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A Story as Sharp as a Knife: The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World (Masterworks of the Classical Haida Mythtellers)
A Story as Sharp as a Knife The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World - Masterworks of the Classical Haida Mythtellers
Author: Robert Bringhurst
The Haida world is a misty archipelago a hundred stormy miles off the coasts of British Columbia and Alaska. For more than a thousand years before the Europeans came, a great culture flourished on these islands. In 1900 and 1901 the linguist and ethnographer John Swanton took dictation from the last traditional Haida-speaking storytellers, poets...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780803213142
ISBN-10: 080321314X
Publication Date: 11/1/2000
Pages: 527
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Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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