Badger and Coyote Were Neighbors: Melville Jacobs on Northwest Indian Myths and TalesWilliam R. Seaburg, Pamela Amoss "Story story. For the Clackamas Chinook Indians, these words signaled the end of a myth recital. Melville Jacobs spent a lifetime recording such traditional stories and studying the life ways of those who told them. An anthropologist and folklorist, Jacobs worked to preserve and inerpret the fast-disappearing languages and traditions of the Indian people of Oregon and Washington. This volume presents an introduction to Jacobs's seminal research and provides an engaging selection of myths and tales that he painstakingly collected"--Back cover. |
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Bibliography of Melville Jacobs | 31 |
Toward a Theory and Method of Oral Literature Research | 37 |
Oral Literature 38 | 56 |
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