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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-10
0520080076
ISBN-13
9780520080072
eBay Product ID (ePID)
948267
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
214 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Keeping Slug Woman Alive : a Holistic Approach to American Indian Texts
Publication Year
1993
Subject
Storytelling, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Folklore & Mythology, American / General, Linguistics / General, Native American
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Performing Arts, Language Arts & Disciplines, Social Science, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
12.8 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
92-001680
Dewey Edition
20
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An interesting addition to the growing body of literature about America's indigenous peoples, their cultures and their literatures--written and otherwise.
Dewey Decimal
398.2089975
Table Of Content
Prologue: Peeling Potatoes PART ONE. LESSONS FROM MABEL MCKAY: THE ORAL EXPERIENCE 1. The Verbal Art of Mabel McKay: Talk as Culture Contact and Cultural Critique 2. The Woman Who Loved a Snake: Orality in Mabel McKay's Stories PART TWO. ABOUT POMO BASKETS AND SECRET CULTS: CULTURAL PHENOMENA 3. A Culture under Glass: The Porno Basket 4. Telling Dreams and Keeping Secrets: The Bole Maru as American Indian Religious Resistance PART THREE. HEARING THE OLD ONES TALK: THE LITERATE EXPERIENCE 5. Reading Narrated American Indian Lives: Elizabeth Colson's Autobiographies of Three Pomo Women 6. Reading Louise Erdrich: Love Medicine as Home Medicine PART FOUR. KEEPING SLUG WOMAN ALIVE: CLASSROOM PRACTICES 7. Storytelling in the Classroom: Crossing Vexed Chasms 8. Keeping Slug Woman Alive: The Challenge of Reading in a Reservation Classroom Works Cited Index
Synopsis
This remarkable collection of eight essays offers a rare perspective on the issue of cross-cultural communication. Greg Sarris is concerned with American Indian texts, both oral and written, as well as with other American Indian cultural phenomena such as basketry and religion. His essays cover a range of topics that include orality, art, literary criticism, and pedagogy, and demonstrate that people can see more than just "what things seem to be." Throughout, he asks: How can we read across cultures so as to encourage communication rather than to close it down? Sarris maintains that cultural practices can be understood only in their living, changing contexts. Central to his approach is an understanding of storytelling, a practice that embodies all the indeterminateness, structural looseness, multivalence, and richness of culture itself. He describes encounters between his Indian aunts and Euro-American students and the challenge of reading in a reservation classroom; he brings the reports of earlier ethnographers out of museums into the light of contemporary literary and anthropological theory. Sarris's perspective is exceptional: son of a Coast Miwok/Pomo father and a Jewish mother, he was raised by Mabel McKay--a renowned Cache Creek Pomo basketweaver and medicine woman--and by others, Indian and non-Indian, in Santa Rosa, California. Educated at Stanford, he is now a university professor and recently became Chairman of the Federated Coast Miwok tribe. His own story is woven into these essays and provides valuable insights for anyone interested in cross-cultural communication, including educators, theorists of language and culture, and general readers., This remarkable collection of eight essays offers a rare perspective on the issue of cross-cultural communication. Greg Sarris is concerned with American Indian texts, both oral and written, as well as with other American Indian cultural phenomena such as basketry and religion. His essays cover a range of topics that include orality, art, literary criticism, and pedagogy, and demonstrate that people can see more than just "what things seem to be." Throughout, he asks: How can we read across cultures so as to encourage communication rather than to close it down? Sarris maintains that cultural practices can be understood only in their living, changing contexts. Central to his approach is an understanding of storytelling, a practice that embodies all the indeterminateness, structural looseness, multivalence, and richness of culture itself. He describes encounters between his Indian aunts and Euro-American students and the challenge of reading in a reservation classroom; he brings the reports of earlier ethnographers out of museums into the light of contemporary literary and anthropological theory. Sarris's perspective is exceptional: son of a Coast Miwok/Pomo father and a Jewish mother, he was raised by Mabel McKay-a renowned Cache Creek Pomo basketweaver and medicine woman-and by others, Indian and non-Indian, in Santa Rosa, California. Educated at Stanford, he is now a university professor and recently became Chairman of the Federated Coast Miwok tribe. His own story is woven into these essays and provides valuable insights for anyone interested in cross-cultural communication, including educators, theorists of language and culture, and general readers.
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