Keeping Slug Woman Alive A Holistic Approach to American Indian Texts

Name: Keeping Slug Woman Alive A Holistic Approach to American Indian Texts
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ISBN: 9780520080072

ISBN-10: 0520080076

ISBN-13: 9780520080072

Edition: 1994

Authors: Greg Sarris

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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…

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List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 8/5/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 214
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Prologue: Peeling Potatoes



The Verbal Art of Mabel McKay: Talk as Culture Contact and Cultural Critique



The Woman Who Loved a Snake: Orality in Mabel McKay's Stories



A Culture under Glass: The Pomo Basket



Telling Dreams and Keeping Secrets: The Bole Maru as American Indian Religious Resistance



Reading Narrated American Indian Lives: Elizabeth Colson's Autobiographies of Three Pomo Women



Reading Louise Erdrich: Love Medicine as Home Medicine



Storytelling in the Classroom: Crossing Vexed Chasms



Keeping Slug Woman Alive: The Challenge of Reading in a Reservation Classroom


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