Native American verbal art
Subtitle: texts and contexts
By: William M. Clements.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
Subjects: Indian literature -- North America -- Translating -- History and criticism.; Indians of North America -- Languages -- Translating.; Indians of North America -- Languages -- Texts.; North America -- Intellectual life.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-241) and index.
Table of contents: value: "Identity" and "difference" in the textualization of Zuni verbal art; value: Situations and performances; value: "Not so stupid as they may have been painted": the Jesuits and Native Canadian verbal art; value: "A sort of loose poetry": Henry Timberlake's Cherokee war song; value: "Tokens of literary faculty": texts and contexts in the early nineteenth century; value: "All we could expect from untutored savages": schoolcraft as textmaker; value: "The true presentiments of the Indian mind": linguistic texts as data sources; value: Natalie Curtis in Hopiland; value: The anthology as museum of verbal art.