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VG/VG ex-lib copy. Associated library sticker and markings on book/Dj. Dj has color fading along spine. Black boards with gilt lettering. Orange dj with illustration. Clear mylar cover. ix, 644 pages. Contents: ntroduction / The editors--When artifacts speak, what can they tell us? / Paul G. Zolbrod--Anthologies and narrators / Dell Hymes--Heidegger and the Aztecs: the poetics of knowing in pre-Hispanic Nahuatl poetry / Willard Gingerich--Post-structuralism and oral literature / Arnold Krupat--North American Indian mythography: editing texts for the printed page / Anthony Mattina--Strategies in text and context: the hot pepper story / Joel Sherzer--Pima heaven songs / Donald Bahr--A note on translation and remarks on collaboration / Brian Swann--Bluejay and his sister / M. Dale Kinkade--Telling the tale: a performance analysis of a Hopi coyote story / Andrew Wiget--The natural history of old man coyote / William Bright. Life and death in the Navajo coyote tales / Barre Toelken--Wesucechak becomes a deer and steals language: an anecdotal linguistics concerning the Swampy Cree Trickster / Howard Norman--How the bird that speaks Lakota earned a name / Julian Rice--Traditional Osage naming ceremonies: entering the circle of being / Carter Revard--Walking the world of the Popol Vuh / Dennis Tedlock--Chief Seattle's speech(es): American origins and European reception / Rudolph Kaiser--Sam Blowsnake's confessions: Crashing thunder and the history of American Indian autobiography / H. David Brumble III--On stereotypes / Duane Niatum--Bringing home the fact: tradition and continuity in the imagination / Paula Gunn Allen--Native American novels: homing in / William Bevis.