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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460474403321

Titolo

New voices for old words : editing Algonquian texts / / edited by David J. Costa

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, [Nebraska] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-8032-7890-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (558 p.)

Collana

Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians

Disciplina

497/.33

Soggetti

Algonquian Indians

Algonquian languages

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover ""; ""Title Page ""; ""Copyright Page ""; ""Contents ""; ""Foreword""; ""Introduction""; ""Editing a Gros Ventre (White Clay) Text""; ""Gros Ventre text: The Gros Ventres Go to War""; ""Redacting Premodern Texts without Speakers: the Peoria Story of Wiihsakacaakwa""; ""Peoria text: Wiihsakacaakwa Aalhsoohkaakani (Wiihsakacaakwa Story)""; ""Editing and Using Arapaho-Language Manuscript Sources: A Comparative Perspective""; ""Arapaho texts:""; ""A Name-Changing Prayer""; ""Nih'oo3oo and His Friend the Beaver Catcher: Diving through the Ice""

""Highlighting Rhetorical Structure through Syntactic Analysis: An Illustrated Meskwaki Text by Alfred Kiyana""""Meskwaki text: A Man Who Fasted Long Ago""; ""Three Nineteenth-Century Munsee Texts: Archaisms, Dialect Variation, and Problems of Textual Criticism""; ""Munsee Delaware texts:""; ""A Youth and His Uncle""; ""Moshkim""; ""Origin Myth""; ""On Editing Bill Leaf's Meskwaki Texts""; ""Meskwaki text: Bill Leaf's Story of Red-Leggins""; ""Challenges of Editing and Presenting the Corpus of Potawatomi Stories Told by Jim and Alice Spear to Charles Hockett""

""Potawatomi text: Jejakos Gigabé (Crane Boy)""""The Words of Black Hawk: Restoring a Long-Ignored Bilingual""; ""Sauk text: The



Nekanawîni ('My Words') of Mahkatêwimeshikêhkêhkwa""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""