<scp>Robert Bringhurst</scp>, A story as sharp as a knife: The classic Haida mythtellers and their world . Vancouver & Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, 1999. Pp. 527. Hb $45.00; <scp>Robert Bringhurst</scp>, Nine visits to the mythworld: Ghandl of the Qayahl Llaanas . (Masterworks of the Classical Haida Mythtellers, vol. 2.) Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. Pp. 222. Hb $37.95; and <scp>Robert Bringhurst</scp>, Being in being: The collected works of Skaay of the Qquuna Qiighawaay . (Masterworks of the Classical Haida Mythtellers, vol. 3.) Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. Pp. 397. Hb. $35.00

• Published in: Language in Society
• Main Author: Hymes, Dell
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2003
• Subjects: Linguistics and Language; Sociology and Political Science; Language and Linguistics; McIntyre; haida
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404503305056; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0047404503305056

These three volumes invite a volume in return. They bring Haida to the fore of what is known of oral narrative in Native North America. One finds a dedicated philological sleuth, tracking down original texts and unpublished manuscripts (see A story as sharp as a knife , pp. 221–2; Nine visits to the...