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Hopi Coyote Tales : Istutuwutsi / Ekkehart Malotki, Michael Lomatuway'ma ; illustrations by Anne-Marie Malotki.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Malotki, Ekkehart, author.
Contributor:
Lomatuway'ma, Michael
Series:
American tribal religions ; v. 9.
American tribal religions ; v. 9
Standardized Title:
Istutuwutsi. English
Language:
Central American Indian (Other)
English
Subjects (All):
Coyote (Mythological character).
Coyote (Mythological character)--Legends.
Coyote.
Hopi Indians--Folklore.
Hopi Indians.
Indians of North America.
Arizona.
Genre:
Fables.
Contes.
Legendes.
Folk tales.
Legends.
Folklore.
Texts
Folklore
Fables
Folk tales
Legends
legends (literary genre)
fables.
folk tales.
Physical Description:
1 online resource: illustrations
Place of Publication:
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [1984]
Summary:
This volume brings together twenty-one traditional tales recently retold by Hopi narrators. Complete with English translations and original Hopi transcriptions on facing pages and a bilingual glossary. Hopi Coyote Tales is important to an understanding of the Hopi language and folklore. To nomadic hunters such as the Navajo, who competed with him on the open range, Coyote was by turns a formidable trickster, a demonic witchperson, and a god. As sedentary planters, the Hopis tended to reduce Coyote to the level of a laughable fool. In these tales Coyote is a friendly bumbler whose mistakes teach listeners what tricks to avoid. Time after time he is hurt or killed for failing to understand a situation correctly. The collection is as amusing as animal fables should be, as simply told, and as instructive. Published as a companion volume to Father Berard Haile's Navajo Coyote Tales, Hopi Coyote Tales is a valuable contribution to cross-cultural studies.
Contents:
Coyote and Porcupine / Iisawniqw Muungyaw
Coyote and Water Serpent / Iisawniqw Paaloloqangw
Coyote and Badger / Iisawniqw Honani
Coyote and the Spiders / Iisawniqw Kookookyangwkt
Coyote and Wren / Iisawniqw Tutsvo
Coyote and the Blue Jays / Iisawniqw A'aat
Coyote and Crow / Iisawniqw Angwusi
Coyote and the Turkeys / Iisawniqw Kokoyongkt
Coyote and Little Bird / Iisawniqw Tsirooya
Coyote and the Bird Girls / Iisawniqw Tsiromamant
Coyote and Grasshopper / Iisawniqw Tootolo
Coyote and Cicada / Iisawniqw Maahu
Coyote and the Cowboy / Iisawniqw Wakaslalayqa
Coyote and the Navajo / Iisawniqw Tasavu
Coyote on a Salt Expedition / Iisaw Ongmokto
Coyote and Pavayoykyasi / Iisawniqw Pavayoykyasi
The Coyote Chain / Ii'ist Naahahayya
Coyote Learns Sorcery / Iisaw Powaqvaki
Coyote and the So'yoko Ogre / Iisawniqw So'yoko
Coyote and the Korowiste Kachinas / Iisaw Korowistemuy Walpeq Tsamva
Coyote Boy Marries a Girl from Musangnuvi / Iistiyo Musangnupnomata.
Notes:
Description based on print version record.
ISBN:
1-4962-4517-2
OCLC:
1534702450
Access Restriction:
Open Access Unrestricted online access

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