A Story As Sharp As a Knife: The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World - Softcover

Bringhurst, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803261799 ISBN 13: 9780803261792

Verlag: University of Nebraska Press, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

The Haida world is a misty archipelago a hundred stormy miles off the coasts of British Columbia and Alaska. For more than a thousand years before the Europeans came, a great culture flourished on these islands. In 1900 and 1901 the linguist and ethnographer John Swanton took dictation from the last traditional Haida-speaking storytellers, poets, and historians. Robert Bringhurst worked for many years with these manuscripts, and here he brings them to life in the English language. A Story as Sharp as a Knife brings a lifetime of passion and a broad array of skills—humanistic, scientific, and poetic—to focus on a rich and powerful tradition that the world has long ignored.

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Robert Bringhurst is one of Canada's most respected poets and cultural historians. He is the author of The Black Canoe: Bill Reid and the Spirit of Haida Gwaii and the coauthor of The Raven Steals the Light.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0803261799
• ISBN 13: 9780803261792
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 527
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