When You Sing It Now, Just Like New: First Nations Poetics, Voices, and Representations

Ridington, Robin; Ridington, Jillian

ISBN 10: 0803290098 / ISBN 13: 9780803290099

Edité par University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE, 2006

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5-7/8" x 8-7/8", xv + 345pp. Perfect bound book in laminated printed card stock cover. Light shelf wear to the cover; there is a bit of minor creasing at the top of the front cover, and the bottom of the back cover. The book is inscribed by the authors on the title page. The binding is square and tight, and except for the authors' inscription, the pages are clean and bright and unmarked.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: When You Sing It Now, Just Like New: First Nations Poetics, Voices, and Representations
• Éditeur: University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE
• Date de parution: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0803290098
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780803290099
• Reliure: Soft cover
• État de l'article: Very Good
• Signé: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Signed by the Author
  • Cultural Studies - Sociology
  • Indigenenous Studies

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Synopsis

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.

À propos de l?auteur

Robin Ridington is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Trail to Heaven: Knowledge and Narrative in a Northern Native Community and coauthor of Blessing for a Long Time: The Sacred Pole of the Omaha Tribe (Nebraska 2000).

Jillian Ridington is a producer and writer of radio documentaries, many focused on the culture of the Dane-zaa First Nation. She is the coauthor (with Robin Ridington) of People of the Trail: How the Northern Forest Indians Lived.