The Collected Works of Edward Sapir. Volume XIV, Northwest California Linguistics / Victor Golla, Sean O'Neill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sapir, Edward, author.

Contributor:

Golla, Victor, editor.

O'Neill, Sean, editor.

Series:

Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939. 1990 ; Works. 14.

The Collected Works of Edward Sapir ; Volume XIV

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--California, Northern--Languages.

Indians of North America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1124 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2010

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2010]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume contains Sapir's full edition of Hupa texts, with complete linguistic and textual annotations. The texts are accompanied by an analytic lexicon - a complete inventory of all stems and derivational bases contained in the corpus - and a detailed ethnographic glossary.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Frontispiece

Preface

Introduction

Hupa Texts, with Notes and Lexicon

Contents

Key to the Orthography

Alphabetical Order

I. CEREMONIES

1. The White Deerskin Dance (Sam Brown)

2. The Jump Dance (Sam Brown)

3. The Origin of the Jump Dance (Mary Marshall)

4. The Origin of the Misq'id Jump Dance (Jake Hostler)

5. The Acorn Feast (Sam Brown)

6. The First Salmon Ceremony (John Shoemaker)

7. The Origin of the First Salmon Ceremony (John Shoemaker)

8. Bathing the Rain Rock at Sugar Bowl (John Shoemaker)

9. Formula for Bathing the Rain Rock (John Shoemaker)

10. The Flower Dance (Sam Brown)

11. The Origin of the Flower Dance (Sam Brown)

12. The Brush Dance (Sam Brown)

II. TRADITIONAL LIFE

13. How to Treat Babies (Emma Frank)

14. Traditional Standards of Beauty (Emma Frank)

15. Tattooing (Sam Brown)

16. Rules of Etiquette (Emma Frank)

17. How to Ensure a Long Life (Sam Brown)

18. Insults and Bad Behavior (Sam Brown)

19. A Jump Dance Sermon (Sam Brown)

20. When there is a Death (Sam Brown)

21. How to Gather and Prepare Acorns (Sam Brown)

22. How Basketry Roots are Gathered and Baskets Woven (Sam Brown)

23. How to Handle Firewood in the Old-Fashioned Way (Emma Frank)

III. DOCTORING AND THE SPIRIT WORLD

24. How I Became a Doctor (Emma Frank)

25. Emma Frank's Method of Doctoring (Emma Frank)

26. How Silis Became a Doctor (Sam Brown)

27. Silis' Vision of Hell (Sam Brown)

28. Silis Loses and Finds her Pipe (Sam Brown)

29. The Kick Dance (Sam Brown)

30. How I Became Fond of Kick Dancing (Sam Brown)

31. K'yiłwe· Sickness is Taken Out (Sam Brown)

32. Hunting Magic and Prayers for Deer (Sam Brown)

33. A Vision of Sam Brown's (Sam Brown)

34. Power Over the Grizzly Bear (Sam Brown)

35. Training for Striking Fear into the Grizzly Bear (Sam Brown)

36. The Afterworld (Sam Brown)

IV. MEDICINE FORMULAS

Introductory Note

37. To Cure Vomit and Passing of Blood (Emma Frank)

38. For Sickness (Jake Hostler)

39. For a Menstruating Woman to Shorten her Period (Emma Frank)

40. Pronounced over a Child to make him Wealthy and Brave (Emma Frank)

41. To Purify one who has Handled a Corpse (John Shoemaker)

42. To Induce Forgiveness (Mary Marshall)

43. For War (Sam Brown)

44. The Ugly Dog, a Medicine Formula for Love (John Shoemaker)

45. A Woman's Love Medicine for Getting a Man (Emma Frank)

46. A Man's Love Medicine (Emma Frank)

47. For a Man who Desires Wealth and Success in Love (John Shoemaker)

48. For Wealth (John Shoemaker)

49. The Dawn Maiden (Sam Brown)

50. Big Dentalia Comes to the Redwood People (Mary Marshall)

V. PRAYERS

51. Prayer for Good Luck (Emma Frank)

52. Prayer to the Sun (Emma Frank)

53. Prayer in Going Over the Trails in the Mountains (Emma Frank)

54. Prayer to the Acorn Feast Ground of Hostler Ranch (Sam Brown)

55. Prayer to Yimantiwʔwinyay's Resting Place (Sam Brown)

56. A Night Prayer (John Shoemaker)

VI. MYTHS AND TALES

57. Salmon's Grandmother (Sam Brown)

58. Salmon's Grandmother and Timber Robin (Sam Brown)

59. Water Dog and Acorn Worm (Sam Brown)

60. Iris and Panther (Oscar Brown)

61. Coyote and Frog (Emma Frank)

62. Three Tales of Little Woodpecker (Emma Frank)

63. Salmon-Trout is Doctored by Bluejay and Hummingbird (Jake Hostler)

64. A Story of the South Wind (Sam Brown)

65. The Lake Whale (Sam Brown)

66. The Rival Wives (Mary Marshall)

67. The Two Brothers (John Shoemaker)

68. The One who Established a Medicine at Miyimida q'id, and his Grandmother (Emma Frank)

69. The Hated Suitor (Jake Hostler)

VII. LEGENDS AND TRADITIONAL HISTORY

70. How Ear Aches Started at Meʔdildiŋ (Sam Brown)

71. The Acorn Provider Saves Weitchpec (Sam Brown)

72. Two Young Men Do Indian Deviling (Jake Hostler)

73. The Village that Blasphemed (Sam Brown)

74. How a Man was Destroyed at New River (Sam Brown)

75. How a Tattooed-Face Stole a Woman (John Shoemaker)

76. The Chimariko Attack a Hupa Village (Sam Brown)

77. A War Between the Hupa and Yurok (Sam Brown)

LINGUISTIC NOTES TO THE TEXTS 1.1. - 15.12.

LINGUISTIC NOTES TO THE TEXTS 15.13. - 36.4.

LINGUISTIC NOTES TO THE TEXTS 36.5. - 63.18.

LINGUISTIC NOTES TO THE TEXTS 63.19. - 77.132.

ANALYTIC LEXICON

Element List (with Sean O'Neill). Part I

Element List (with Sean O'Neill). Part II

Morphological Outline

ETHNOGRAPHIC LEXICON

General Glossary. Part I

General Glossary. Part II

Kinship Terminology

Yurok Texts (edited by Howard Berman)

Chimariko Linguistic Material (edited by Howard Berman)

Appendix: Reports on Sapir's Northwest California Work Letters from the field to A. L. Kroeber

Letters to J.P. Harrington regarding work on Chimariko

An Expedition to Ancient America

A Summary Report of Field Work among the Hupa, Summer 1927

Reminiscences about Edward Sapir (Fang-Kuei Li)

References

Index

Backmatter

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages [1101]-1111) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9783110879803

3110879808

OCLC:

979849543