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The Eskimo storyteller : folktales from Noatak, Alaska  Cover Image Book Book

The Eskimo storyteller : folktales from Noatak, Alaska / Edwin S. Hall, Jr. ; drawings by Claire Fejes.

Summary:

"Although more than twenty years have passed since it first appeared, nothing has come close to supplanting The Eskimo Storyteller: Folktales from Noatak, Alaska as an authoritative account of the narrative history of place and people in northwestern Alaska. Anthropologist Edwin S. Hall, Jr., provides in this text a careful and gracefully written compendium of the significant stories as they were known in the village of Noatak during the early 1960s, plus offering a full context for the stories and their tellers. Nationally known Alaska artist Claire Fejes provided illumination for the material with elegant line drawings, informed by her own time among the people of the Noatak."--Jacket.

Record details

  • ISBN: 188996302X
  • ISBN: 9781889963020
  • Physical Description: xi, 491 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
  • Edition: 1998 pbk. ed.
  • Publisher: Fairbanks, Alaska : University of Alaska Press, 1998.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Originally published: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 1975.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 459-464) and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note:
I. The Setting. The Land. The People. The Eskimos of Northwest Alaska. The Naupaktomiut and Their Neighbors. An Ethnographic Reconstruction. The Historic Noatak People. The Modern People -- II. The Noatak Storyteller. Introduction. The Storytellers. The Telling of Stories. In the Past. In the Present. Organization of Data -- III. Edna Hunnicutt. Autobiography. Folktales -- IV. Paul Monroe. Autobiography. Folktales -- V. Analysis. Collection of Folktales. Telling of Stories. Where and When. Sequence. Vocal and Visual Mannerisms. Exact and Complete Recitation. Distribution of the Noatak Tales. Distribution within Northern Alaska. Types and Motifs. Distribution through Time. Literary Conventions. Story Content. Individual, Family, and Society. Crime and Punishment. The Natural and Supernatural World. Story Endings. Folktales and Noatak Eskimo Culture. Conclusions -- VI. Epilogue.
Subject: Eskimos > Alaska > Noatak > Folklore.
Tales > Alaska > Noatak.
Inuits > Alaska > Noatak > Folklore.
Contes > Alaska > Noatak.
Eskimos.
Tales.
Alaska > Noatak.
Genre: Folklore.
Folklore.

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Homer Public Library AK 398.2089 HAL (Text) 000171926 Alaskana -- Nonfiction Available -


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