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Coyote Was Going There Indian Literature of the Oregon Country
by Harold Ramsey
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0295954418
- ISBN 13
- 9780295954417
- Seller
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Des Moines, Iowa, United States
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About This Item
University of Washington Press, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Good. Very good hardcover with three-quarters brown cloth with gilt decorations on boards and black cloth spine with gilt lettering on spine with decorations. 8vo. The reverse side of the dust jacket has age toning and missing pieces to the head and tail of the spine and for edge. Book sellers price mark on the rear of the jacket. Dust jacket has been placed in a protective cover. Not price clipped ($14.95) Tight binding. 1st Edition. B&W photography. Bibliography. Maps. xxxvii, 295 pp.
Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Publisher's blurb from the front flap, "With vivid imagination, robust humor, and profound sense of place, the Indians of Oregon are revealed through hitherto scattered and often inaccessible legends. Jarold Ramsey has compiled these examples of a rich oral tradition from the original transcriptions and translations of such noted scholars as Archie Phinney, Melville Jacobs, and Franz Boas and has arranged the book in six sections, filling the main tribal/ecological regions of Oregon: Northeastern, The Columbia River, the Willamette Valley, the Coast, Southwestern and the Great Basin.
Coyote, the central character, emerges as both mischievous trickster and as transformer- bringing order out of chaos, making the world habitable and useful, establishing practices and customs. Without direct moralistic commentary, the action of the myths dramatically confirms central cultural values: unstinted hospitality, respect for elders, unceasing caution and alertness in all dealings with people and animals, and the importance and dignity of work.
Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Publisher's blurb from the front flap, "With vivid imagination, robust humor, and profound sense of place, the Indians of Oregon are revealed through hitherto scattered and often inaccessible legends. Jarold Ramsey has compiled these examples of a rich oral tradition from the original transcriptions and translations of such noted scholars as Archie Phinney, Melville Jacobs, and Franz Boas and has arranged the book in six sections, filling the main tribal/ecological regions of Oregon: Northeastern, The Columbia River, the Willamette Valley, the Coast, Southwestern and the Great Basin.
Coyote, the central character, emerges as both mischievous trickster and as transformer- bringing order out of chaos, making the world habitable and useful, establishing practices and customs. Without direct moralistic commentary, the action of the myths dramatically confirms central cultural values: unstinted hospitality, respect for elders, unceasing caution and alertness in all dealings with people and animals, and the importance and dignity of work.
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- Bookseller
- The Anthropologists Closet
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2198
- Title
- Coyote Was Going There Indian Literature of the Oregon Country
- Author
- Harold Ramsey
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0295954418
- ISBN 13
- 9780295954417
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press
- Place of Publication
- Seattle
- Date Published
- 1977
- Keywords
- Nez Perce, Cauise, Umatilla, Bannock, Wanapum, Wasco, Wishbram, Tenino-Warm Springs, Chinook, Kalapuya Groups, Molala, Clackamas, Chinook, Clatsop Chinook, Tillamook, Alsea, Coos, Klamath, Modoc, Shasta, Takelma, Tutuni, Umpqua, Bands of the Northern
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