Lies to live by [[electronic resource] /] / Lois Beardslee
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| Autore: |
Beardslee Lois
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| Titolo: |
Lies to live by [[electronic resource] /] / Lois Beardslee
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| Pubblicazione: | East Lansing, : Michigan State University Press, c2003 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (152 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 398.2/089/973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Ojibwa Indians - Social life and customs |
| Ojibwa Indians | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | CONTENTS; Introduction; Lies to Live By; Dibawjimot, the Storyteller; Minan; Keepers of the Water; Sneaking Up on a Fish; Big Water; Ice; The Origins of the First Ice Fishing Shanty; Inhaling the Night; Birch Bark Biting; Bebookwedagaminh; Dreamcatchers; In Pursuit of Shiigun, the Bass; Chiibii Tag; Siisagwad; Charlie's Bundle; Manaboozhou and the Ducks; The Devil's Chair; Fine Weather for Painting; Niimik Niigik; Why Are You Sleeping on a Nice Day Like This?; Don't Judge a Book By its Cover; Fins; Indian Mission Church; That Wonderful Thing; The Winona Dilemma; Calm Days; One End of the Boat |
| Fried EggsThe Little People of the North Woods; The Storeroom; My Favorite Fish; The Drum; Superior's Gifts; The Log; Biboon; Fog Paints the Landscape; The Trout Lake; Manaboozhou's Basket; The Michikiniibigag; Laundry Day; Flowers and Kisses; Flying Pigs; Shampoo Soup; Quiet Time; When Stones Walk the Earth | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Lies To Live By brings together two selections of stories by Ojibwe storyteller Lois Beardslee. "Lies to Live By," a series of interdependent tales, reflects the storyteller's role in interpreting traditional stories for contemporary audiences, while preserving traditions based not in mysticism but in pragmatism. In "Calm Days," three generations-the narrator, her grandfather, and her son-spend a week together on a remote island during the course of which they demonstrate the continuity of Ojibwe life. Together these stories weave the contemporary and the traditional to show how cultural dive |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Lies to live by |
| ISBN: | 1-62895-197-4 |
| 0-87013-890-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910457397703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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