Where the echo began : and other oral traditions from southwestern Alaska /
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| Author / Creator: | Himmelheber, Hans, 1908-2003 |
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| Uniform title: | Works. Selections. English. 1999 |
| Imprint: | Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, c2000. |
| Description: | xii, 224 p. : ill. ; 29 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4358962 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Hans Himmelheber: Making His Own Path
- Himmelheber's Alaska Year
- The Frozen Path
- The Frozen Path: Myths, Tales, and Legends of the Eskimos
- Introduction
- The Prose Poetry of the Nunivak Eskimos
- Creation Stories
- How the Raven Created Nunivak Island
- How a Woman Came Down from the Sky and Created Nunivak Island
- Support Anecdote: The Star
- How Nunivak Island Received its Population
- Myths
- How Sun and Moon Came to Be
- About a Girl who was Unwilling to Marry
- Wolves as Human Beings
- Where the Echo Began
- Support Anecdote: The Raven
- A Shaman Story
- Support Anecdote: Crackling the Eyes of Murres
- Animal Stories
- How the Raven Deceived Various Animals
- Great Adventures of a Little Mouse
- Support Anecdote: The Disobedient Mouse
- People's Stories
- The Expelled Woman
- The Expelled Woman (Second Version)
- Support Anecdote: The Wooden Wedge
- The Woman with Five Husbands
- About a Man Who Ran Away from His Wives
- The Evil Sister
- The Needlefish
- Experiences of a Tree
- About a Father Who Wished a Daughter for Himself
- The Five Kayak Travelers
- Support Anecdote: The Man and the Loon
- How a Brother and Sister Met Other Human Beings for the First Time
- Ancestor Stories
- The Glutton
- The Big and Little Brother
- The Wooden Hat
- Strange Hunting Adventure
- The Father and His Child
- Wolf Adventure
- Adventure of a Couple in Love
- Swan Flight
- The Fight with the Walrus
- Two Strong Men
- The Kayak
- Danced Ancestor Story
- Ethnographic Notes on the Nunivak Eskimos
- Festivals of the Nunivak Eskimos
- Agaiach [Asiggluteng], The Women's Dancing
- Nagatschuchdachelu'ting [Nakacugtarluteng], The Bladder Festival
- Kokchlu'ting [Qupluteng], Halving It
- Beduchdacheluni [Petugtarluni], Small Things are Hanging
- Religious Ideas
- The Shaman
- Analogy-Operations
- Omina
- The Good Number Six
- Fire Drilling
- Manufacture of Wooden Eating Bowls
- Games of the Eskimos
- Selected Writings
- The Use of Noseblood as a Binding Agent for Paint Colors Among the Eskimos
- Unimaginable Miracles in the Poetry of Western Africa and the Eskimos
- Yup'ik and Cup'ig Oral Traditions
- Translation and Transciption
- Dog Husband
- Retelling an Old Tale
- Story by Robert Kolerak; recorded, transcribed, and translated by Marie Meade
- Hans Himmelheber: Selected Bibliography
- References
- Index
- About the Editor
