When you sing it now, just like new : First Nations poetics, voices, and representations / Robin Ridington & Jillian Ridington.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ridington, Robin.

Contributor:

Ridington, Jillian, 1936-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tsattine Indians--British Columbia--Interviews.

Tsattine Indians.

Tsattine Indians--British Columbia--Songs and music.

Tsattine Indians--British Columbia--Social life and customs.

Manners and customs.

British Columbia--Social life and customs.

British Columbia.

Genre:

Interviews.

Physical Description:

xiii, 345 pages. 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2006]

Summary:

When You Sing It Now, Just Like New is a collection of essays about stories: about hearing, sharing, and recording them, and sometimes even becoming characters in them. These essays, which contextualize stories within anthropology, flow from Robin Ridington and Jillian Ridington's decades of work with the Athapaskan-speaking Dane-zaa people, who live in Canada's Peace River area.

The essays in part 1 feature the Ridingtons' audio work as well as Jillian's reflections on her relationships with Dane-zaa women. The authors use a narrative style to lead the reader to an understanding of First Nations' oral and written traditions. The essays in parts 2 and 3 are more scholarly and comparative and draw on ethnographic experience. They speak to one or more theoretical issues and discuss First Nations traditions beyond the Dane-zaa, but always from within the context of shared ethnographic authority. Students of anthropology, folklore, and Native studies can hear samples of audio compositions from the Dane-zaa archive by downloading audio files from the University of Nebraska Press Web site.

Contents:

Part 1 Actualities

1 Memories and Reflections: Learning from Dane-zaa Women / Jillian Ridington 3

2 Hunting for Stories in Sound: Sharing Ethnographic Authority / Jillian Ridington, Robin Ridington 16

3 Soundman: A Guide to Field Broomfield and Stories from the Field / Jillian Ridington, Robin Ridington 28

4 Keynotes from the Dane-zaa: A Guide to In Doig People's Ears / Robin Ridington 50

5 Why Baby Why: A Guide to Howard Broomfield's Documentation of the Dane-zaa Soundscape / Jillian Ridington, Robin Ridington 78

6 Maintaining Dane-zaa Identity: Those Story I Remember, That's What I Live By Now / Jillian Ridington, Robin Ridington 95

7 Contact the People: A Guide to a Video on Dane-zaa Change and Continuity / Jillian Ridington, Robin Ridington 113

Part 2 Poetics and Narrative Technology

8 Models of the Universe: Musings on the Language of Benjamin Lee Whorf / Robin Ridington 127

9 Voice, Representation, and Dialogue: The Poetics of Native American Spiritual Traditions / Robin Ridington 148

10 That Is How They Grab It: Celestial Discourse in Dane-zaa Music and Dance / Robin Ridington 171

11 Dogs, Snares, and Cartridge Belts: The Poetics of a Northern Athapaskan Narrative Technology / Robin Ridington 188

12 Tools in the Mind: Northern Athapaskan Ecology, Religion, and Technology / Robin Ridington 207

Part 3 Re-Creation in First Nations Literatures

13 "You Think It's a Stump but That's My Grandfather": Narratives of Transformation in Northern North America / Robin Ridington 229

14 Fieldwork in Courtroom 53: A Witness to Delgamuukw v. A.G. / Robin Ridington 246

15 Theorizing Coyote's Cannon: Sharing Stories with Thomas King / Robin Ridington 266

16 Happy Trails to You: Contexted Discourse and Indian Removals in Thomas King's Truth and Bright Water / Robin Ridington 288

Appendix Playlist of Audio Actualities and Compositions 317.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [319]-333) and index.

ISBN:

0803239599

0803290098

9780803239593

9780803290099

OCLC:

64510217

Publisher Number:

9780803239593

9780803290099