Hupa Texts - Couverture souple

Goddard, Pliny Earle

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1428629580 ISBN 13 : 9781428629585

Editeur : Kessinger Publishing, 2006

Synopsis

Hupa Texts is a book that contains a collection of traditional stories and myths of the Hupa people, a Native American tribe that resides in northern California. The book was compiled and edited by Pliny Earle Goddard, an American anthropologist who conducted extensive research on the Hupa culture in the early 20th century.The Hupa Texts book contains a total of 57 stories, which were originally recorded in the Hupa language and then translated into English by Goddard. The stories cover a wide range of topics, including creation myths, animal tales, and legends of famous Hupa heroes and heroines. Many of the stories are accompanied by detailed notes and commentary by Goddard, providing additional context and insight into the Hupa culture and worldview.Overall, Hupa Texts is a valuable resource for anyone interested in Native American folklore and mythology, as well as for scholars and researchers studying the Hupa culture. The book provides a fascinating glimpse into the rich oral tradition of the Hupa people and their unique perspective on the world around them.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.

Présentation de l'éditeur

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. This text refers to the Bibliobazaar edition.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kessinger Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1428629580
• ISBN 13: 9781428629585
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 296
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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