Myths and tales of the southeastern Indians

著者

• Swanton, John Reed

書誌事項

Myths and tales of the southeastern Indians

by John R. Swanton ; introduction by George E. Lankford

University of Oklahoma Press, c1995

注記

Originally published: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Bureau of American Ethnology, 1929

Includes bibliographical references

内容説明・目次

内容説明

First published in 1929, John R. Swanton's Myths and Tales of the Southeastern Indians is a classic of American Indian folklore. During the years 1908-1914 Swanton gathered the myths and legends of the descendants of Muckhogean-speaking peoples living in Texas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma, and in this volume he preserved more than three hundred tales of the Creek, Hitchiti, Alabama, Koasati, and Natchez Indians.Myths and Tales of the Southeastern Indians stands as the largest collection of Muskhogean oral traditions ever published. Included are stores on the origin of corn and tobacco, the deeds of ancient native heroes, visits to the world of the dead, and encounters between people and animals or supernatural beings in animal form. Animal tales abound, especially those on the southeastern trickster Rabbit.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA28018447
• ISBN:
  • 0806127848
• LCCN: 95011004
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Norman
• ページ数/冊数: xix, 275 p.
• 大きさ: 23 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : E78.S65
  • DC20 : 398.2/08997075
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Indians of North America -- Southern States -- Folklore