9780803236950-0803236956-Traditional Narratives of the Arikara Indians, English Translations, Volume 4: Stories of Other Narrators (Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians)

Traditional Narratives of the Arikara Indians, English Translations, Volume 4: Stories of Other Narrators (Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians)

ISBN-13: 9780803236950
ISBN-10: 0803236956
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Douglas R. Parks
Publication date: 1991
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Format: Hardcover 431 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780803236950
ISBN-10: 0803236956
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Douglas R. Parks
Publication date: 1991
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Format: Hardcover 431 pages

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Traditional Narratives of the Arikara Indians, English Translations, Volume 4: Stories of Other Narrators (Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians) (ISBN-13: 9780803236950 and ISBN-10: 0803236956), written by authors Douglas R. Parks, was published by University of Nebraska Press in 1991. With an overall rating of 4.2 stars, it's a notable title among other Folklore & Mythology (Social Sciences, Sociology) books. You can easily purchase or rent Traditional Narratives of the Arikara Indians, English Translations, Volume 4: Stories of Other Narrators (Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians) (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Folklore & Mythology books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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Until the late eighteenth century the Arikaras were one of the largest and most influential Indian groups on the northern plains. For centuries they have lived along the Missouri River, first in present South Dakota, later in what is now North Dakota. Today they share the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota with the Mandans and Hidatsas. Although their postcontact history and aspects of their culture are well documented, Douglas R. Parks's monumental four-volume work Traditional Narratives of the Arikara Indians represents the first comprehensive attempt to describe and record their language and literary traditions. Volumes 1 and 2 present transcriptions of 156 oral narratives in Arikara and include literal interlinear English translations. Volumes 3 and 4 contain free English translations of those narratives, making available for the first time a broad, representative group of Arikara oral traditions that will be invaluable not only to anthropologists and folklorists but to everyone interested in American Indian life and literature.The narratives cover the entire range of traditional stories found in the historical and literary tradition of the Arikara people, who classify their stories into two categories, true stories and tales. Here are myths of ancient times, legends of power bestowed, historical narratives, and narratives of mysterious incidents that affirm the existence today of supernatural power in the world, along with tales of the trickster Coyote and stories of the risque Stuwi and various other animals. In addition, there are accounts of Arikara ritualism: prayers and descriptions of how personal names are bestowed and how the Death Feast originated.
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