A story as sharp as a knife: the classical Haida mythtellers and their world

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Bringhurst, Robert, et al. A Story as Sharp as a Knife: The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World. The Folio Society, 2015.

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mods_titleInfo_title_ms: A story as sharp as a knife: the classical Haida mythtellers and their world
Author: Bringhurst, Robert
Yeomans, Don
Atwood, Margaret
Publisher: The Folio Society
Edition: Folio Society edition
Place of Publication: London
Issuance: monographic
Extent: 534 p.
Content Source: troy.lib.sfu.ca Library Catalog
Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory
Physical Description: 534 p.
Topic: British Columbia
Haida mythology
Pacific Coast
British Columbia Pacific Coast
Haida Indians
Translations
Haida poetry
Folklore
Legends
Genre: book
book
Language: eng hai
Identifier: tpatt:058245e8-3afa-4bb9-b4fb-e6338c01058a
Last Modified Date: 2018-04-06T01:17:51.152Z

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Title: A story as sharp as a knife: the classical Haida mythtellers and their world, A story as sharp as a knife
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Subject: E 99 H2 B735 2015, British Columbia, Haida mythology, Pacific Coast, British Columbia Pacific Coast, Haida Indians, Translations, Haida poetry, Folklore, Legends
Description: "First published by the University of Nebraska Press in 1999. The text of this edition follows the second edition published by Douglas & McIntyre in 2011, with minor emendations"--Verso of title page Issued in case, Prologue: Reading what cannot be written -- [Part] 1. Sghwaansing. 1. Goose food ; 2. Spoken music ; 3. The one they hand along ; 4. Wealth has big eyes ; 5. Oral tradition and the individual talent -- [Part] 2. Sting. 6.The anthropologist and the dogfish ; 7. Who's related to whom? ; 8. The epic dream ; 9. The shaping of the canon ; 10. The flyting of Skaay and Xhyuu -- [Part] 3. Hlghun'uhl. 11. You are that too ; 12. Sleek blue beings ;13. The iridescent silence of the trickster ; 14. The lastpeople in the world -- [Part] 4. Stansing. 15. A knife that could open its mouth ; 16. The historian of Ttanuu ; 17. Chase what's gone -- [Part] 5. Tliihl. 18. A blue holein the heart ; 19. The prosody of meaning ; 20. Shellheap of the spirit-beings ; 21. 1 November 1908 ; 22. How the town mother's wife became the widow of her husband's sister's sons -- Political afterword -- Appendix 1: Spelling, pronunciation and Native American typography -- Appendix 2: Haida geography and village names -- Appendix 3: The structure of Skaay's Raven travelling : the poem ofthe elders, OCLC: 926983506
Publisher: The Folio Society
Contributor: Bringhurst, Robert, Yeomans, Don, Atwood, Margaret
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Type: Text, book, book
Format: 534 p.
Identifier: tpatt:058245e8-3afa-4bb9-b4fb-e6338c01058a
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Rights: Use of this public-domain resource is governed by the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

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