Download or read book He who Hunted Birds in His Father s Village written by Gary Snyder and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book He Who Hunted Birds in His Father s Village written by Gary Snyder and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book He Who Hunted Birds in His Father s Village written by Gary Snyder and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1951, as a student of anthropology in Oregon, Gary Snyder set himself to the task of analyzing the many levels of meaning a single Native American myth might hold. He Who Hunted Birds in His Father's Village is the result of Snyder's critical look at a Haida tale that was told by the great oral poet Ghandl (Walter McGregor) to John Swanton sometime before 1905. A version of the ubiquitous "swan maiden" story, it tells of a chief's son who falls in love with a wild goose–girl, loses her, follows her into the sky, and returns to land as a seagull. Snyder goes deep into the transformations that occur in the myth, considering versions of myth from around the world, and explaining how the story might apply here and now. He writes: To go beyond and become what–a seagull on a reef? Why not. Our nature is no particular nature; look out across the beach at the gulls. For an empty moment while their soar and cry enters your heart like sunshaft through water, you are that, totally. We do this every day. So this is the aspect of mind that gives art, style, and self–transcendence to the inescapable human plantedness in a social and ecological nexus. The challenge is to do it well, by your neighbors and by the trees, and that maybe once in a great while we can get where we see through the same eye at the same time, for a moment. That would be doing it well. Old tales and myths and stories are the k_ans of the human race.
Download or read book On Sacred Ground written by Nicholas O'Connell and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Native American myths and the accounts of explorers and settlers to the contemporary explosion of poetry and prose, O'Connell finds a sense of the Northwest as a spiritual homeland to be a common thread.
Download or read book Genesis Structure and Meaning in Gary Snyder s Mountains and Rivers Without End written by Anthony Hunt and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2016-12-20 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Gary Snyder’s long poem Mountains and Rivers Without End was published in 1996, it was hailed as a masterpiece of American poetry. Anthony Hunt offers a detailed historical and explicative analysis of this complex work using, among his many sources, Snyder’s personal papers, letters, and interviews. Hunt traces the work’s origins, as well as some of the sources of its themes and structure, including Nō drama; East Asian landscape painting; the rhythms of storytelling, chant, and song; Jungian archetypal psychology; world mythology; Buddhist philosophy and ritual; Native American traditions; and planetary geology, hydrology, and ecology. His analysis addresses the poem not merely by its content, but through the structure of individual lines and the arrangement of the parts, examining the personal and cultural influences on Snyder’s work. Hunt’s benchmark study will be rewarding reading for anyone who enjoys the contemplation of Snyder’s artistry and ideas and, more generally, for those who are intrigued by the cultural and intellectual workings of artistic composition.
Download or read book HAIDA TEXTS AND MYTHS written by JOHN R. SWANTON and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book HAIDA TEXTS AND MYTHS written by S. DIALECT and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Haida Texts and Myths Skidegate Dialect written by John Reed Swanton and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nine Visits to the Mythworld written by Ghandl of the Qayahl Llaanas and published by Douglas & McIntyre. This book was released on 2023-10-28 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Fall of 1900, a young American anthropologist named John Swanton arrived in the Haida country, on the Northwest Coast of North America, intending to learn everything he could about Haida mythology. He spent the next ten months phonetically transcribing several thousand pages of myths, stories, histories and songs in the Haida language. Swanton met a number of fine mythtellers during his year in the Haida country. Each had his own style and his own repertoire. Two of them—a blind man in his fifties by the name of Ghandl, and a crippled septuagenarian named Skaay—were artists of extraordinary stature, revered in their own communities and admired ever since by the few specialists aware of their great legacy. Nine Visits to the Mythworld includes all the finest works of one of these master mythtellers. In November 1900, when Ghandl dictated these nine stories, the Haida world lay in ruins. Wave upon wave of smallpox and other diseases, rapacious commercial exploitation by fur traders, whalers and miners, and relentless missionization by the church had taken a huge toll on Haida culture. Yet in the blind poet’s mind, the great tradition lived, and in his voice it comes alive. Robert Bringhurst’s eloquent and vivid translations of these works are supplemented by explanatory notes that supply the needed background information.
Download or read book Bulletin Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Soul Caller written by Ana Peters and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-08-24 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dramatic story of brotherhood, magic, and spiritual growth. Two young men from Laos immigrate to Minnesota, U.S.A., during the Vietnam War. Enemies and rivals for the love of a village woman who stayed behind, each tries to resolve his confusion about living in a new culture and the loss of their beloved beauty, Zoua Lee. For Pao Moua, Zoua comes alive in his paintings of the village. On dark nights, from a mural lit by headlights, she speaks to Pao and helps him find a way to accept his new life. For Lue Vang, there is no such understanding. He turns to gang life, and must kill or be killed by his gang brothers. In trying to help Lue Vang, Pao nearly loses his life, but in the process he undergoes a life-changing experience that will lead him to become the shaman he always wanted to become. On the other hand, Lue Vang must leave the city to stay alive, but he leaves transformed after seeing a vision of Zoua Lee and saving Paos life. In the end, he realizes his own courage.
Download or read book The Gift of Birds written by Ruben E. Reina and published by UPenn Museum of Archaeology. This book was released on 1991 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting 10 essays by experts in the fields of anthropology, ethnography, and ornithology on the native peoples of South America and their use of birds, this volume offers a fascinating view into the lives and customs of some of the indigenous peoples living in the rainforest and coastal areas of Brazil and Peru. This book includes color photographs of South American natives in festival and ritual celebrations and everyday activities, along with spectacular objects of featherwork, textiles, and pottery. Contributors: Ruben E. Reina, Kenneth M. Kensinger, Kay L. Candler, Virginia Greene, Elizabeth Netto Calil Zarur, Catherine V. Howard, Patricia J. Lyon, Jon F. Pressman, Peter T. Turst, and Mark Robbins. University Museum Monograph, 75
Download or read book The Pawnee Mythology part I written by George Amos Dorsey and published by Washington, Carnegie Institution of Washington. This book was released on 1906 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Attila D hun s Storybook Cookbook written by Attila d’Hun Gyarmati and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2005-05-23 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I offer this book as a troubadour, leading his listeners to a mystical playground. There are stories to most recipes in this book, and they are not based on, or subjected to scientific research, but rather, whimsical in nature. Delightful reading and delicious eating was, is and will be, as it should, through the ages. Attila d Huns Storybook-Cookbook is a collection of multi cultural, ancient, authentic, original and contemporary recipes. The author hopes to inspire many inexperienced cooks to create delicious meals to impress friends and family members by reading the stories first. The association of the stories and related recipes, in this book, will go beyond Pavlovs classical conditioning theory. The stimulus will be at a higher conscious level, where the intelligent and curious inquisition will stimulate the readers salivary glands and taste buds. Easy to follow recipes! Cooking was never so easy, and hopefully will never be the same!
Download or read book The Lunatic written by Anthony C. Winkler and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel reveals that lunacy is by no means restricted to the village madman. . . . “By far the funniest book I’ve read in a decade” (The Washington Post Book World). In Jamaica, Aloysius is tolerated by his neighbors, but forced to eke out a living by doing odd jobs and use the hospitable woodlands for shelter. Starved of human companionship, he has running conversations with trees and plants. Then love, or a peculiar version of it, comes to Aloysius in the form of a solidly built German lady, Inga Schmidt, who has come to the Caribbean to photograph the flora and fauna. They will embark on a romance and a series of misadventures that may turn the island, and their lives, upside down . . . “Every country (if she’s lucky) gets the Mark Twain she deserves, and Winkler is ours, bristling with savage Jamaican wit.” —Marlon James
Download or read book One Thousand One Papua New Guinean Nights Tales from 1986 1997 indices glossary references and maps written by Thomas H. Slone and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A two-volume collection of folktales that were published in Papua New Guinea's Wantok newspaper. The two-volume collection presents the complete set of 1047 folktales that were originally published from 1972 through 1997 in Tok Pisin.
Download or read book One Thousand One Papua New Guinean Nights Tales form 1972 1985 written by Thomas H. Slone and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A two-volume collection of folktales that were published in Papua New Guinea's Wantok newspaper. The two-volume collection presents the complete set of 1047 folktales that were originally published from 1972 through 1997 in Tok Pisin.
