4 options
Looking for lost lore : studies in folklore, ethnology, and iconography / George E. Lankford.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lankford, George E., 1938-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of North America--Folklore.
- Indians of North America.
- Indian mythology.
- Social structure--North America.
- Social structure.
- Indians of North America--Social life and customs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (256 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- All students of the past bump into what seem to be impenetrable walls and are left looking longingly beyond the barrier for the lore that seems hopelessly lost. This book is an argument that all that information is not necessarily lost. It may just need a different approach-perhaps multidisciplinary, perhaps a new method, or maybe just with a new hypothesis for testing. Vanished societies have left behind masses of raw data, but it is up to us to discover new ways to look through these windows into the past. Especially in light of the growing relationship-and tensi
- Contents:
- Losing the lore
- A maze of maize myths
- Red and white
- Saying hello in La Florida
- Saying hello in the Mississippi Valley
- "Reysed after there manner"
- Riders in the sky
- Heads and tales
- A hero's life.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-239) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-8106-6
- OCLC:
- 426526616
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.