Native American Oral Traditions
This collection provides a benchmark that helps secure the position of collaboration between Native American and non-Native American scholars in the forefront of study of Native oral traditions. Seven sets of intercultural authors present Native American oral texts with commentary, exploring dimensi...
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ftutahsudc:oai:digitalcommons.usu.edu:usupress_pubs-1052 2023-05-15T15:09:47+02:00 Native American Oral Traditions Evers, Larry Toelken, Barre 2001-01-01T08:00:00Z application/pdf https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/usupress_pubs/78 https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1052&context=usupress_pubs unknown Utah State University Press https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/usupress_pubs/78 https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1052&context=usupress_pubs Copyright: Utah State University Press, http://www.usu.edu/usupress/. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owner. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user. PDM All USU Press Publications Native American Oral Traditions collaboration and Interpretation Indigenous Studies text 2001 ftutahsudc 2022-03-07T21:04:00Z This collection provides a benchmark that helps secure the position of collaboration between Native American and non-Native American scholars in the forefront of study of Native oral traditions. Seven sets of intercultural authors present Native American oral texts with commentary, exploring dimensions of perspective, discovery, and meaning that emerge through collaborative translation and interpretation. The texts studied all come from the American West but include a rich variety of material, since their tribal sources range from the Yupik in the Arctic to the Yaqui in the Sonoran Desert. This presentation of jointly authored work is timely: it addresses increasing interest in, calls for, and movement toward reflexivity in the relationships between scholars and the Native communities they study, and it responds to the renewed commitment in those communities to asserting more control over representations of their traditions. Although Native and academic communities have long tried to work together in the study of culture and literature, the relationship has been awkward and imbalanced toward the academics. In many cases, the contributions of Native assistants, informants, translators, and field workers to the work of professional ethnographers has been inadequately credited, ignored, or only recently uncovered. Native Americans usually have not participated in planning and writing such projects. Native American Oral Traditions provides models for overcoming such obstacles to interpreting and understanding Native oral literature in relation to the communities and cultures from which it comes. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/usupress_pubs/1052/thumbnail.jpg Text Arctic Yupik Utah State University: DigitalCommons@USU Arctic |
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This collection provides a benchmark that helps secure the position of collaboration between Native American and non-Native American scholars in the forefront of study of Native oral traditions. Seven sets of intercultural authors present Native American oral texts with commentary, exploring dimensions of perspective, discovery, and meaning that emerge through collaborative translation and interpretation. The texts studied all come from the American West but include a rich variety of material, since their tribal sources range from the Yupik in the Arctic to the Yaqui in the Sonoran Desert. This presentation of jointly authored work is timely: it addresses increasing interest in, calls for, and movement toward reflexivity in the relationships between scholars and the Native communities they study, and it responds to the renewed commitment in those communities to asserting more control over representations of their traditions. Although Native and academic communities have long tried to work together in the study of culture and literature, the relationship has been awkward and imbalanced toward the academics. In many cases, the contributions of Native assistants, informants, translators, and field workers to the work of professional ethnographers has been inadequately credited, ignored, or only recently uncovered. Native Americans usually have not participated in planning and writing such projects. Native American Oral Traditions provides models for overcoming such obstacles to interpreting and understanding Native oral literature in relation to the communities and cultures from which it comes. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/usupress_pubs/1052/thumbnail.jpg |
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