This Is What They Say
Stories by Francois Mandeville
Published on 22. May 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-295-98933-4 (ISBN)
Description
2010 American Book Award Winner
Chipewyan is one of the many Northern Athapaskan languages spoken in Alaska and western Canada. Mandeville's story cycle is a rich picture of traditional life and thought in the Northern Athapaskan world
Chipewyan is one of the many Northern Athapaskan languages spoken in Alaska and western Canada. Mandeville's story cycle is a rich picture of traditional life and thought in the Northern Athapaskan world
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Seattle
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
10 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
431 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-295-98933-4 (9780295989334)
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Francois Mandeville was a master storyteller born at Fort Resolution in the Northwest Territories in 1878. Fifty years later, at Fort Chipewyan, Alberta, he dictated a book of stories to a young and very talented Chinese linguist, Li Fang-kuei, who wrote them down in the Chipewyan language. Ron Scollon , former professor of linguistics at Georgetown University, first translated these stories in the 1970s after studying with Li, and returns to them here after a lifetime of work and serious play among the mysteries of human language.
Content
Foreword by Robert Bringhurst
Translator's Preface
PART I: The Stories
1. How Copper Was Discovered
2. How Iron Was Discovered
3. Raven Head
4. His Grandmother Raised Him
5. Scabby
6. Old Axe - Story One
7. Old Axe - Story Two
8. The Cannibal
9. The Man Who Hibernated with a Bear
10. The Adventures of Beaulieu
11. The Man Who Became a Wolf
12. The Cheating Gambler
13. The Flight of the Last Dogribs
14. The Shaman of the Yellowknives
15. The Wise Man - Story One
16. The wise Man - Story Two
PART II: Elicited Accounts
17. Education
18. About Fish
19. How I Made a Canoe
20. How I Tanned a Moose Hide
21. How I Hunted Beaver
PART III - Commentary
The Narrative Ethnography of Francois Mandeville
Appendix: Four States of an Oral Text
Bibliography
Translator's Preface
PART I: The Stories
1. How Copper Was Discovered
2. How Iron Was Discovered
3. Raven Head
4. His Grandmother Raised Him
5. Scabby
6. Old Axe - Story One
7. Old Axe - Story Two
8. The Cannibal
9. The Man Who Hibernated with a Bear
10. The Adventures of Beaulieu
11. The Man Who Became a Wolf
12. The Cheating Gambler
13. The Flight of the Last Dogribs
14. The Shaman of the Yellowknives
15. The Wise Man - Story One
16. The wise Man - Story Two
PART II: Elicited Accounts
17. Education
18. About Fish
19. How I Made a Canoe
20. How I Tanned a Moose Hide
21. How I Hunted Beaver
PART III - Commentary
The Narrative Ethnography of Francois Mandeville
Appendix: Four States of an Oral Text
Bibliography