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A story as sharp as a knife

the classical Haida mythtellers and their world

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An edition of A Story as Sharp as a Knife (1999)

A story as sharp as a knife

the classical Haida mythtellers and their world

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  • 2 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading

"The linguist and ethnographer John Swanton took dictation from the last great Haida-speaking storytellers, poets and historians from the fall of 1900 through the summer of 1901. His Haida hosts and colleagues had been raised in a wholly oral world where the mythic and the personal interpenetrate completely. They joined forces with their visitor, consciously creating a great treasury of Haida oral literature in written form.

Poet and linguist Robert Bringhurst has worked for many years with these century-old manuscripts, which have waited until now for the broad recognition they deserve."--BOOK JACKET.

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Douglas & McIntyre
Language
English
Pages
527

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Subjects

Legends, Translations into English, Haida Indians, Folklore, Haida poetry, Haida mythology, Indian mythology, Indians of North America, Indian literature

Places

British Columbia, Queen Charlotte Islands, Pacific Coast
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Cover of: A Story as Sharp as a Knife
A Story as Sharp as a Knife: The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World (Masterworks of the Classical Haida Mythtellers)
November 1, 2000, University of Nebraska Press
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Cover of: A Story as Sharp as a Knife
A Story as Sharp as a Knife: The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World (Masterworks of the Classical Haida Mythtellers)
November 1, 2000, University of Nebraska Press
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Cover of: A story as sharp as a knife
A story as sharp as a knife: the classical Haida mythtellers and their world
1999, Douglas & McIntyre, University of Nebraska Press
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Cover of: A story as sharp as a knife
A story as sharp as a knife: the classical Haida mythtellers and their world
1999, Douglas & McIntyre
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Edition Notes

English and Haida.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 493-516) and index.
Includes translations of poems.

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Vancouver
Genre
Translations into English., Folklore.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
398/.089/972
Library of Congress
E99.H2 B734 1999

The Physical Object

Pagination
527 p. :
Number of pages
527

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL110673M
ISBN 10
1550546961
LCCN
99230342, 00100327
OCLC/WorldCat
35878750, 45245720
LibraryThing
239165
Goodreads
1119699

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Work ID
OL854085W

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