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World-making stories : Maidu language and community renewal on a shared California landscape

Title
World-making stories : Maidu language and community renewal on a shared California landscape / edited by M. Eleanor Nevins ; with contributions from the Weje-ebis (Keep Speaking) Jamani Maidu Language Revitalization Project, and Tom Young, Roxi Pecnom, Dan Williams, Maym Gallagher, and Kenneth Holbrook ; adapted from translations by William Shipley ; illustrations by Daniel Stolpe.
Publication
  • Lincoln, NE : University of Nebraska Press, [2017].
  • ©2017

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Additional Authors
  • Nevins, M. Eleanor.
  • Young, Tom
  • Holbrook, Kenneth
  • Shipley, William, 1921-2011.
  • Stolpe, Daniel Owen, 1939-2018
Description
xiv, 229 pages : illustrations, maps, photographs; 26 cm
Summary
"World-Making Stories is a collection of Maidu creation stories that will help readers appreciate California's rich cultural tapestry. At the beginning of the twentieth century, renowned storyteller Hanc'ibyjim (Tom Young) performed Maidu and Atsugewi stories for anthropologist Ronald B. Dixon, who published these stories in 1912. The resulting Maidu Texts presented the stories in numbered block texts that, while serving as a source of linguistic decoding, also reflect the state of anthropological linguistics of the era by not conveying a sense of rhetorical or poetic composition. Sixty years later, noted linguist William Shipley engaged the texts as oral literature and composed a free verse literary translation, which he paired with the artwork of Daniel Stolpe and published in a limited-edition four-volume set that circulated primarily to libraries and private collectors. Here M. Eleanor Nevins and the Weje-ebis (Keep Speaking) Jamani Maidu Language Revitalization Project team illuminate these important tales in a new way by restoring Maidu elements omitted by William Shipley and by bending the translation to more closely correspond in poetic form to the Maidu original. The beautifully told stories by Hanc'ibyjim are accompanied by Stolpe's intricate illustrations and by personal and pedagogical essays from scholars and Maidu leaders working to revitalize the language. The resulting World-Making Stories is a necessity for language revitalization programs and an excellent model of indigenous community-university collaboration" -- from the publisher's website.
Subjects
Note
  • "This book is published as part of the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Call Number
JFF 17-1875
ISBN
  • 1496201558
  • 9781496201553
  • 0803285280
  • 9780803285286
OCLC
962253585
Title
World-making stories : Maidu language and community renewal on a shared California landscape / edited by M. Eleanor Nevins ; with contributions from the Weje-ebis (Keep Speaking) Jamani Maidu Language Revitalization Project, and Tom Young, Roxi Pecnom, Dan Williams, Maym Gallagher, and Kenneth Holbrook ; adapted from translations by William Shipley ; illustrations by Daniel Stolpe.
Publisher
Lincoln, NE : University of Nebraska Press, [2017].
Copyright Date
©2017
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Nevins, M. Eleanor.
Young, Tom, contributor.
Holbrook, Kenneth, contributor.
Shipley, William, 1921-2011.
Stolpe, Daniel Owen, 1939-2018, ill.
Sudoc No.
U5002 T644 -2017 nbdocs
Research Call Number
JFF 17-1875
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