La littérature autochtone d’hier et d’aujourd’hui
Assiniwi, Bernard
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Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory
Vie des Arts
1989-12-01T00:00:00.000Z December 1989 1989-12-01T00:00:00.000Z December 1989
n. 137
vol. 34
p. 46
continuing
French
Non-Fiction Essais
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The author looks back at 400 years of “literary history”: a variety of complex orature practices explained and dissected predominently by anthropologists and ethnologists, leading to the idea that a culture “without [written] literature” was a “savage” culture. From birch bark to wampums to basket weaving, the author lists numerous examples of “living books” that account for highly organized, socially, politically and culturally evolved civilizations.
