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The Haida world is a misty archipelago a hundred stormy miles off the coasts of British Columbia and Alaska. For a thousand years and more before the Europeans came, a great culture flourished in these islands. The masterworks of classical Haida sculpture, now enshrined in many of the world's great museums, range from exquisite tiny amulets to magnificent huge housepoles. Classical Haida literature is every bit as various and fine. It extends from tiny jewels crafted by master songmakers to elaborate mythic cycles lasting many hours.

The linguist and ethnographer John Swanton took dictation from the last great Haida-speaking storytellers, poets and historians from the fall of 1900 through the summer of 1901. His Haida hosts and colleagues had been raised in a wholly oral world where the mythic and the personal interpenetrate completely. They joined forces with their visitor, consciously creating a great treasury of Haida oral literature in written form. Poet and linguist Robert Bringhurst has worked for many years with these century-old manuscripts, which have waited until now for the broad recognition they deserve.

Bringhurst brings these works to life in the English language and sets them in a context just as rich as the stories themselves--one that reaches out to dozens of Native American oral literatures, and to mythtelling traditions around the globe.

The world of classical Haida literature is a world as deep as the ocean, as close as the heart and as elusive as the Raven, whose unrepentant laugh persists within it all. This is a tradition brimming with profundity, hilariy and love. It belongs where Bringhurst sees it among the great traditions of the world.

Bringhurst, an acclaimed typographer and book designer, will be redesigning this edition in a beautiful new package.
Robert Bringhurst,A Story as Sharp as a Knife The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World (Masterworks of the Classical Haida Mythtellers),Douglas McIntyre,1553658396,Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends Mythology,Haida Indians,Haida Indians;Folklore.,Haida mythology,Haida mythology.,Haida poetry,Haida poetry;Translations into English.,Legends - British Columbia - Pacific Coast,Canada,Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies,FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends Mythology,Fiction,Folklore,Folklore Mythology,Folklore, myths legends,Folklore/Mythology,GENERAL,General Adult,Literature Folklore/Mythology,Native American,SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies,SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore Mythology,Social Science/Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies,Sociology,Translations into English

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The Haida world is a misty archipelago a hundred stormy miles off the coasts of British Columbia and Alaska. For a thousand years and more before the Europeans came, a great culture flourished in these islands. The masterworks of classical Haida sculpture, now enshrined in many of the world's great museums, range from exquisite tiny amulets to magnificent huge housepoles. Classical Haida literature is every bit as various and fine. It extends from tiny jewels crafted by master songmakers to elaborate mythic cycles lasting many hours.

The linguist and ethnographer John Swanton took dictation from the last great Haida-speaking storytellers, poets and historians from the fall of 1900 through the summer of 1901. His Haida hosts and colleagues had been raised in a wholly oral world where the mythic and the personal interpenetrate completely. They joined forces with their visitor, consciously creating a great treasury of Haida oral literature in written form. Poet and linguist Robert Bringhurst has worked for many years with these century-old manuscripts, which have waited until now for the broad recognition they deserve.

Bringhurst brings these works to life in the English language and sets them in a context just as rich as the stories themselves--one that reaches out to dozens of Native American oral literatures, and to mythtelling traditions around the globe.

The world of classical Haida literature is a world as deep as the ocean, as close as the heart and as elusive as the Raven, whose unrepentant laugh persists within it all. This is a tradition brimming with profundity, hilariy and love. It belongs where Bringhurst sees it among the great traditions of the world.

Bringhurst, an acclaimed typographer and book designer, will be redesigning this edition in a beautiful new package.

Robert Bringhurst,A Story as Sharp as a Knife The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World (Masterworks of the Classical Haida Mythtellers),Douglas McIntyre,1553658396,Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends Mythology,Haida Indians,Haida Indians;Folklore.,Haida mythology,Haida mythology.,Haida poetry,Haida poetry;Translations into English.,Legends - British Columbia - Pacific Coast,Canada,Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies,FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends Mythology,Fiction,Folklore,Folklore Mythology,Folklore, myths legends,Folklore/Mythology,GENERAL,General Adult,Literature Folklore/Mythology,Native American,SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies,SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore Mythology,Social Science/Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies,Sociology,Translations into English

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Product details Series Masterworks of the Classical Haida Mythtellers (Book 1) Paperback 544 pages Publisher Douglas & McIntyre; Second edition (April 1, 2011) Language English ISBN-10 1553658396

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