— San Francisco Chronicle "These stories enlarge life. They remind us of Shakespeare and Aeschylus…. That Mrs. Kroeber’s book should generate such thoughts is proof of its power and beauty."— New York Times Book Review Zusammenfassung A collection of nine tales, selected and retold by an anthropologist, for the adult general-interest reader. This book's foreward, by the author's son, provides context about the author's methods and describes his own personal connection to the stories themselves. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreward by Karl Kroeber Introduction I. The Inland Whale Loon Woman Butterfly Man Dance Mad Love Charm Umai About-the-House Girl Tesilya! Sun's Daughter The Man's Wife II. Some Qualities of Indian Stories About the Stories in This Book Sources

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Theodora Kroeber, Kroeber Theodora
• Con la collaborazione di: Karl Kroeber (Prefazione)
• Editore: University Of California Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 05.12.2005
• EAN: 9780520246935
• ISBN: 978-0-520-24693-5
• Pagine: 212
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi > Fiabe, saghe, leggende; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Etnologia > Etnologia; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), Short Stories, FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Myth & legend told as fiction, Fiction: Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales