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Orature Captured in Print Randy Bouchard and Dorothy Kennedy Indian Myths and Legends from the North Pacific Coast of America. Talonbooks $65.00
It is easy to forget that Franz Boas, the father of modern North American anthropology, was once a young man with an uncertain future. In 1886, at the age of 28, he embarked on his first field trip to British Columbia. As a self-funded researcher, his budget was tight and his time limited. Nonetheless his early field trips to BC in 1886, 1888, 1889, and 1890 yielded 250 narratives in 15 First Nations languages. These findings were published in German scholarly journals in the early 1890s, and in 1895 were gathered and republished by Boas in a single volume, Indianische Sagen von der Nord-Pacifischien Küste Amerikas. Indian Myths and Legends from the North Pacific Coast of America is the first English translation of Boas' complete Indianische Sagen.
Without doubt, the publication of this scholarly English language edition of...