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Cargando... Myths and Legends of Alaska (1911)por Katharine Berry Judson
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The myths in this volume are authentic. The original collections were made by government ethnologists, by whose permission this compilation is made. And no effort has been made, in the telling of them, to change them from the terse directness of the natives. Katharine Berry Judson was a professor of history at the University of Washington. She compiled and edited four collections of native myths and tales, including Myths and Legends of the Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes and Old Crow Stories. This work was originally published in 1911. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The myths are written down on the paper just as they would be told around some bonfire, with the language that is plain but very vivid and imaginative at the same time.
I absolutely loved this book and all the fantastic myths in it; I’ve found them to be really interesting, endearing, with a lot of them very cute (like one called “How the Fox became red”) and bringing a smile to my face. It was actually my first contact with the native Alaskan culture and a real enjoyable one. It could only be a bit better if there was some sort of commentary on the stories included in the book, as I missed a more detailed information on culture, region and background of the myths being a novice to Alaska’s heritage. (